WRITING AND WEBSITE RESOURCESI enjoy researching, whether for a scene or an ancestor in a family tree, pouring over old newspaper articles, photographs, maps, and books. Unlike when I was in school, there are now many excellent resources right at our fingertips. Below is a list of sources used for my writing and Calling Cards and Corsets website.
  • ​​Baedeker, Karl. Baedeker’s London and Its Environs 1900. Moretonhampstead Devon: Old   House Books.
  • Blum, Stella. Victorian Fashions & Costumes from Harper's Bazaar: 1867-1898. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1974.
  • TheBritishNewspaperArchive.co.uk. FindMyPast Newspaper Archive Limited. Last accessed October 18, 2022. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk.
  • “Family Fashions and Fancies.” Good Housekeeping. Springfield: Clark w. Bryan, 1891.
  • Fashion History Timeline. Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York. Last accessed July 5, 2022. https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/?s=history​.
  • Hajar R. “History of Medicine Timeline.” Heart Views. Jan-Mar 2015;16(1):43-5. doi: 10.4103/1995-705X.153008.
  • Hendrickson, Robert. The Grand Emporiums, The illustrated History of America’s Great Department Stores. New York: Stein and Day, 1979.
  • Holt, Emily. Encyclopaedia of Etiquette: A Book of Manners for Everyday Use. New York: Cosmo Classics, 2005.
  • ImperialWarMuseums.com. Last accessed: July 1, 2022. https://www.iwm.org.uk/partnerships/first-world-war-centenary
  • Living London. Vol. I. Sims, George R., editor. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1902.
  • Living London. Vol. II. Sims, George R., editor. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1902.
  • Living London. Vol. III. Sims, George R., editor. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1903.
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art: Digital Collections, Costume Institute. Last accessed: July 5, 2022. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cost/hd_cost.htm
  • Newspapers.com. Ancestry. Last accessed: October 18, 2022. https://www.newspapers.com.
  • Sproule, Anna. The Social Calendar. Poole, Dover: Blanford Press, 1978.
  • The Queen's London. London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1897.
  • Ware, J. Redding. Passing English of the Victorian Era, A Dictionary of Heterodox English, Slang and Phrase. London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1909. Kindle Version.
  • Whitaker, Jan. The World of Department Stores. New York: The Vendome Press, 2011.​
  • Worsley-Gough, Barbara. Fashions in London. London: Allan Wingate, 1952.
Sources: "Society." The New York Times, Sunday Editions from November through April, 1897. Accessed on Newspapers.com. 
Images:
(1)  33rd St. entrance of Waldorf Astoria hotel. c1901, Photograph, Library of Congress, Washington D.C., https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97513247/. Accessed 29 Oct. 2022.
​(2) By James R. Osgood and Company, Boston - American architect and building news plate 1204, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46934369