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Nancy Leishman

Pittsburgh, 2 Oct 1894 – Copenhagen, 22 Feb 1983

6 facts2 sources

Facts and their sources

  • Born2 Oct 1894, Pittsburghnot verified1 source
  • Died22 Feb 1983, Copenhagennot verified1 source

A life in time

  1. 2 Oct 1894

    Born in Pittsburgh

  2. 11 Oct 1914

    A son is born

  3. 22 Feb 1983

    Dies in Copenhagen, aged 88

Family

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Children · 1

During her lifetime

She lived through 10 decades. Pick one to hear and see what it was like around Pittsburgh.

General history, not a record about the family: each item says where it comes from.

The 1890s · Nancy is born in Pittsburgh

Who governed

In the news1899

1899 September Agreement signed

The 1899 September Agreement ended a major industrial dispute and institutionalized the Danish labor market, giving unions formal recognition.

Music

Pioneer Songs in Oklahoma Territory

In the late 19th-century Oklahoma Territory, rural settlers enjoyed singing humorous parodies of familiar songs that depicted their daily trials and experiences. They often sang these songs together while traveling in wagons to and from social gatherings.

The cinema. In a Paris café the Lumière brothers showed films to a paying audience for the first time.Around the world · 1895

The cinema. In a Paris café the Lumière brothers showed films to a paying audience for the first time.

Unknown authorUnknown author · public domain

Daily life

Demanding daily chores and cooking stoves

Cooking relied on cast iron stoves that required up to 50 pounds of coal or wood daily and constant attention to dampers and fires. Housework was so demanding that laundry day was nicknamed Blue Monday due to its exhausting labor.

In the news1891–1892

1891 Social insurance legislation introduced

In 1891–1892, Denmark introduced its first social insurance legislation, granting old-age relief to the deserving poor.

What people wore

Corset Pressure for Hourglass Figures

To achieve a fashionable hourglass figure, women's corsets could exert as much as eighty pounds of compacting pressure on the body.

Getting around

Railroads replace steamboats

As railroads expanded in the 1880s and 1890s, they made river steamboats increasingly inefficient and costly, eventually causing river transportation for passengers to fall by the wayside.