1800s

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Teacher Pay Certificate For Sale

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 5 May 20

I came across the above advertisement in the Orangburg News and Times from November 27,1875 and to be honest it intrigues me. To my modern eye, well I have a few questions. What was the use in selling a...

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Rules every (Salem) Girl should live by

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 1 May 20

There are a set of rules that every girl at the Salem College are meant to live by. These guidelines are intended to help the girls represent not only themselves, but college as a whole and southern hospitality alongside it....

rules for young women

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{Let Us Step Back In The Past} Female Normal School

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 1 May 20

The object of this institution is to provide for the thorough education of young ladies, and as an additional feature, to qualify each of them as they may desire it, for the avocation of teaching. - July 28,1859...

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{Let US Step Back In The Past} Advice To Ladies

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 1 May 20

This article expounds upon the importance of ensuring that you are playing footsy with the correct gentleman. [i]Be careful, however, never to attempt it at a crowded table for fear of making a mistake. We once saw a lady very...

advice to ladies

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{Let Us Step back In the Past} Shall we steal horses?

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 30 Apr 20

The Leader's name is Brooks. His trial comes off to-morrow at Garnett, and as he has pleaded guilty, there is no doubt but that he will serve a few years at least. This comes from a Kansas newspaper in the late 1800's....

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These ladies showed off what they loved to do....

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 16 Aug 19

Apparently, if this website is to be believed, people could choose how they wanted to pose in photographs. The link I am about to show you is of ladies of varying ages with a book. My favorite photo happens to be one where the...

ladies with books

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A couple who live in the 1800's - Today.

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 3 Mar 17

I am sure a lot of us like to "visit" the 1800's. Perhaps that means going to a setting where re-enactments are made. Perhaps that just means staying at home and reading literature from the era, or watching documentaries. I know...

living in the 1800s

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REasons to be admitted into an insane asylum

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 9 Oct 16

Saw this list posted on facebook earlier and wanted to search it out for myself so I could post a link to it here. Some of the things listed don't make much sense, whether from a difference of phrasing between then and now, or...

insane institutions

crazy practices

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Would you like to go back in time?

momiecat @momiecat (997) • United States 20 Jun 09

I often think it would have been a great time living back in the 1800s. I know life would have been a lot simpler then, even though there were difficult times. I would like a life with less crowds, less cars on the road, more open...

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