WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION, JULY 1929

Object/Artifact

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Homestead Museum

Name/Title

"WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION," JULY 1929

Entry/Object ID

2004.204.1.1

Description

Color: Black; Blue; Red; White; Yellow "Woman's Home Companion," July 1929, published by The Crowell Publishing Company, Chicago. The 124-page artifact has the title at the top of the front cover with the issue date and price just below and on either side. A large image of a seated woman wearing a military-type outfit and the title of a fiction story and the author's name takes up most of the cover. The publisher's name is at the bottom center. Contents include fiction and poetry; special articles on such topics as the beneficial effects of the sun on babies; the gardens of George Washington at Mount Vernon; architecture and interior decoration; sewing and embroidery; meals and recipes; clothing and dress, including for vacations and summer wear; and others. Illustrations include some photographs and black and white and color drawings. Many advertisements are throughout. In good condition, the artifact has some corner and spine rubbing, spine bulges, folds on the lower right edge, losses at the bottom of the spine and the top of the back cover, silverfish damage to the front cover, scratches on the back cover, and tears at the right side of the front cover and left edges of the bottom of the back.

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Landscape gardening, Home economics, Interior decoration, Nutrition, Leisure

Search Terms

Three-dimensional, Magazines (periodicals), The Crowell Publishing Company, Fiction, Clothing and dress, Beauty, self, Presidents--United States

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Magazines (Periodicals)