Billy the Kid, born William Henry McCarty Jr.
Billy the Kid
Posts Tagged: 1800s
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The Sly Fox Sisters
Kate and Maggie Fox fooled their mother. Then they fooled Hydesville, NY.
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The Last Letter of Thomas Hiliker
“The jury deliberated for about ten minutes, during which time Hiliker was in great agitation.
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Magdalene Laundries
The Magdalene Laundries were convents for “fallen women” all over Britain, Europe, America, Canada and Australia — the first of which was founded in 1765 in Dublin, Ireland.
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Emma Girls
Emma Willard School in Troy, NY was founded in 1814 by Emma Willard in an effort to provide girls with the same level of education as boys.
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My Daguerreotype Teenager
The daguerrotype was the first commercially successful photographic process that immortalized many types at the turn of the century.
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Mill Girl Murder
From the 1830s-1850s young women in their late teens to early twenties flocked to New England to work in factories.
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Teen Bronte
Years before Jane Eyre was bestselling, 13 year old Charlotte Bronte amused herself making miniature books, complete with stories, poetry and imagined literary criticism.
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Black Britain: A Photographic History
Left: ‘A young dandy wearing a formal suit and Top hat, circa 1890’ Right: ‘Conroy Campbell, a pupil at Willesden High school, 1973’
I just rediscovered this book; Stuart Hall and Paul Gilroy put it together in 2007.