The "Climax" may have been the hat, but the rest of the outfit was noteworthy, too. Hill Brothers has previously been featured in our Hats Collection, [ http://bit.ly/TheMyraHat ] Courtesy of Hathi Trust and Google, you can access a PDF of "12 Letters to a Young Milliner" by the Hill Brothers organization at [ http://bit.ly/TwelveLettersToAYoungMilliner ]

The "Climax" may have been the hat, but the rest of the outfit was noteworthy, too. Hill Brothers has previously been featured in our Hats Collection, [ http://bit.ly/TheMyraHat ] Courtesy of Hathi Trust and Google, you can access a PDF of "12 Letters to a Young Milliner" by the Hill Brothers organization at [ http://bit.ly/TwelveLettersToAYoungMilliner ]

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Brief presentation/slideshow outlines social impact parallels between telegraph/telephone and internet. It raises as many questions as it answers.

Brief presentation/slideshow outlines social impact parallels between telegraph/telephone and internet. It raises as many questions as it answers.

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https://www.slideshare.net/gonzs882/the-victorian-internet

Height of fashion, 1894! A grape outfit sells grape products. The back of the card makes health claims for Sanitas Grape Food and juice that were most likely exaggerated.

Height of fashion, 1894! A grape outfit sells grape products. The back of the card makes health claims for Sanitas Grape Food and juice that were most likely exaggerated.

Meanwhile, we found a photo of a Sanitas container as part of a slide presentation by Tobin Gilman [ https://www.slideshare.net/tgilman/book-presentation-11-1613 ]

Tobin Gilman says,

"This presentation was delivered at the New Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum on November 16, 2013. It features a subset of content from the award winning book, 19TH CENTURY SAN JOSE IN A BOTTLE, as well as general interest material not included in the book."

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Fishy Fashion Starting with the unlikely print of a stylish young lady being observed by a distracted fisherman, the Arthur James story unfolds. Click the album to enlarge your view of the back of the card and other info we gathered via our Google searches on the Excelsior Needle & Fish Hook Works in Redditch, UK.

Fishy Fashion Starting with the unlikely print of a stylish young lady being observed by a distracted fisherman, the Arthur James story unfolds. Click the album to enlarge your view of the back of the card and other info we gathered via our Google searches on the Excelsior Needle & Fish Hook Works in Redditch, UK.

You can view a brief history of the Redditch needle industry at [ http://www.redditchhistory.org.uk/needles.html ]

Still curious about Redditch? See [ http://www.redditchheritage.org.uk/ ]

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