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| | TheHamptons.com: Words: David Reynolds |
 | | he 1850s was also a decade of unprecedented political corruption, a time of vote-buying, wire-pulling, graft, and patronage on all levels of state and national government. | | | The early 1850s witnessed one of the most momentous phenomena in American political history: the collapse of the party system. | | | In his 1856 notebook the former party loyalist could proclaim himself "no[t] the particular representative of any one party--no tied and ticketed democrat, whig, abolitionist, republican,--no bawling spokesman of natives against foreigners" (NP, 6: 2117). |
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http://thehamptons.com/words/reynolds/politics_and_poetry.html
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| | The E Pluribus Unum Project: Archiving 1850's America |
| | Visitors are encouraged to send inquiries or suggestions. | | | Two extended scholarly investigations, one by Lucia Knoles on oratory and the other by John McClymer on "understanding" the 1850s | | | In putting this archive together we have sought to cast our net widely but not indiscriminately. |
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http://www.assumption.edu/ahc/Intros/intro1850s.html
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| | Fashion In The 1850s And '60s - The Ladies Treasury of Costume and Fashion |
| | A new type of easy-to-wear woman's outfit was introduced in America by Mrs Amelia Bloomer in the early 1850s. | | | The corset of the 1850s and 60s was less constricting than many that were to follow. | | | Shawls were very fashionable outerwear during the 1850s but the jacket bodice was also developing into a stylish alternative. |
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http://www.tudorlinks.com/treasury/articles/view185060.html
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| | From 1850s Virginia, an Abolitionist Hero Emerges (washingtonpost.com) |
| | From 1850s Virginia, an Abolitionist Hero Emerges (washingtonpost.com) | | | Not long before Norman Schools bought the historic Moncure Conway House in 1998, the retired restoration expert had never heard of the Stafford County-born abolitionist. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22595-2004Aug21.html
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| | 1850s |
| | Background: an altered image of the Declaration of Independence, see the original images at the presentation on the Declaration of Independence by the US National Archives. | | | The Steamboat Ben Campbell in the 1850s LC-USZ6-2054 DLC (bandw film copy neg. | | | The National Park Service offers an exhibit with images, links, and other materials on the |
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http://www2.tltc.ttu.edu/Harper/2300/WebLinks/1850s/1850s.htm
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| | Restaurant seafood prices since 1850s help plot marine harvests through history |
| | History of North Sea stocks offers new insights on modern policies; 100 ocean historians, scientists to meet in Denmark Oct. 24-27 | | | Led by paleo-oceanographer Glenn Jones at Texas A&M University at Galveston, researchers are charting over 150 years of inflation-adjusted seafood prices from menus, most from cities such as New York, Boston and San Francisco. | | | Seafood prices collected from U.S. restaurant menus dating to the 1850s will help plot the shifting harvest of marine species, according to a study to be announced at Oceans Past a Census of Marine Life conference in Denmark on the History of Marine Animal Populations. |
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-10/cp-rsp101705.php
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| | Eating in the 1850's |
| | In his description of his wife you see only too well that political correctness had not yet struck home in the middle of the last century. | | | A writer called Henry Mayhew, who was an indefatigable chronicler of London's poor toured the city in the 1850s, interviewing what were then called the lower classes, seeing and noting down their customs and carefully listening to the language they used. | | | As late as the 1960s, Frenchmen in Algeria drank the untreated variety, and it was common to see a man with `white-eye', as the French call it, from the fact that the eye takes on a milky appearance. |
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http://abceda.com/eatold.htm
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| | MSN Encarta - Dred Scott Case |
| | Dred Scott Case, landmark case of the 1850s in which the Supreme Court of the United States declared that African Americans were not U.S. citizens. | | | The Court also determined that the portion of the Missouri Compromise of 1820 that banned slavery in U.S. territories north and west of the state of Missouri was unconstitutional. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761560456/Dred_Scott_Case.html
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| | Boston.com / News / Local / 1850s quilt comes home to tell its tale |
| | The current population of Medfield is around 13,000, up from 10,500 in 1990, according to the US Census. | | | She calls it ''quilt serendipity." Former selectwoman Sandra Munsey told an audience Monday that a quilt made in Medfield in 1850 and recently reunited with the town by way of eBay seemed to want its story to be known. | | | Former selectwoman Sandra Munsey told an audience Monday that a quilt made in Medfield in 1850 and recently reunited with the town by way of |
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http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/04/07/1850s_quilt_comes_home_to_tell_its_tale
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| | The C. Warren Irvin, Jr., Collection of Charles Darwin and Darwiniana: Marine Biology and the 1950s |
| | Herbert Spencer and theories of social development in the 1850s | | | While Owen would later become the butt of brutal attacks by the Darwinians, especially Huxley, his intransigence in the 1850s warned the still-cautious Darwin about the risks of discussing human evolution until his general theory was established. | | | Subsequently, Kingsley would be one of the first clergymen to write in support of Darwin's Origin and would incorporate ideas from it in his children's fantasy The water babies (1863). |
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http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/nathist/darwin/darwin7.html
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| | Battle for Hyde Park: ruffians, radicals and ravers, 1850s-1990s |
| | The state likes to present itself as invincible, with laws that can't be broken enforced by police that can't be beaten. | | | A serious of confrontations in the Square culminated in Bloody Sunday 1887, when several people were killed by police during a mass illegal demonstration. | | | In the 1850s and 1860s people repeatedly ignored bans en masse until the state was forced to back down; the Royal Parks and Gardens Act 1872 allowed public meetings in the park, albeit with some restrictions. |
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http://www.geocities.com/pract_history/hyde.html
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| | UCC Anoka traces its roots to circa 1850s model |
| | In the 1850s, there were few people in what is Anoka today — mostly loggers, fur traders and members of the Sioux and Chippewa tribes, according to Curtis Johnson, historian and minister of adult education for the First Congregational United Church of Christ. | | | Although the Congregational Church was founded in the Anoka in 1855, it wasn’t until 1857 that the first church building was constructed, subsequently destroyed by fire in the early 1930s. | | | Through this past Monday, a replica of Anoka circa 1850s, built and mapped out in half of the gymnasium of the church by Sunday school students as part of their “January Journey” exploration, laid out all the buildings, the Mississippi and Rum Rivers and other historical markers. |
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http://www.anokacountyunion.com/2005/February/3model.html
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| | The 1850s and Beyond: States Strengthen Gover... [Mackinac Center for Public Policy] |
| | Although none of the original state constitutions of the United States prohibited the use of public funds to assist church-related education, the inclusion or addition of such prohibitions in state constitutions occurred only in isolated instances up to the 1850s. | | | However, the growth of nativist and anti-Catholic sentiments in the country hastened the movement to add such restrictions beginning in the mid-1800s. | | | The 1850s and Beyond: States Strengthen Government's Role in Education and Restrict School Choice |
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http://www.mackinac.org/2036
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| | North Waterford Maine - Chaplin Map of 1850s |
| | An annotation the map states "Old location of 1852" suggesting that this map was drawn some years later. | | | Although it is not dated, I place it as having been drawn in the late 1850s for two reasons: | | | The original of this map was passed down through the Greene family. |
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http://www.performance-vision.com/waterford/north-waterford-map.htm
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| | 1850s Hair Dos |
| | There were caps that were no more than a flat piece of lace tapered at the ends that extended into long tails (lappets) at the sides, and were seated far back on the head. | | | Photography was still a new technology, the expensive Daguerreotypes having been introduced in 1839, and the less expensive ambrotype becoming the dominant form of portraiture in the 1850s. | | | Dresses had attached v-fronted bodices that could be fastened at the back or a front-fastened jacket bodice. |
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http://www.lphouse.com/1850s.htm
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| | First ever estimate of cod fishery in 1850s reveals 96% decline on Scotian Shelf |
| | The Census is led by an independently constituted international Scientific Steering Committee whose members serve in their individual capacities and a growing set of national and regional implementation committees. | | | To date, declines have only been vaguely described for predatory fish species and complex coral reef systems around the world. | | | Andrew A. Rosenberg, Ph.D. - Ocean Process and Analysis Laboratory - Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space |
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-03/coml-fee022305.php
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| | NYPL, Moving Uptown Exhibition |
| | By the 1850s, the population of New York had passed the half-million mark, and the city continued its march north. | | | Broadway had filled up beyond Union Square (there were only two or three vacant lots below 14th Street) and had reached Madison Square. | | | In the 1850s, this was considered the most fashionable church in town. |
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http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/movingup/labelv.htm
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| | 1850s and 1860s Costuming Ideas |
| | In the early 1850's they would have been worn over starched petticoats, after around 1856 they would have been worn over a wired hoop (105"-125" bottom hoop circumference on average). | | | The look of the bodice was usually longer waisted in the 1850's and fairly short waisted in the '60's, flounced skirts were quite popular in the '50's. | | | The bodice is usually fastened at the center back by either hooks and eyes or lacing. |
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http://www.vintagevictorian.com/costume_1860.html
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| | Xiao-huang Yin / Chinese American Literature since the 1850s |
| | This essential volume, a much-needed introduction and guide to the field, traces the origins and development of an extensive and largely neglected body of literature written in English and in Chinese. | | | Xiao-huang Yin / Chinese American Literature since the 1850s | | | As the only volume that covers the literature written by immigrant authors in the Chinese language, Yin's book significantly enlarges the scope of Chinese and Asian American studies. |
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http://www.press.uillinois.edu/s00/yin.html
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| | Kingwood College Library - 19th Century - the 1850s |
| | The 1850's saw more states providing free public education as the | | | Mirror daguerreotypes in the 1850s - be sure and look at the occupational daguerreotypes and other info here. | | | During the 1850s American artists were acquiring reputations in Europe. |
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http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/19thcentury1850.htm
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| | Augusta Free Press : An 1850s Staunton Christmas |
| | But most families in the 1850s did not go in for the lavish displays we often associate with the later Victorian period," said Lucinda Cooke, the director of education at the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library in Staunton. | | | The celebration is low-key - in line with the way the Wilson family would have marked the occasion back in the 1850s. | | | Augusta Free Press : An 1850s Staunton Christmas |
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http://augustafreepress.weblogger.com/stories/storyReader%2415817
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| | Dressing Baby - 1850s Style |
| | The decade of the 1850s was one in which women's and children's clothing saw a tremendous surge towards excess. | | | In women's fashions, skirts widened to the point where wire frames had to be used to support them; each massive skirt sported flounces, laces, ribbons, or any variety of other often gaudy trimmings. | | | The frilled, flounced and furbelowed 1850s grew more ornate with each passing day and even the littlest humans were as loaded with ribbons, bows, embroidery and lace as any Parisian belle. |
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http://www.history.rochester.edu/godeys/readers/kh/db-1850/index.htm
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| | Selling Antique Sheet Music from 1850s - 1960s Free discussion |
| | Please be respectful to interlocutors, don`t use oath, don`t abuse capital letters, don`t publish advertising and also materials violate netiquette. | | | Preddy is a TROLL of a Man (who sounds… | | | M-T-M #10 - The Highlights Every time I get a Mark Trail cd compilation I am amazed at the talent that… |
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http://www.xywe.com/music/41-527-selling-antique-sheet-music-from-1850s-1960s-read.shtml
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| | Ships to Australia & New Zealand 1850s |
| | Return of Ships and Emigrants despatched by Public Funds to New South Wales, in 1854, 1855, and up to the 31 | | | Emigrant Ships To Australia and New Zealand in The 1850s |
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http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/australia/aust1850s.html
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| | Ugali - The Congo Cookbook (African recipes) www.congocookbook.com - |
| | In the late 1850's Richard Francis Burton traveled from Zanzibar to Lake Tanganyika and back, and then wrote The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1860; reprinted by Dover Publications, and by Scholarly Press). | | | In the first paragraph Burton is saying that his African porters regard any meal without ugali as nothing more than a snack. | | | Such is ugali, or porridge, the staff of life in East Africa |
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http://www.congocookbook.com/c0051.html
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| | 1850s building's owners trade nails for forks - The Clarion-Ledger |
| | When Bryan Palmer and his long-term friend Albert Malatilc learned the building was for sale, they decided to make Kim Palmer's dreams a reality. | | | They kept the name and decided not to paint over the tattered walls. | | | The building, constructed sometime in the 1850s, needed remodeling and repairs, including a full-service kitchen. |
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http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040913/NEWS01/409130346/1002
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| | Basic Astrophysics |
| | Subsequent astronomers making more precise measurements needed a less subjective classification system; in the 1850s astronomer N. Pogson suggested standardizing the apparent magnitudes of stars using a scale based on the relationship: |
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http://hexadecimal.uoregon.edu/relativity/astro.html
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| | Bancroftiana, Number 114 Spring 1999: 1999’s Keepsake: San Francisco in the Early 1850s |
| | The 1999 Bancroft Keepsake will provide a rare opportunity to share a select and intimate view of life in San Francisco during the early 1850s. | | | Bancroftiana, Number 114 Spring 1999: 1999’s Keepsake: San Francisco in the Early 1850s | | | 1999’s Keepsake: San Francisco in the Early 1850s |
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http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/events/bancroftiana/114/keep.html
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| | National Gallery opens new galleries for photos with exhibit of 1850s war photography |
| | A series of new halls devoted exclusively to photography open Sunday at the National Gallery of Art with an exhibit of work by Roger Fenton, one of the first war photographers. | | | National Gallery opens new galleries for photos with exhibit of 1850s war photography | | | AllPosters / Art.com seeks Sr PROJECT MANAGER / ESTIMATOR At SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER Physical |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/10/15/national1436EDT0628.DTL
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| | Victorian Fashion, Dressing the Victorian Lady from the 1850s |
| | Next is the Hoop Petticoat, hailed as a liberator from the need for the excessive layers of under petticoats. | | | Only a single under-petticoat was required with the hoop. | | | Victorian Fashion, Dressing the Victorian Lady from the 1850s |
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http://www.victoriana.com/shops/couture/fifty4.html
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