Name/Title
"THE RED BOOK" APRIL 1928Entry/Object ID
2002.194.1.1Description
Color: Black; Brown; Gold; Red; White
"The Red Book" April 1928 issue, published by The Consolidated Magazines Corporation, Chicago. The front cover has the price, date, and title at the top within a red field. Below is an image by Edna Crompton on a woman in profile, wearing a gold and brown trimmed cloche hat, a fur coat and a gold dress with a red floral corsage. In a white shield at the bottom left is the title and author of a featured fiction story within the magazine. Contents include three serialized novels, nine short stories, and seven other pieces dealing with current issues or history, including contributions by G. K. Chesterton and Eleanor Roosevelt on the family and women in politics, respectively. There are photographs and drawings or paintings as illustrations and many advertisements in the 172-page periodical. In fair condition, the artifact has cover abrasions, brittleness (particularly along the spine), creases, soiling, stains, and small tears; spine folds, flaking, small tears and losses; and some page discoloration.Lexicon
Search Terms
Three-dimensional, Magazines (periodicals), The Consolidated Magazines Corporation, Literature, American, Women in politicsLegacy Lexicon
Object Name
Magazines (Periodicals)