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Following Eleanor Ferrell: A Runaway Indentured Servant
New: see the full article online here. If it doesn’t come up, go to the home page and search again. Abraham Emmit labeled her “an ill...
Becky Fifield
May 27, 20122 min read
Hike up your woolen undies: A Treatise on the Propagation of Sheep
Baa. Cool it, already. Photo: Imaginactory. John Wily wrote the motivational pamphlet A Treatise on the Propagation of Sheep, the...
Becky Fifield
May 26, 20123 min read
Tenement Treatment for Tuberculosis – The Cherokee Apartments, New York City
Balconies of Gustavino tile at The Cherokee Apartments. RL Fifield, 2005. Others have blogged about the Cherokee Apartments before, and I...
Becky Fifield
May 24, 20122 min read
Transit Tuesday – Central Railroad of New Jersey’s Communipaw Terminal
CNJRR Train Shed and Communipaw Terminal. RL Fifield, 2011. Staring out over New York Harbor, the Central Railroad of New Jersey’s...
Becky Fifield
May 22, 20122 min read
Waiting for Tomatoes
Tomatoes – it runs in my Maryland family’s veins. We had not one, but three commercial tomato packing houses in my family. Millard...
Becky Fifield
May 20, 20122 min read
Potato Rolls – A Family History
Fifty Years in a Maryland Kitchen (1873) has several recipes for fostering yeast from potatoes, including potato and hops mixtures, on...
Becky Fifield
May 17, 20122 min read
Digging Up My Ancestors – Smithsonian Edition
Click here for Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. Gibb Archaeological Consulting Crew, Cole Cemetery site, Aberdeen, MD, 2010. GAC photo. And...
Becky Fifield
May 10, 20122 min read
Digging Up My Ancestors – Smithsonian Edition
Click here for Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. Gibb Archaeological Consulting Crew, Cole Cemetery site, Aberdeen, MD, 2010. GAC photo. And...
Becky Fifield
May 10, 20122 min read
Rational Chit Chat About Birth Control, from 1855
Reproductive Control. View the whole text at the U.S. National Library of Medicine website. http://collections.nlm.nih.gov/muradora/objec...
Becky Fifield
May 6, 20122 min read
Rational Chit Chat About Birth Control, from 1855
Reproductive Control. View the whole text at the U.S. National Library of Medicine website. http://collections.nlm.nih.gov/muradora/objec...
Becky Fifield
May 6, 20122 min read
The Act of Research – London Metropolitan Archives Edition
A swatch preserved in the billet books at the London Metropolitan Archives. Thomas Coram Foundation for Children. Foundling number 12250,...
Becky Fifield
May 5, 20122 min read
The Act of Research – London Metropolitan Archives Edition
A swatch preserved in the billet books at the London Metropolitan Archives. Thomas Coram Foundation for Children. Foundling number 12250,...
Becky Fifield
May 5, 20122 min read
Other Families’ Photo Albums – What Am I Doing in There?
A visitor at New Windsor Cantonment photographs reenactors at the Brigade of the American Revolution’s School of Instruction, April 28,...
Becky Fifield
May 4, 20122 min read
Other Families’ Photo Albums – What Am I Doing in There?
A visitor at New Windsor Cantonment photographs reenactors at the Brigade of the American Revolution’s School of Instruction, April 28,...
Becky Fifield
May 4, 20122 min read
New York Calling – and gets voice mail
If there’s one thing I felt after reading the excellent New York Calling: From Blackout to Bloomberg ( eds. Marshall Berman and Brian...
Becky Fifield
May 3, 20122 min read
New York Calling – and gets voice mail
If there’s one thing I felt after reading the excellent New York Calling: From Blackout to Bloomberg ( eds. Marshall Berman and Brian...
Becky Fifield
May 3, 20122 min read
Argand Lamp – A moment of pause for Barbara Carson
She passed away this year, and today they are holding a memorial concert in her honor in Williamsburg. Barbara lived there with her...
Becky Fifield
Apr 29, 20121 min read
Argand Lamp – A moment of pause for Barbara Carson
She passed away this year, and today they are holding a memorial concert in her honor in Williamsburg. Barbara lived there with her...
Becky Fifield
Apr 29, 20121 min read
Digging Up My Ancestors – Inbred
This post is a continuation of a series chronicling the relocation of my family cemetery, including my 4th Great Grandparents James Cole...
Becky Fifield
Apr 28, 20122 min read
Digging Up My Ancestors – Inbred
This post is a continuation of a series chronicling the relocation of my family cemetery, including my 4th Great Grandparents James Cole...
Becky Fifield
Apr 28, 20122 min read
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