All Things Decorative and More

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

See article about Barnes Foundation bringing works of Paul Cezanne together for an amazing research opportunity.

http://www.nj.com/indulge/index.ssf/2014/06/rare_opportunity_at_barnes_czannes_works_studied_closely.html

Many of us think that the lottery start in the recent history, but that is not the case.

See the article from the Ephemera Society written by Steven Swain who talks about just some of our cultural history related to lotteries.

http://www.ephemerasociety.org/blog/?p=1698

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winold_Reiss

http://www.umich.edu/~ece/student_projects/slavery/the_zong.html

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_von_Westphalen

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin–Wedgwood_family

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/cotton-gin-patent/

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Littlefield_Greene