PAGE FROM DEMOREST'S ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY, 1870.
Page from ladies fashion magazine: "Demorest's Illustrated Monthly" (New York: Demorest's Monthly Magazine, 1870). White paper and black ink. A print reproduction of a painting entitled "The Old Oaken Bucket" by Jerome Thompson. Landscape with a wooden house at center left and two children looking down a wooden well shaft at center foreground. Dirt road and fence are at bottom and center right. Title and artist are printed below the picture. Four lines of a poem printed at right and left of title. Page is blank on back. No page number. Page was ripped out of a magazine. Ragged bottom edge. Top edge is folded and has two deep tears. Yellowed. Slight acid burns. Overall physical condition and appearance is poor. Demorest's Illustrated used a fine-lined black and white border around the outside of each page in the magazine. Each issue had a distinct and different border with no repeats in a year. This page doesn't match 96.48.18-21. The Old Oaken Bucket [printed at bottom].
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