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FEATHERS, FASHION & FLY FISHING

1/23/2021

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Late Victorian Era ladies and gents had a fetish for feathers.  More than 5 million birds were being massacred yearly to satisfy the booming North American millinery trade. Along Manhattan's Ladies' Mile — the principal shopping district in New York, centered on Broadway and Twenty-Third Street — retail stores sold the feathers of snowy egrets, white ibises, and great blue herons.   Once dense egret bird colonies were wiped out in Florida. Some women even wanted a stuffed owl head on their bonnets and a full hummingbird wrapped in bejeweled vegetation as a brooch. And fly fishing - Fishermen caused ruffled feathers too. Click on the "read more" to find out why!

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    Some stories that couldn't make the book in full ... but need to be told! Editors welcomed - sign up below.
    STORIES
    WR HEARST PLANS
    SONG: DAISY
    HOT SPRINGS 1882
    A WILLIS POLK GIFT
    THE RLS CONNECTION 1896

    ​EARTHQUAKE TALES FROM COPPA
    PANDEMIC OF 1889
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    THE BOMB THAT SHOOK SF
    MILAN:CITY OF WATER
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    POLK ON THE MAP
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    FEATHERS, FASHION & FLY FISHING
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    RARE AVIATION FILM - WWI 1914-17
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    1906 SAN FRANCISCO
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    WTF FILES - TECHNOLOGICAL
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    GET ME OUTTA HERE!
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    NO HORSES, NO TENTS, NO $
    DAISY IN FRENCH LITERATURE
    DAISY ON FILM!
    THE WHITE DEATH
    THE SYMBOLISM OF FLOWERS
    POSTE DE SECOURS  WWI
    TRAVEL 1900: LONDON TO PARIS 

    DAISY: REST IN PEACE
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    KEITH'S, DRANE'S & KENTUCKY
    ​MOTHER: MISSOURI COMPROMISE 

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    Pandemic
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    Phoebe Hearst
    Poste De Secours
    Prevenatoriums
    Reverend TJ Drane
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    Suffrage
    Susan Keith
    Travel In 1900's
    Victorians
    War Relief Work
    William Randolph Hearst
    Willis Polk
    Willis Webb Polk
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