Breakfast Links: Week of September 5, 2011

Served up fresh for you, our weekly offering of Breakfast Links: our favorite links to other blogs, web sites, pictures, and articles, all collected for you from around the Twitterverse.

• Ahh, ogling men never change! Lunchtime voyeurism at the Flatiron Building: http://wp.me/p1

• Now overlooked & truncated : 1913 Titanic Mermorial LIghthouse in NYC: http://bit.ly

• One for the ladies! My Daguerreotype Boyfriend http://bit.ly

• Predicting the weather, early modern style: Thunder on a Wednesday means the death of harlots. http://bit.ly

• Looking at the mixing of Greek & Chinese Regency style at Castle Coole: http://bit.ly

• Wonderful early 20th c carved wooden carousel figure of leaping cat with fish in its mouth: http://bit.ly

• Fascinating on-line exhibition: Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature: http://1.usa.gov

• The Right Stripe for the Right Job: 18th c gowns: http://bit.ly/obe1Pn

• Charlotte Bronte's wedding bonnet & veil from the Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth, Yorkshire http://bit.ly

• Thanks to the Museum of London, over 3,000 historic fashion photographs go online from the studios of Bassano Limited: http://bit.ly

• The beautiful and incredibly rare Chinoiserie gilt leather panelled room investigated by color & paint specialist Patrick Baty: http://bit.ly

• Death and Taxes, represented quite literally in these 'skull nickels' : http://bit.ly

• A Promise to Pay - the spread of banknotes in the 18th Century http://post.ly/360kt

• Photo: How Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth will make her bow to Royalty http://bit.ly

• Just for fun, check out the NYT bestseller list from the week you were born. http://bit.ly

• Melancholoy but fascinating site: Country Houses at Risk: http://ow.ly/6mNy2

• Lovely. A letter from Harper Lee, author “To Kill a Mockingbird”: http://bit.ly

• Importance of the Parlor & Hearth in 19th c American homes, interview w/ Old Sturbridge Village curator: bit.ly/oNLnNF

• A beacon from Armada days? Mystery of the Compton Pike, Warwickshire: http://bit.ly

• Not a quick death in 18th c. ‘The Hangman's Fracture' - http://wp.me/p1

• Women in uniform, World War I edition. http://ow.ly