Topic: Victorian Oddities
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Lidian posted a blog entry
A Stroke Of Bad Fortune
A Victorian fortune, not in a cookie but a gum wrapper. The first patent for commercially produced chewing gum in the US dates...
A Victorian fortune, not in a cookie but a gum wrapper. The first patent for commercially produced chewing gum in the US dates...
8 days ago
The Virtual Dime Museum
| Topics: Victorian..., Victorian..., Victorian Popular..., Victorian...
The Virtual Dime Museum
| Topics: Victorian..., Victorian..., Victorian Popular..., Victorian...Lidian posted a blog entry
How To Conduct An Experiment in 1884
Object of testing: to determine whether the Harden Hand Grenade Fire Extinguisher (see here for the original post) would be...
Object of testing: to determine whether the Harden Hand Grenade Fire Extinguisher (see here for the original post) would be...
Lidian posted a blog entry
Mexican Mustang Liniment
Here's another all-healing Victorian wonder medicine, this time from the early 1850s, called Mexican Mustang Liniment. The...
Here's another all-healing Victorian wonder medicine, this time from the early 1850s, called Mexican Mustang Liniment. The...
Lidian posted a blog entry
The Harden Hand Grenade Fire Extinguisher, 1884
While I am working on some more Victorian true-crime and ghost stories, here is a startling ad (just one of many) from an 1884...
While I am working on some more Victorian true-crime and ghost stories, here is a startling ad (just one of many) from an 1884...
33 days ago
The Virtual Dime Museum
| Topics: Victorian..., Scientific..., Victorian..., Old Advertisements and...
The Virtual Dime Museum
| Topics: Victorian..., Scientific..., Victorian..., Old Advertisements and...Lidian posted a blog entry
Daguerreotype Hats
Here is another sort of novelty from the New York Clipper of 1853 - hatters with an extra incentive for their customers: a free...
Here is another sort of novelty from the New York Clipper of 1853 - hatters with an extra incentive for their customers: a free...
