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 [...]
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 [...]
“A crisp, fresh, and daintily gotten up summer dress is as different as possible in appearance from a frock that has been badly laundered and carelessly starched and ironed; even though the latter may be much the handsomer garment of the two, the one that is properly ‘done up’ will be by far the most [...]
In the first 20 years of this century, magazines are filled with ads enticing the reader to take a trip to California.
The weather was wonderful all year round, they explained, and the state was full of scenic wonders and lots of outdoor activities. The ad above comes from the January 1910 issue of Good Housekeeping [...]
I love collecting vintage magazines, because they present such a broad picture (idealized, of course) of what social life was like in the past. They are full of the fashions, recipes, ads, and interests of the day. So I have decided to begin a recurring feature on this blog, in which I will focus on [...]
This ad for Mennen’s talcum powder appeared on the back cover of the August, 1906 issue of Good Housekeeping magazine. A woman tennis player is pictured and described as one of the “lovers of sports” which the ad is targeting.
“Lovers of sport and all sorts of outdoor life, know that a delicate skin is severely [...]
