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Miss Hazeltine's Christmas Number
The Virtual Dime Museum | December 23rd 2009 by Lidian
Miss Julia Anne Scott Hazeltine was certain that the city editor at the Brooklyn Daily Eagle was going to be so grateful - so pleased! As a matter of fact, it would be one of the nicest Christmas presents anyone would be receiving in all of Brooklyn read more
Edmund and the Christmas Chickens
The Virtual Dime Museum | December 20th 2009 by Lidian
It was December of 1851, and a boy named Edmund Griffin was walking past a market on Columbia Street in Brooklyn, when he saw something that made him stop right there and make a bold action. There, outside the market, were three chickens - plucked c read more
A Christmas Orange
The Virtual Dime Museum | December 18th 2009 by Lidian
When my grandmother was a little girl in Brooklyn in the early 1890s, the best thing in her Christmas stocking (which really was a long red stocking, one of a pair that she wore sometimes - I have them now) - was the orange in the toe, way at the bot read more
The Inexhaustible Cow
The Virtual Dime Museum | November 18th 2009 by Lidian
One of the many attractions at Coney Island in the late 19th century was a tireless mechanical wooden cow which dispensed glasses of milk, served by costumed dairy maids, who unfortunately cannot been seen in this charming late-Victorian stereograph read more
The Mysteries of Mme. Du Vall
The Virtual Dime Museum | August 3rd 2009 by Lidian
Mme Du Vall of 655 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, was the greatest medium in the city in the late 1890s. Of course, so were all of her competitors, but no matter.Another of Mme. Du Vall's ads tells the reader that she is the Mary Poppins of mediums, with n read more
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