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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
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 Coney Island Bowery
The Virtual Dime Museum | November 4th 2009 by Lidian
The Bowery at Coney Island was a plank street laid out in 1882 by George C. Tilyou, one of the pioneer developers of Coney Island as a summer resort and amusement complex. It was named for the Bowery, the oldest street in Manhattan - which by the 1 read more
Gunzer's Ghost
The Virtual Dime Museum | October 7th 2009 by Lidian
Henry Dierking was a 25 year old grocer with a business at 813 Park Avenue, Brooklyn, when he married wealthy widow Appolonia Gunzer after a whirlwind courtship of a month and a half.Appolonia's late husband John Gunzer (George in some accounts) was 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
Brooklyn's Favorite Palmist
The Virtual Dime Museum | July 1st 2009 by Lidian
A lady called Mrs. Hicks was "Brooklyn's favorite palmist" according to an 1898 classified ad - and indeed, she had something for everyone. She was a "life reader," reunited loved ones, removed "evil influences," and gave advice of all kinds. In the read more
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