On this, the last day of my Thanksgiving holiday entries, I decided to finish with a subject that even today would scare me if I actually had to bake the turkey myself. I am referring to the way to carve a turkey. The November 1907 issue of Delineator magazine had pages full of Thanksgiving articles, [...]
In only a few weeks, Thanksgiving will arrive here in the United States. From now until then, I will be posting some Thanksgiving recipes and tips from vintage magazines. Some of the recipes sound so outrageous today that I doubt anyone will even attempt to recreate them, but others actually sound quite good and may [...]
I came across this story in the August 1906 issue of Good Housekeeping magazine, and was very surprised at what I was reading. This is a story written from the point of view of the husband of a woman who has decided to get in shape, to “look like Edna May,” who was a famous [...]
Most of us are probably well aware of the catastrophic earthquake that struck in San Francisco on April 18, 1906. and the fire that followed. I have always been particularly fascinated with it, and have countless books and dvd’s about the incident. So I was especially excited when I opened an issue of the Burr [...]
Sorry it has been so slow around here lately. I’ve been away on vacation for a little over a week, and before that was preparing for the trip and for finishing things up at work, so I haven’t been able to post. (My vacation photos are here if you’d like to see them - they [...]
“Close adjustment about the hips and a wide flare around the bottom remain the distinguishing characteristics of the most approved skirts.”
This news about the latest fashions trends of 1901 comes from that November’s issue of the Delineator magazine. I love the Delineator because each issue is full of colorful fashion plates, fashion news, and loads [...]
Normally, I only post images that I scan into the computer directly from my own collection of ephemera. However, I have become so enamoured of these early color photographs that I had to share some of these images I found online! Believe it or not, the photo above was taken in 1910, in Savannah, Georgia. [...]
Many of the products we use around the house today were in existence for quite a long time! One example of this is Vaseline, as seen in the vibrant ad above that I found in the December 1919 issue of The Woman’s Magazine. However, as the ad shows, Vaseline came in several different formulas at [...]
Whenever I see a complete pattern for a vintage clothing item in my old magazines, I always wish I could crochet or knit. When I saw these gorgeous jackets in the August 1910 issue of McCall’s magazine, I especially longed to make them. I think they would add such a great vintage touch to so [...]
I was very surprised to see that a riding lawn mower like this existed a hundred years ago! As you can see, it was made by the Coldwell Lawn Mower Company. The company is no longer in existence; I tried my best to find more information on this model but everything similar I found seemed [...]
