Here is one more fun Victorian ad, a placeholder until I get back from holiday and start up some proper posts again. I have got so much to write about and tell you about this fall! I have a new armload of Victorian cookbooks and women's books, a boatload of old advertisements - and a Victorian photo album that I have to be mysterious about for now, but might be historically rather interesting...I got it at an antique store as a teenager but never researched it. Well, now is the time, 30 years later!
In addition, there is the matter of David Barnett's secret - at least I am pretty sure that he had one, and that I have figured out what it was. I also want to tell you the story of C.W. Morgan, a Hicks cousin and the Sherman McCoy of 1901 (as in Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities).
There will also be plenty of historical true crime, Brooklyn and New York City history, and Victorian medicinals. I'm looking forward to it, and to the weather getting a little cooler (very medicinal for the brain, I think!).
This ad is from an 1880s Godey's Lady's Book. It is just what I need for my home office.
Regular programming to resume in a couple of days!
1 comments:
Hi, and welcome to the entrecard droppers! I can't wait to read about your future posts, sounds really interesting. Entrecard has so many wonderful blogs on all different subjects, and it has brought a lot of exposure to my blog as well, so I think you will be very happy.
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