Silver Rush Series: Historical Facts, Fictions, and Tidbits
General History
Money Money (A dollar in 1880 is equivalent to how much now?)
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A great site for sussing out clues to date images
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Clothes and hair styles, by the decade
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Mustaches of the nineteenth century
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Spectacles! (as in glasses)
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Western slang and lingo
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Piano Wires Through the Centuries (NBC News article)
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Whiskey of the Old West (that’s whiskey with an “e”)
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56 Victorian Slang Terms
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Victorian mourning and funeral customs (1890s)
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Teatime! (high, low, and little)
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Leadville’s fascinating past
An overview of Leadville’s history with some great photos
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Leadville historic walking tour
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New Year’s Eve in 1878
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1880: A new decade begins
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Letters: Windows to the past (Part 1)
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Letters: Windows to the past (Part 2)
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Letters: Windows to the past (Part 3)
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The well-dressed winter traveler to Leadville (1879)
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The Leadville craze, circa 1879
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Spectator sports in 1880 Leadville
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San Francisco: her history, places, and people
FoundSF: A great site about anything you want to know about San Francisco
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An illustrated history of the Palace Hotel
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A quick overview of Chinatown
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1885 Map of Chinatown
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History of the Cliff House
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Newspaper snippets and photos re: the Cliff House
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San Francisco’s Alleys of “Ill Repute”
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Photos of 19th-century Tenderloin district
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Theater in 19th-century San Francisco
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Wade’s Opera House / the Grand Opera House
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The history of opera in San Francisco
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