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- Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, Bound Volume of Issues from 1864 - <i>Godey's Lady's Book</i>, later <i>Godey's Magazine</i>, was an American women's magazine published from 1830 to 1896. It featured colored fashion plates, sewing patterns, sheet music, and works by notable authors. Sarah Hale, editor from 1837 to 1877, used the magazine to advance women's causes, particularly in the realm of education. The popularity of<i> Godey's</i> made it an arbiter of American culture.
- 1864
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Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, Bound Volume of Issues from 1864
Godey's Lady's Book, later Godey's Magazine, was an American women's magazine published from 1830 to 1896. It featured colored fashion plates, sewing patterns, sheet music, and works by notable authors. Sarah Hale, editor from 1837 to 1877, used the magazine to advance women's causes, particularly in the realm of education. The popularity of Godey's made it an arbiter of American culture.
- Postcard Advertising the Domestic Vacuum Sweeper Company of Peoria, Illinois, circa 1910 - This card advertising a carpet sweeper shows the most modern interior in 1910 America. All of the furnishings represent the Arts and Crafts style, from the reclining or Morris chair behind the maid, to the rocker next to the fireplace, with its cozy corner, or inglenook. Even the lighting fixtures are as up to date as possible.
- circa 1910
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Postcard Advertising the Domestic Vacuum Sweeper Company of Peoria, Illinois, circa 1910
This card advertising a carpet sweeper shows the most modern interior in 1910 America. All of the furnishings represent the Arts and Crafts style, from the reclining or Morris chair behind the maid, to the rocker next to the fireplace, with its cozy corner, or inglenook. Even the lighting fixtures are as up to date as possible.
- Advertising Notice for "Lithgow's Patent Gas-Heating Smoothing Iron," circa 1860 -
- circa 1860
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Advertising Notice for "Lithgow's Patent Gas-Heating Smoothing Iron," circa 1860
- The Ladies' Home Journal for November 1901 -
- November 01, 1901
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The Ladies' Home Journal for November 1901
- Women with Housekeeping and Food Serving Equipment, 1894-1895 -
- 1894 -1895
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Women with Housekeeping and Food Serving Equipment, 1894-1895
- The Complete Home: an Encyclopedia of Domestic Life and Affairs, 1883 -
- 1883
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The Complete Home: an Encyclopedia of Domestic Life and Affairs, 1883
- Trade Card for Electric Argand Burner Lamps, Plume and Atwood Manufacturing Company, circa 1880 - In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- circa 1880
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Trade Card for Electric Argand Burner Lamps, Plume and Atwood Manufacturing Company, circa 1880
In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- Harper's Weekly Magazine, January-December 1880 - <em>Harper's Weekly</em> began publishing in 1857. Published by Harper & Brothers, issues contained news articles, literary works, essays, and illustrations depicting life in America and around the world. <em> Harper's Weekly</em> ceased publication in 1916.
- January 1880-December 1880
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Harper's Weekly Magazine, January-December 1880
Harper's Weekly began publishing in 1857. Published by Harper & Brothers, issues contained news articles, literary works, essays, and illustrations depicting life in America and around the world. Harper's Weekly ceased publication in 1916.
- Home Arts Exhibit at Henry Ford Museum, 1979 -
- 1979
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Home Arts Exhibit at Henry Ford Museum, 1979