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187616 pages. Contents: Spring Wrappings for Girls and Boys from 6 to 14 Years Old; The Old Clothes Men; Household Furniture - woman's share; New York Fashions - polonaises and mantles, mantles, gingham suits with Smyrna lace, pink and blue batistes, mor hints about dresses; Personal; embroidered foot-stool; Work-bag; Embroidered Work-bag; Monogram for lingerie, etc. - white embroidery; Section of cover for parasol - wrought guipure and lace stitch; How to Preserve the Hearing; Cravat End - silk braid, gold cord, and lace stitch; Ladies' House Dresses - illustraiton; As Long as She Lived! - continued; A.T. Stewart; Sayings and Doings; Spring bonnets; agrafes and buckle for bonnets; The Literary Lamtreatment of Music; Parasols; Head-dress of cream-colored serge ribbon; head-dress of pink serge ribbon; Ladies' and Children's Spring Wrappings and Dresses - illustration; Dill's Love Affair; Centennial Customs; Trellis-Work, etc.; A Right of Way; Great full-page illustration "" Right of Way" shows conflicting man-powered cabs and their fares; Lapland costuem; A Curious Sicilian Legend; Gold-Fish; humor. Average wear. Book
187116 pages. Contents: Lady's wrapper - front and back; Bridget; New York Fashions - cashmere wraps, cloth wraps, velvet garments, house jackets, fur cloaks; Personal; Point Lace Collar; Tatted and Point Lace Rosette for Lingerie, children's caps, etc.; tatted rosette for lingerie, children's caps, etc.; tapestry foundations; braided barathea jacket; cashmere jacket; crape fichu; Toys as Teachers; Hannah - continued; Ladies' Winter Wrappings - full page of great illustrations; The later revelations of Pompeii; Trimmed Dresses; Paris Modes; Ricardo's Benefit; Mrs. Charles Moulton; Irish guipure collar; passementerie trimmings for winter wrappings; Clocks and Watches; humor. Average wear. Book
187216 pages. Contents: Skin diseases caused by bad soaps; Cloaks and overcoats for girls and boys from 3 to 14 years old; The Wondering Heir; Manners Upon the Road - of the seasons; New York Fashions - double vests, new drapery, plain redingotes, black camel's-hair polonaises, polish jackets, mantelets, basques, embroidery, waistcoats, pompadour brocades, garlands, fanciful stockings; Personal; Cord and crochet passementerie border; tatted and crochet collars; knitted and crochet white worsted fanchon Tatted and crochet edging; knitted knee protectors; embroidered work-table; braid, cord, and soutache borders; knitted hood; The Bitter End - continued; Sayings and Doings; Knitted and crochet white worsted cape with hood; Swiss muslin and lace frill with Jabot; crape and lace frill with Jabot; Swiss muslin fichu; Paris Fashions; Better Late Than Never; English Gossip; Useful Recipes; Tatted edging for linterie; embroidered work-bag; toilette box with silk and cane cover; tapestry design for slippers; gros grain cravat bow; An Algerian Wedding; humor. Average wear. Book
187116 pages. Contents: frame-work worsted square shawl worn as a hood; All-Souls Day; Gossip; New York Fashions - crocheted and knitted garments; embroidery, guipure and point lace work; personal; Knitted Fanchon; knitted and crochet cap to wear under the bonnet; knitted lace for trimming mantelets, etc.; crochet stitches; Hannah - continued; Flowering Sunday; Sayings and doings; hood for girl from 8 to 10 years old; hood for girl from 10 to 12 years old; cashmere hood; tricot beaver hood; cashmere hood; cloth hood; flannel hood; ladies' winter wrappings; Nice large illustation of ladies' mantles and paletots; Octavia Hadleigh's Story; Paris Modes; The Value of Fiction; knitted loop stitch; crochet stitches; knitted foundation for shawls, scarfs, etc.; crochet border; crochet stitch; crochet border for goods, capes, jackets, etc.; crochet stitch for jacket with short sleeves; Spray-Work; humor. Average wear. Book
186916 pages. Contents: Winter Street and Opera Toilettes - cover illustration; Family Geniuses; Manners Upon the Road - of Philosophy; New York Fashions - furst, mink, sable, seal-skin, astrakhan and persiani, ermine and white fox, children's furs, furs for gentlemen, carriage robes, opera cloaks and carriage wraps; Personal; Borders for Fichus, jackets, hoods, etc.; crochet hexagon for cover, knitted hexagon for cover, crochet stitch for under-skirts; fringes for trimming capes, hoods, etc.; Girl's Crochet collar; Lady's knitted and crochet mitten; Grandpapa's Story - a Thanksgiving Episode; Great centerfold compilation of humorous Thanksgiving illustrations; Paris Fashions; Charles Mathews; Debenham's Vow - continued; Nice Thanksgiving full-page illustration with young lady praying; humor. Average wear. Clipping from first page. Book
187416 pages. Contents: Ladies' and Children's Winter Wrappings and Suits; Statuary in Transparency; Etching on Ivory; Husband and Wife; Disturbances among old Furniture; New York Fashions - winter wraps; further hints about dresses, evening dresses, garniture and coiffures; Personal; Double Christian Names; Gros Grain and Camel's-Hair House Dress; Gray Poult de Soi Dress; Velocity of Nervous Transmission; The Flower of Bernay - a short story of Bernay de L'eure; Sayings and Doings; Great centerfold image "Ladies' Winter Dresses"; English Gossip; Palm-Trees and Their Products; Lost for Love - continued; Passementerie borders and rosette for trimming dresses, wrappings, etc.; A Tour in Switzerland; humor. Average wear. Book
187216 pages. Contents: Ladies' and children's fall dresses; ladies' fall and winter suits; A Future Style; Manners Upon the Road - of honesty and policy; New York Fashions - the princess polonaise, the double talma and apron-front suit, the dolman suit, the scarf mantle, velvets, passementerie ornaments, wool goods; Personal; Needle-work medallions for cravat ends; child's crochet caps; hem-stitching for lingerie; ladies' fall hats and bonnets; tatted and crochet edging and insertions; needle-work insertion and trimming for lingerie; Paris Gossip; Victoire's Faith; Sayings and Doings; Ladies' Fall and Winter Suits - nice full page illustration; Capture of a Shark in the Tropics; To the Bitter End - continued; Lady's Walking Dress; Prince Charles in Hiding - with nice illustration; Red; humor. Average wear. Book
188620 pages. Contents: Autumn and Winter Toilettes; The Care of a French-flat kitchen; Small Selfishnesses; Women and emN - the winter school of slang; Family living on $500 a year - part XLII; New York Fashions - French dresses, French toilettes in wool; skirts and draperies, basques and drimmings, polonaises, prevailing colors, carriage costumes; Personal; Galloon for trimming hats and bonnets; Bulgarian wedding ceremonies; An English Hospital - with illustrations; Paston Carew - Millionaire and Miser - continued; Paris Fashion; Nice centerfold illustration "Winter Wrappings"; Mrs. Beardsley; The Woodlanders - continued; How to Judge a Horse; The Maldives Islands; humor. Above-average wear. Pattern included. Book
187216 pages. Contents: general directions for knitting and crocheting, etc.; knitted and crochet white zephyr worsted jacket; A New Use for skeleton leaves; The Kitchen; Manners Upon the Road - of putting the best foot forward; New York Fashions - bronze and blue costumes, the princess polonaise, dinner dresses, black silk suits, the dolman polonaise, evening dresses, wedding dresses, bound hats; knitted Alsacian bow; lady's knitted under-vest; crochet petticoat; knitted under-shirt for girl from 4 to 6 years old; Paris Fashions; That Switch; English Gossip; Sayings and Doings; crochet cap for boy from 2 to 4 years old; knitted hood, also warn as a fichu; directions for cutting and making night-shirt for boy from 6 to 8 years old; Blue; London's Heart - continued; Illustration "Steaming and punting on the Thames, England; knitted and netted fanchon; trimming and fringe for hoods, jackets, sontags, etc.; crochet stitches for jackets, capes, sontags, etc.; humor. Average wear. Small clipping from page 653. Book
187216 pages. Contents: Lady's and Child's Dresses; Home-made carpets; Drying Flowers in the Sand; Siesta; Manners Upon the Road - of Safety-Valves; New York Fashions - wraps, the dolman, the sacque with cape, yak lace, house sacques, opera cloaks, the national dress trimming; Box for ironing utensils; Cover for Flat-Iron; Alphabet for marking Linen; Breakfast Caps - many nice illustrations; London's Heart; Service; Sayings and Doings; Fantastic centerfold consists of dozens of illustrations of shirts, caps, under-drawers, chemises, collars, etc.; At Rye - by Harriet Prescott Spofford; Paris Fashions; Niss Nilsson's Last Appearance - with illustration "Christine Nilsson's Last Night at Drury Lane Theatre, London"; Subsitute for Cream; Needle-work and tatted chemise yokes; buttons and button-holes for lingerie; needle-work, point lace, and crochet borders, rosettes, insertions, and edgings for lingerie; humor. Average wear. Clipping from cover page. Large clipping from page 619. Book
188616 pages. Contents: Ascot Toilettes - cover illustrations; Between Husband and Wife; Women and Men - who shall fix the value?; Family Living on $500 a Year - XXXIV; New York Fashions - autumn dress goods, pin-striped woollens, braid stripes, pomponettes, beaded corded and velvet stripes, plain wools and black stuffs, silk velvets, plaids and cross-bars, cloakings, dress trimmings; Personal; British Water Birds - illustration; British Land Birds - illustration; Open-air preaching by the sea-side - article and super centerfold illustration; The Woodlanders - continued; Paston Carew, Millionaire and Miserj - continued; Summer Beverages; A Lover of Flowers, by Mary Wilkins; Decorative hints from Mount Desert and the Adirondacks; Unwritten Laws; Quiet Obsequies; Watering-place Toilettes; Table Mat - canvas embroidery and plush; a bit of ancient court gossip; chair back with embroidered band; summer toilettes; corsages; some German sweetmeats; humor. Average wear and soiling Book
187116 pages. Contents: Before the Doctor Comes - boils, carbuncles, and felons; Suits for girsl and boys from 4 to 15 years old; Regimen of Travel; New York Fashions - French Cashmere, English fabrics, Cicillian cloth, widow's silk, fall shawls, cloth and cashmere wraps, house jackets, velvets, opera cloaks; Personal; Watch-case; Dressing-case; Carriage leather music port-folio; suit for girl from 3 to 5 years old; corners of tapestry borders for covers, cushions, etc.; suit for girl from 10 to 12 years old; suit for girl from 7 to 9 years old; bows for slippers; drilling and crochet clothes-bag; tatted and crochet fringe; Nursing as a Profession for Ladies; The Lovels of Arden - continued; Fall hats and bonnets - many illustrations; Vague People; Seeing the World; The Gipsy's Glass; Useful Recipes; Large illustration "Croquet Under Difficulties"; Crape sprays for trimming hats; Lady's Walking Suit; Lady's house dress; Women in the French Revolution; humor. Average wear. Book
187116 pages. Contents: Cover illustration of an Apron-Polonaise Walking Suit.; The Jewel of Constistency, by Gail Hamilton; New York Fashions - The Apron Polonaise, Imported Suits, Spring Paletots; Personal; Tapestry Border for Chairs, Sofas, etc.; Neglige basket trimmed with ruches; Brioche with cloth and knitted cover; Netted Guipure Edging; Trimming for blouses, lingerie, etc.; Hannah (continued); Old Ladies' Flowers; Bizarre full-page illustration shows new bride and groom emerging from church... but bride is an elephant!; Illustration on page 201 has been removed; Familiy breakfasts and dinners - recipes; Sayings and Doings; Common Ugliness; Tricks of Countenance; April Showers - with illustration; Humor on back cover; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Magazine
186916 pages. Contents: Infant's Baptismal Robe with Netted Guipure Trimming; Looking into the future; Blot-ting Papers; New York Fashions - Misses and children's dresses; Personal; Tyrolean hat; Apron for girl from 1 to 3 years old; Netted Guipure Insertion; Embroidered Flannel Cradle Blanket; Stuart FraiseMuslin and Lace Fraise; Where do some things come from; The perfect man; Baschlik trimmed with gold braid; Debenham's Vow - continued; Sayings and Doings; Lovely jackets and dresses in two large illustrations on page 792; Basque for elderly lady; Dress with bretelles and sash; Mothers of men; The art of coaxing; Paris Gossip; Sir Philip's Wooing, by Babington White; Humor; and more. Average wear. Book
186916 pages. Contents: Jacket tripped with gold braid; Blot-Ting Papers - Culinary Grievances; Holiday Gifts; Cashmere Scarf with Netted Guipure Trimming; Beret for Child under one year old; Cashmere scarf with crochet and tatted fringe; fishu with revers for girl from 4 to 6 years old; Satin Ribbon and Lace Cravat; Flanel Blouse; Close-fitting jacket with Revers; The Evergreen Message - a Christmas Story; Gossip on Crests and Monograpms; Mrs. Burton's Mince-Meat; Centerfold illustrations present twenty-one girls and ladies wearing a lovely variety of dresses and casaques; Debenham's Vow - continued; Design for bell pull satin stitch; Humor; and more. Average wear. Book
187016 pages. Contents: Ladies' and Children's Toilettes - cover illustration; Bringing up Parents; New York Fashions - spring bonnets, spring silks for suits, other spring fabrics, a new trimming; Personal; Cravats; Silk Cravat with Tatted Ends; Crochet Cravat End - Irish Guipure; Corners of Netted Guipure and Crochet Borders; Plaid Talma; Hats and Bonnets; Coiffure for Young Married Lady; Feather Fan; Crochet fringe borders; Powder box; Paris Fashions; Hannah's Quilting; Whitewash; Sayings and Doings; Lovely illustration of a fancy dress ball; Interesting illustration of a pantomime party; Debenham's Vow - continued; Lovely walking dress; Pacific Railway Dining Car - nice illustration on-board the dining car on the Union Pacific Railway; humor; and more. Average wear. Book
187016 pages. Contents: The Song of the Wind; Cover photo of winter wrappings for children from 1 to fourteen years old; Little Things; Manners Upon the Road; New York Fashions - winter wrappings, winter bonnets, round hats, kid gloves, new fabrics; Personal; Sweets of Married Life; Cravats, Fichus, Collars; Velvet hats and bonnets; Margaret's Share; Uncongeniality; Gorgeous centerfold illustraions of Ladies' Winter Wrappings; The Cryptogram - continued; Before leaving for the war - illusration of a praying scene in Brittany; Crochet and Passementerie Trimmings for Winter Wrappings; Silk Cord Edging; Crochet Edging; Silk Cord Edging; Passementerie and Crochet Trimmings for winter wrappings; Humor; and more. Average wear. Book
186916 pages. Contents: General instructions for Knitting and Crochet Work; Girls' Crochet Hoods; New York Fashions - winter bonnets, chatelaine braids, head-dresses, jet and gold, feather trimmings; Personal; Girl's Crochet Boa; Crochet under-skirt for child from 1 to 3 years old; Embroidered borders; First Love; Lovely fashion hoods - but there is a small clipping from this page (741); Paris Modes; Schiller's Nose; Sayings and Doings; Felt Round Hat; Velvet Round Hat; Artot Bonnet; Children at Church; Bonnets; Debenham's Vow - continued; Paris Gossip; crochet and netted fanchon with ruche trimming; velvet muff with knitted strips; Netted trimming for fanchons, fichus, etc.; Lady's Knitted Vest; Crochet Stitches for Hoods, Fichus, etc.; Blunders of Old Masters; Humor; and more. Average wear. Book
186916 pages. Contents: Cover illustrations of Paletots; Before the Doctor Comes; Chances of Marriage; A Stick of Candy; New York Fashions - cloaks, velvet and its garnitures, cloth cloakings, plush and cashmere, prices; personal; Passementerie Cloak Trimmings; How We Parted - by Annie Thomas; Wonderful centerfold shows nineteen women wearing various mantelets; Debenham's Vow - continued; Father Hyacinthe; Serpentine Braid and Crochet Collar; Humor; and more. Average wear. 9" x 5" clipping from page 718. Book
186916 pages. Contents: Gros Grain Dress with High Waist; Bliss of Ignorance; New York Fashions - Velveteens, Trimming Velvets, Cashmere, Crinoline and Balmorals, Sashes and Cravat Bows, Laces Frills and Linen Collars, Jewelry, Gloves; Embroidered Silk Tobacco Pouch; Embroidered Silk Work or Key Basket; Embroidered Cover for Bible, Prayer-book, etc.; Fall Bonnets; Gros Grain Dress with High Waist; How to Talk; Bound to John Company - continued; Paris Fashions; Walking Dresses; Muslin Blouse; Muslin Blouse Waist; Sayings and Doings; Debenham's Vow - continued; Full-page humorous illustration of family scene called "Laid up in Ordinary"; Humor; and more. Beige staining to all pages. Average wear. Book
186916 pages. Contents: Mantelet with Hood; Black Lace Mantelet; How to Make True French Dolls; Ceasing to Grow; Sympathy with Sickness; Manners upon the road; New York Fashions - fall bonnets, materials, feathers, flowers, ribbons, the scarf veil, manner of trimming, round hats, fall wrapping; different trimmings for under clothing; Embroidered Chemise Yoke; Two Buttons for under clothing; Basket with Netted Guipure Cover; Crochet Rosettes; Rosettes for Covers; Braid and Crochet Insertions adn Edgings; The Line of Distinction; Paris Fashions; The Woman of the Future; Sayings and Doings; Amazing centerfold compilation of illustrations of dozens of clothing items including lady's drawers with shirr, lady's ttucked night-gown, peignoir with full sleeves, gentleman's under-drawers, Lady's chemise fastening on the shoulder, Pique dressing sack, and many more; Miss Maquand; Foreign proper names; Debenham's Vow - continued; Lovely large illustration of Lady Jane Grey; Woman's political rights in England; Humor; and more. Above-average wear. Book
187016 pages. Contents: Trained Evening Dress (on cover); Mouldy Lemons; New York Fashions - millinery, frou frou gauze, lace, flowers, feathers, jet ornaments, round hats, Personal; 4"x4" chunk missing from top corner of page 595; Antimacassar of serpentine braid lace stitch, and crochet; Embroidered honey-comb coverlet; House and street dresses; Tulle Foundation for Blouses, Veils, Fichus; Crochet Rosette; Ladies' and Children's House and Street Dresses; Art of Bouquet Making; Out of the forest - a Story of Hungary - part IV; Pickles; Sayings and Doings; Two large beautiful illustrations by Edouard Dubufe entitled "The Conscript's Departure' and"The Conscript's Return"; For the Ugly Girls - No. IV; Paris Modes; The Cryptogram - continued; Morning in the desert; "Peaches and Milk" - nice illustration of two black children drawn by W.L. Sheppard; What One can Hit Upon; Humor; and more. Average wear. Book
1945Contents: Nice color Nash car ad inside front cover; Great color ad for Packard cars; Color ad for White trucks; Szilard and Oppenheimer scoff at plans to keep the atomic bomb secret; J. Edgar Hoover foresees biggest crime wave; Fascinating story about U.S./Arab political machinations re: support for a Jewish commonwealth in Palestine; Photo of Maryland man legally flogged for beating his wife; Money for Spies; Runaway inflation turns clock of Europe back to Barter Age - cigarette becomes medium of exchange in the large cities; Brass says yes, Braid says no in fight over merging services - navy prefers independence; Centerfold Buick auto ad; Death in the streets of Caracas; Spurtin production foreshadows hottest sales rivalry in history; Truman forgets he's President - has Capital newsmen in a dither; Excellent color Caterpillar Diesel ad - 'Mountain Moving Done Here'; Motorola radio ad. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
1983Features: The Class of '82 - Tools of the Trade; Historic Preservation in Miniature; The Tiniest Doll Maker - Joyce Lynch; Making Minis Your Business - Janna Joseph; The Geometry of Marble Flooring; Stitch a Stewart Chair Seat; Cross Stitch Candlewicking workshop; Joann's Glass Tinsel Painting; Room of the Month - Sundaes 'n Sugar Cones, Part II; Bob Porter teaches Trimming; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
1983Features: A Victorian Christmas Fantasy - combining antiques and found items in Hollywood style; Carold Atkinson's 1/12th" Scale Therapy - furnishing a dollhouse kept her sane; Betty Blasi's Miniature Menagerie; Mark Marshall's Little Town of Middletown, Ohio; Going "Home for the Holidays" in West Virginia; Helen Cohen's Victorian Principles; A Christmas Dream Come True- Jeri Floor and her Santa's Workshop; A Modeler's Mementoes of a Bygone Era - recreating Pittsburgh's turn of the century architecture; Blending the Old and New in New City; Deck the Heavenly Halls - Betsy Rouse creates a tree trimming party; A Dickensian Christmas Feast - recipes for foods on this month's cover; La Belle Epoch - a Lost Paradise - enjoying the best life has to offer; Contemporary Living - furniture for today's living; Joann's Flowering Christmas; Playthings of the Past - Part II - make an old-fashioned ring toss game; Room of the Month - Compu-Christmas - The "Apple" of this busy holiday baker's eye is a computer!; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine