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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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The Fifth Avenue Hotel, 1896

10-Jan-10

In reading the June 1896 issue of Ladies’ Home Journal, I came across a fascinating article about how a large hotel was run. The hotel was the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City, and after doing some quick research, I discovered that it was a very well-known and popular hotel at around the turn [...]

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Caring for the Sick Family Member

24-Nov-08

I work for a home medical equipment company, so naturally an ad about vintage home medical equipment was going to catch my eye! Above, you can see a 1910 ad (from the September 15 edition of Ladies’ Home Journal) featuring the Wallace Adjustable Invalid Bed. The ad boasted that “the Wallace Adjustable Bed is the [...]

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