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Lidian
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An Uncommon Victorian Woman: Sarah Price, Oculist
Sarah Price was a professional optician in Brooklyn from about 1835 to the 1870s, at which point her daughter, Sarah (Price)...
 
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Eunice Beecher, the Wilsonia Corset, and the Poor Woman of Tillary Street
Eunice Beecher was 69 years old in the summer of 1881, the Massachusetts-born wife of the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher -...
 
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Wonderful Town (Random Views of A Place Called Home)
The Manhattan Bridge which caused the Reeds to move from Roebling Street, Brooklyn in 1903 - their house was one of the ones...