Breakfast Links: Week of October 31, 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.

• Halloween celebrations in Gilded Age America: http://bit.ly/dsDEV1

• Bonny Bobby Shafto http://post.ly/3lvWW

• Meet the 18th century book-keeper with a secret obsession: http://bit.ly/rOox9q

• Looking at how Sir Robert Shirley bridged cultures (and dressed accordingly) in the early 17th c:http://bit.ly/rzAvdg

• NYC's famous (& infamous) 1883 Chelsea Hotel, known for residents as well as architecture: http://bit.ly/uebAmj

• Here be dragons: British Library manuscripts app details how to be king http://bit.ly/vdPOLr

• Early 1920s swimsuits: Swimwear and the Sporting Life http://bit.ly/vnUFCT

• Westminster doors galore: The green one….no, the red one…you choose. I'm really not sure - http://bit.ly/cpsGaT

• Poster advertising the Royal Menagerie at the Tower of London, 1834: http://bit.ly/rE6CQD

• Ladies Accomplishments: A Late 18th-Century Paper Filigree Work Cabinet http://wp.me/pGJsu-1RC

• Early Music Online: 300 of earliest surviving printed, digitized from the British Library’s copies: http://bit.ly/nVnD9G

• Holding history in my hands: how an 1855 ambrotype can inform fashion history:http://bit.ly/rzR0lu

• William of Orange was born on 4 November 1650 in an atmosphere of funeral gloom. Why? http://bit.ly/tTeglp

• 'Caroline Crachami, the 19th c "Sicilian Fairy"' - http://wp.me/p14Gvd-sn

• Capturing your garden and your family: English Landscape & Portraitist Arthur Devis 1712-1787: http://bit.ly/uYXHdR 

• Mummification, ritual vessels, floral adornment: discover fascinating details of Tutankhamun's funeral:http://met.org/uHNWCq

• This breaks my heart: Goodbye at Pennsylvania Station, 1944 - http://bit.ly/sPK2yD

• Though they originated in China, it was in Europe that fireworks flourished: http://bit.ly/skqbuI

• Racine overwhelmed by full inbox. OMG! Twitter in 17th century? http://bit.ly/tHx4Zf 

• Marvelous profile of 18th c house in Whitechapel - AND it's for sale! ::sigh:: http://bit.ly/nRChw4 

Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring, 1898