Gene Tierney in Hudson's Bay

Gene Tierney in Dragonwyck Hudson's Bay (1941)

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Mardi Gras 1907

'The Rex pageant, Mardi Gras', New Orleans, ca. 1906. 

Alexander M. Halliday was Rex, and his queen was Adrienne Lawrence. 
Excerpt from a photo found on Shorpy.com.

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Mary of Burgundy

Mary of Burgundy (1457-1482) by Michael Pacher, ca. 1490 (Heinz Kisters Collection, Kreuzlingen)

Mary of Burgundy (1457–1482) ruled the Burgundian territories in the Low Countries.

As a single child she inherited the Duchy of Burgundy after her father's death at the Battle Of Nancy in 1477. Later that year she married Archduke Maximilian of Austria, who became her co-ruler. Five years later, during falconing with Maximilian near Wijnendale Castle, her horse tripped, threw her, and then landed on top of her, breaking her back. She died several days later.

Mary's tomb effigy in the Church of Our Lady, Bruges

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Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte

Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte by Gilbert Stuart, 1804 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte (1785–1879), known as Betsy, was the daughter of a prosperous
shipowner and merchant from Baltimore. She was the first wife of Jérôme Bonaparte, and thereby sister-in-law of Emperor Napoleon I of France.

They had one son, Jérôme Napoléon Bonaparte. It is from him that the American line of the Bonaparte family descended.

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Mercer Street (New York), 1862

Laying the Nicolson Pavement in Mercer Street, New York, 1862, by E. & H.T. Anthony

Nicolson Pavement is a road surface material consisting of wooden blocks pioneered by Samuel Nicolson in the mid-eighteen hundreds.

Mercer Street today (not the exact same location)

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Amersfoort Day !

Amersfoort gained its city rights at June 12, 1259.

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Dorothy Flood

Dorothy Flood (1912-2005). Photo by Alfred Cheney Johnston.

Dorothy Flood was born in Brooklyn NY in 1912. Early on, she was a ballet dancer with The Metropolitan Opera Company. She became a Ziegfeld Girl and was in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1931. After her Ziegfeld career ended, she did modeling jobs, including for Dobbs Hats and Whitman's Chocolates. During her later years, she lived happily as a housewife on 5th Avenue in Manhattan. (source: www.doctormacro.com).

You may recognise Dorothy from this post: www.robswebstek.com/2012/08/ziegfeld-girl-dorothy-flood.html.

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CDV (19th Century)

Carte De Visite, photographic studio Kimball Brothers, Main Street Fitchburg MA (from my own collection)

The carte de visite (CDV) was a type of small photograph the size of a visiting card.

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