The Virtual Dime Museum

The Virtual Dime Museum : A pop history dime museum mostly set in Victorian Brooklyn...
The Virtual Dime Museum
A pop history dime museum mostly set in Victorian Brooklyn...
Pop history in three rings: New York City and Brooklyn history, a little genealogy, Victorian medicine, old advertisements and Victorian true crime. And anything else historical and weird that catches my eye!
Just here for the view

Most recent posts

10/02 13:43 Very Gentlemanly On the Head
Well, Eureka indeed!It is Friday and we are going to take a little recess from the history mysteries, though I promise that it will return regularly. Often enough to be fun, but not so often that we all get tired of it.There will be
9/30 12:10 Fonthill: A Castle In the Bronx
This beautiful castle is in New York City, in the Bronx neighborhood of
9/28 12:59 The Great Glass Coffee Experiment
It may look like an elegant Victorian chemistry experiment, but Friday's mystery contraption is actually a coffee maker from the mid-1850s. And a lot of you were totally on the right track. However, many congratulations and cups of fine coffee to
9/25 12:07 The Curlicued Thingamajig
I was able to make this picture a decent size this week, which is a good thing since it has all sorts of decorative detail on it.You might be able to guess this one. I don't know if I could have guessed it, but knowing w
9/24 13:15 The Flying Hat
This most uplifting object is a Flying Hat, the subject of a late Victorian trick photograph (although the trick is not that astonishing - if y

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