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[nemfrog]

Tales About Plants. 1865.

Internet Archive

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$1,190,000 / 7 br / 4 ba

Built In 1865

Nyack, NY

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Dress with Two Bodices & Matching Fichu

c.1865

France

The MET (Object Number: C.I.69.33.9a–e)

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• Trained visiting dress in three parts.

Date: 1865

Medium: Silk plain weave (taffeta), brocaded; silk satin; silk fringe

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Diamond peacock brooch by Gustave Baugrand, circa 1865, Paris

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Yacht AMERICA Crossing U.S.S. CONSTITUTION, Newport, RI, 1865, by Anthony Blake (1951-)

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~ Popular Amusements, by Rev. J. T. Crane, 1869

Rev. Crane goes on to tell us how novel reading leads to day-dreaming, "excitement of the passions" and leaves a person "unfit for real life". At one point he even compares it to an opium addiction.

Unfortunately for the Rev. Jonathan Townley Crane, professional disapprover of fiction, his son Stephen Crane grew up to write "The Red Badge of Courage" which is now considered one of the great American novels. Life can be ironic that way.

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