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Posts Tagged: 1800s

  • February 26, 2013

    Billy the Kid

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Billy the Kid, born William Henry McCarty Jr.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • October 30, 2012

    The Sly Fox Sisters

    BY Claire Lucido

    Kate and Maggie Fox fooled their mother. Then they fooled Hydesville, NY.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • October 29, 2012

    The Last Letter of Thomas Hiliker

    BY Claire Lucido

    “The jury deliberated for about ten minutes, during which time Hiliker was in great agitation.

    FROM:Dear Diary

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  • September 10, 2012

    Magdalene Laundries

    BY Claire Lucido

    The Magdalene Laundries were convents for “fallen women” all over Britain, Europe, America, Canada and Australia — the first of which was founded in 1765 in Dublin, Ireland.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • June 13, 2012

    Emma Girls

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Emma Willard School in Troy, NY was founded in 1814 by Emma Willard in an effort to provide girls with the same  level of education as boys.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • April 20, 2012

    My Daguerreotype Teenager

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    The daguerrotype was the first commercially successful photographic process that immortalized many types at the turn of the century.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • March 13, 2012

    Mill Girl Murder

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    From the 1830s-1850s young women in their late teens to early twenties flocked to New England to work in factories.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • October 5, 2011

    Teen Bronte

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Years before Jane Eyre was bestselling, 13 year old Charlotte Bronte amused herself making miniature books, complete with stories, poetry and imagined literary criticism.

    FROM:Teen Reads

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  • July 13, 2011

    Black Britain: A Photographic History

    BY Abigail Wilson

    Left: ‘A young dandy wearing a formal suit and Top hat, circa 1890’ Right: ‘Conroy Campbell, a pupil at Willesden High school, 1973’

    I just rediscovered this book; Stuart Hall and Paul Gilroy put it together in 2007.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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