This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Missing Links and Oddities From the Old World
A crowded miscellany notes physicians' deaths, Indian land, nails in fish, French quills, long-lived London resident Jane Scrimshaw, a vast French Congo, an electric ship instrument, Myron Wilson’s giant frame, high libel verdicts, changes in the British bushel, an Arundel County bull, a Dexter loan with diamond interest, a giant camellia, dueling sermons, mussel poisoning, tea preferences by region, a jeweler's trunk wish, a thornless raspberry, Tibetan Jangya copies, tai fish bones, curious insect anatomy, Volga famine dwellers, colored churches collecting, Australia sheep growth, camel skins to New York, old court mask games, Austrian execution, snow warmth myth, and electric forehead curling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
France
Paris
Jane Scrimshaw
London
Elizabeth
Anne
Congo
General Serrell
New York
Myron Wilson
Whittingham
Detroit
Harvajeee
Arundel County
Maryland
Birming
England
Ledbury
Lovera
Terra del Fuego
New England
Middle States
South
Northwest
Canada
Japan
Britton
New York City
Hugh
West Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station
Randolph County
Virginia
British Museum
Volga
United States
Australia
Normandie
Aden
Morocco
Katucerinberg