THE AMERICAN HOME, NOVEMBER 1929

Object/Artifact

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Homestead Museum

Name/Title

"THE AMERICAN HOME," NOVEMBER 1929

Entry/Object ID

2004.188.1.1

Description

Color: Black; Blue; Brown; Green; Red; White; Yellow "The American Home," November 1929, published by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. The front cover of the item has the title, issue price, and issue date at the top, with the price in a yellow field at the right edge. At the bottom is the publisher's name. In between is a color image of a living room scene and a large window through which is a fountain and garden. Articles include material on home libraries, color schemes, foreign homes, music as a decoration theme, household linens, radiators and other heating aspects, gardening, and other home and architecture related topics. There are many photographs, drawings, house planes and so on for illustration and there are many advertisements. In good condition, the artifact has spine, edge, and corner rubbing, brittleness to the cover at the spine bottom, creases throughout the cover and some page edges, dents at the top right corner, cover soiling, page yellowing, looseness at the bottom of the spine, losses at the spine ends and the back cover's bottom left corner, pencil marks near the top right of the front, a large liquid stain at the right edge all the way through and other small or light stains, staple tarnish, and tears at the spine and along the edges of the cover.

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Architecture, Interior decoration, Landscape gardening

Search Terms

Three-dimensional, Magazines (Periodicals), Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., House furnishings, Household linens

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Magazines (Periodicals)