My Life as an Almost Adult.
-Grad Student. Animal Lover. History buff-
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You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.Eleanor Roosevelt -
Photo reblogged from Today's Document
Shortly after Harriet Beecher Stowe published “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” or “Life Among the Lowly,” F.W. Thomas, the editor of a German newspaper in Philadelphia, began translating the work and publishing it in installments - without paying the requisite royalties. Stowe and her husband sued in the Federal court in Philadelphia, and Mrs. Stowe submitted a deposition describing her authorship, filed on March 11, 1853.
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Video reblogged from Edwardian Era
Earliest Dickens film - The Death of Poor Joe (1901)
This recent rediscovery is believed to be the earliest surviving film inspired by the work of Charles Dickens, in this case the character of Jo the crossing sweep from ‘Bleak House’. ‘The Death of Poor Joe’ was almost certainly made by pioneer filmmaker G.A. Smith and predates his 1901 adaptation of ‘A Christmas Carol’, ‘Scrooge, or Marley’s Ghost’. -
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Canadian Women’s Army Corps member on Valentine’s Day 1944.
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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.Theodore Roosevelt
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This is fantastic!!!!
~ The Chicago Blue Book, 1908
via Internet Archive
A female private detective in 1908? Miss Cora M. Strayer, I lift my glass to you. I’ll bet you were an interesting person to know.
Note: Apparently Mr. Geo. S. Holben, Supt. Criminal Dept., was shot by a disgruntled former employee in 1910. (Los Angeles Herald, December 06, 1910).According to the 1913 edition of the Chicago Blue Book, Miss. Strayer’s Detective Agency was still in business, although Mr. Holben’s name no longer appeared in the advertisement.
(Source: questionableadvice)
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Photoset reblogged from Cool Chicks from History
January 27th is International Holocaust Remembrance Day
The Remember Me? Project
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum has over 1,000 photos of children displaced by World War II which they are trying to connect to survivors. The Museum hopes to collect stories about these children and their post-war lives. A small number of photos have been connected to survivors already.
The six girls pictured above have not yet been found: Jeanine Cohen, Rosa Berenblum, Micheline Suhami, Mathilde Erlich, Miryam Dzialowski, and Eva Steiner.
