House Beautiful
The Fall Building Number, September 1929, and the cover won a prize: a whole hillside of little white houses seen from above, all gables and chimneys and no two of them alike.
⬇ FREE PDF · 62.2 MB — at archive.org ↗Home Arts & Homemaking
Needlework, patterns, recipes and a million small competent things.
The American Home
Ten cents, April 1929, volume two number one — a magazine for people who had just bought a house and now had to work out what to do about the garden.
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Building, planting, furnishing — May 1929, with a cut-paper garden on the cover and a ten-page portfolio of small houses folded in as an extra.
⬇ FREE PDF · 79.1 MB — at archive.org ↗Ladies’ Home Journal
Ten cents, June 1929, and the cover simply lists who is inside: Calvin Coolidge, Richard Halliburton, Zane Grey, Emily Post — and Gabrielle Chanel, all in the same issue.
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“The Magazine of the Middle West”, ten cents, January 1922 — illustrated needlework in colour on the cover and a million small competent things inside.
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A mother in a wing chair with her embroidery and a small girl on a footstool with hers, November 1928, ten cents. This is what a hundred-year-old evening actually looked like.
⬇ FREE PDF · 219.8 MB — at archive.org ↗McCall’s Magazine
The Holiday Number, January 1911 — “The Queen of Fashion”, a lady in furs walking through falling snow, and inside, patterns, recipes and firm opinions about hats.
⬇ FREE PDF · 11.2 MBThe Modern Priscilla
The Christmas number, December 1910, ten cents: a lady in white furs coming home through the snow with her arms full of parcels and a small boy carrying the rest of them. Needlework and gift-making inside.
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Ten cents, October 1927, a cross-stitch sampler in colour on the front. Household linens, crochet, home decoration and food facts — forty pages that quietly assume you can make things.
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