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The Female Snare Drummer
"Silence in both cases a negative."Well, I should think so! The Berger Family Bell Ringers, late of this post and many other...

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Celebrated Duplex Elliptic Spring Skirts
When you wear one of these you don't just have a spring in your step. You have it in your outfit, too! They are "the most...

2 days ago

The Virtual Dime Museum | Topics: women's..., Victorian..., Godey's Lady's..., 1860s ads

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"A Popular Soubrette": Marion Elmore
Marion Elmore was born in 1860 in a tent in Sandhurst, Australia, to English-born Barnett and Julia Elmore, who were in...

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The Virtual Dime Museum | Topics: Theatre..., Victorian..., Victorian Popular..., Losee

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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...

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New Tailor System, 1885
Professor Moody and his disembodied hands had a nice New Tailoring System for the ladies back in 1885.Now since he is the late...

9 days ago

The Virtual Dime Museum | Topics: Victorian..., 1880s ads, Victorian..., Canadian ads

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Berger Family Bell Ringers
Here are the Berger Family Bell Ringers in an 1870 ad from the New York Clipper.Bell-ringing choirs were quite popular in the...

11 days ago

The Virtual Dime Museum | Topics: Theatre..., Victorian..., Victorian..., Vaudeville

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The Halloween Pill
All Hallows' Eve in the 1890s in New York was a time when boys played pranks out in the streets (more on this later in the...

21 days ago

The Virtual Dime Museum | Topics: dreams, Victorian..., Victorian..., dream...

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The Ghost Of Melrose Hall; or, the Prisoner and the Playwright
This is the story of two women: one was the most famous ghost in Flatbush, and the other spent five of her happiest years in...

22 days ago

The Virtual Dime Museum | Topics: Theatre..., Victorian..., Victorian..., Brooklyn...

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La Belle Oceana
Meet dancer, actress and acrobat Oceana Italia Judah, the "Circus Star" cover girl of the March 15, 1885 edition of the New...

23 days ago

The Virtual Dime Museum | Topics: Theatre..., Victorian..., vintage..., Victorian Popular...

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The Black Mirror
It's almost November, and for me (since 2006) that means it's National Novel Writing Month. I've put the widget in my...

26 days ago

The Virtual Dime Museum | Topics: Victorian True..., Victorian..., Writing..., NaNoWriMo

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The Greenwood Mock Marriages, Part 2
Fannie Breakspear had a secret, one that never made it into the newspapers. I don't know whether Walter, Fred and Viola knew...

29 days ago

The Virtual Dime Museum | Topics: women's..., Victorian..., Greenwood..., Brooklyn...

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