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Tag Archives: 1893

Beautiful Ladies Home Journal Covers

14-Jan-10

In writing the last entry on the Fifth Avenue Hotel, I couldn’t stop admiring the cover of the June 1896 magazine that my source article came from. The magazine was the Ladies Home Journal, and I happen to have a handful of these magazines from the late nineteenth century. The covers are absolutely gorgeous, and [...]

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Housewives At Work

20-Nov-08

As seen in an earlier entry, women in the early part of the century did work outside of the home, in business settings. However, a great majority of middle-class married women worked inside the home. With or without a maid, there was plenty of cleaning and physical labor to do in order to keep the [...]

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