Folly Cove 01930: 249 books

In the Mid 19th Century African exploration was big news. This is the story of exploration and big game hunting that kept the fires of exploration fascinations well fanned.

These three articles from 1867 provide a humorous description of a London Police court and the witnesses that may appear there. Illustrated.

Thorpe looks at Duels and Duelists in this short piece from 1868, when the practice was still alive in some places. He covers mostly duels in America, although some European duels are mentioned. Thomas Bangs Thorpe 1815-1878 was an American antebellum humorist, painter, illustrator, and...

A trip along the footpaths followed by the founders of Jamestown and Roanoke Island. This was written during the decade before the civil war. “a fig for antiquity! Cock up your beaver, lad; cock it fu' brawly,' in the face of the sea-rovers of old. The chaps who plundered the Spanish galleons in...

Tuckerman strolls through mid nineteenth century Newport telling us, in this short piece,  the stories of the people who are buried in the old burial grounds of the city and their place in the history of Newport, of Rhode Island, and of the World.

Pittsburgh Pennsylvania was the center of the world of Steel at the beginning of the 20th century. Take a look at Steel and Steel making in the industrial powerhouse of turn of the century Pittsburgh.

A Rags to Riches Fairy Tale.

This report from an outpost of the British Empire in Northern Burma during the last decade of the nineteenth century highlights the colonial mindset. Written for an American Audience of the period.

In  A Dangerous Journey Browne Travels across California from San Francisco through a country full of outlaws, nearly losing his life along the way.

One man's story of his flight from slavery at the end of the American Civil War.

In this short piece Thorpe discusses the Bobwhite, also known as the Virginia Quail-partridge. This piece describes the bird and its habits as well as highlighting mid nineteenth century thought on hunting and wildlife preservation. Thomas Bangs Thorpe 1815-1878 was an American antebellum humorist,...

A Brief illustrated tour of the wine regions of the Iberian peninsula. Madeira, Portugal and Andalusia during the mid nineteenth century are explored.

In this piece from 1855 Lossing discusses the evolution of artillery pieces from the ancients up to the days just prior to the American Civil War.

Professor Greene, for many years consul of the United States at Rome during the early 19th century brings us a short history of the Catacombs of Rome.