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!
Fragmented 19th Century Notes on Arts and Commerce
A miscellany of snippets covers porcelain color samples, fashion gifts like silver jewelry for bridesmaids, and a London theater curtain. It also reports on fox sightings, Swiss capital punishment changes, rapid photography, Jerusalem lighting plans, Mount Vernon library leadership, a massive San Francisco vault, grafting skin, a Fort Worth knife duel halt, a naval dog detector, ring wearers cutting glove fingers, and manufacturing pins and pearls of ancient artifacts.