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NY DIVIDED: SLAVERY & THE CIVIL WAR
The final exhibition in the New York Historical Society's groundbreaking series on slavery and its impact.

FREDERICK DOUGLAS HOUSE RESTORED
The Washington, D.C., home of Douglass reopened to the public on the 189th anniversary of the scholar's birth.

MILESTONES AND MEMORIES
Virtual tour of exhibit at the Costume Museum of Canada.

BISSONNETTE ON COSTUME- THE LINGERIE COLLECTION
Images of corsets and stays dating from 1700 to 1905 from the Kent State University Museum.

FROM OVER-STRUCTURED OPULENCE TO THE HEALTHY CORSET 1880-1900
The Victoria & Albert Museum describes period corsets.

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WILLIAM POWELL FRITH: PAINTING THE VICTORIAN AGE
Exhibition opens in London in November and tours to Harrogate in March 2007.

VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPHS BY ELLIOT & FRY
National Portrait Gallery in London is displaying fourteen famous subjects from the 1880s and 1890s.

QUEEN VICTORIA HANDICAP
An amusing Monty Python clip on YouTube.

THE DEADLY VIRUS - THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC OF 1918
View 1918 flu epidemic documents and photos selected from the National Archives.

PAPERWEIGHT COLLECTION
Online exhibit at the Illinois State Museum featuring info about manufacturers, techniques and a gallery including some of the finest examples of antique French paperweights of the Classic Period (1845 - 1865).