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The Delineator.











 The Delineator
Women's fashion and fabric magazine. Subjects include health, housing, home economics, travel, gardening, education, literature, and photography.
  • 1901, November (Volume 58, Issue 5)
  • 1901, December (Volume 58, Issue 6)
Dorcas Magazine.





 Dorcas Magazine
Knitting and crocheting periodical founded in the nineteenth century. Subjects include living conditions, dress, health, housing, recreation, and home economics.
  • 1885, February
  • 1885, April
  • 1885, May
  • 1885, June
  • 1885, August
  • 1885, October
  • 1885, December
  • 1886, January
Ladies' Home Journal.





 Ladies' Home Journal
Popular women's magazine founded in the nineteenth century. Subjects include art, literature, business, public service, education, religion, living conditions, home economics, health, housing, and recreation.
  • 1892, October (Volume IX, Number II). Selected contents:
    • "A View of The Rookwood Pottery: Founded by a Woman," by Maude Haywood (p.3)
    • "Literary Women in Their Homes: Margaret Deland," by Marguerite Merington (p.7)
    • "Unknown Wives of Well-known Men: Mrs. Oscar Wilde," by Arthur Pickering (p.12)
  • 1896, March (Volume XIII, Number 4). Selected contents:
    • "Off For Dancing School," drawings by Kate Greenaway (pg.15)
    • "Spring Gowns and Colors," by Emma Hooper (p.24)
    • "The New Gowns of Eastertide," by Isabel Mallon (p.25)
    • "Victoria Bicycles," advertisement by Will Bradley (p.29)
    • [Back Cover] "The Modern Cleanser," Pearline advertisement by Louis J. Rhead (p.42)
  • 1896, November (Volume XIII, Number 12). Selected contents:
    • [Front Cover] by R.A. Bell
    • "The Vocal Student," by Nellie Melba (p.2)
    • "When Jenny Lind Sang in Castle Garden," by A. Oakey Hall (p.3)
    • "The Assistant Librarian Pro Tem.," by Robert C.V. Meyers (p.5)
    • "A Bookshop in the Kitchen," by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (p.10)
    • "The Truth About Marriage," by A.D.T. Whitney (p.11)
    • "The Picnic Tea," drawings by Kate Greenaway (p.13)
  • 1901, July (Volume XVIII, Number 8). Selected contents:
    • [Front Cover] "A Busy Boston Street at High Noon," by W.L. Taylor
    • "The Foremost Women Photographers in America," by Frances and Mary Ellen (p.13)
    • "The Case against the Editor," by Edward Bok (p.14)
    • "A Small House with 'Lots of Room in it'," by Frank Lloyd Wright (p.15)
    • "Simple Vacation Dresses for Girls" (p.25)
  • 1903, December (Volume XXI, Number 1). Selected contents:
    • "Is there a Santa Claus?" By Jacob A. Riis (p.6)
    • "The Dinner = Table on Christmas Day," by Hester Price, May Marriott, and Mary Ford (p.17)
    • "How Christmas made a Town," by Edward Bok (p.18)
    • "The Christmas Dining = Room" (p.29)
    • "Christmas Sweets and Christmas Menus," by Mrs. S.T. Rorer (p.30)
    • "How the Christmas Dishes should look," by Hester Price (p.31)
    • "A Christmas Heart to Heart Talk with Girls," by Margaret Sangster (p.42)
    • "Aprons as Christmas gifts" (p.59)
    • "Christmas party dresses for girls," by Katherine Holden (p.61)
  • 1904, August (Volume XXI, Number 9). Selected contents:
    • [Front Cover] by Frank Guild
    • "How six girls worked their way through college: told by the girls themselves" (p.22)
    • "Miss Parloa gives 30 more hints as to how to be comfortable at home" (p.26)
    • "The girl from twelve to eighteen" (p.35)
    • "Little men and women getting ready for school" (p.36)
    • "Mrs. Holden's talks with the girl who makes her own clothes" (p.38)
    • [Back Cover] Cream of Wheat advertisement (p.42)
  • 1905, August (Volume XXII, Number 9). Selected contents:
    • "Advance fall fashion number"
    • [Front cover] by Thomas Mitchell Peirce
    • "The best of the Cole and Johnson Negro songs" (p.19)
    • "Alice in Wonderland Sofa-Pillows," by Peter Newell (p.21)
    • "$15 a week for a family of four," by Maria Parloa (p.26)
    • "The girl who makes her own clothes," by Edith Gardner (p.34)
    • "New gowns for the autumn" (p.37)
    • "The new coats and suits for winter" (p.38)
    • "New shirtwaists and blouses" (p.39)
    • "Dresses for boarding-school" (p.41)
    • "The new school clothes," by Mrs. Ralston (p.42)
    • [Back Cover] Cream of Wheat advertisement (p.46)
  • 1907, February (Volume XXIV, Number 3). Selected contents:
    • [Front Cover] by Mary Stokes
    • "Between the liens. The diary of a young girl," by Roy Rolfe Gilson (p.7)
    • "How shall we heat and light our houses?," by Max and May West (p.17)
    • "When men come in, it complicates the problem for girls who seek world careers," by Maude L. Radford (p.19)
    • "Good taste and bad taste in couches" (p.39)
    • "Clothes for mourning," by Emily Claxton (p.64)
    • "Useful housework dresses" (p.65)
    • "Little Girls' Guimpe dresses" (p.66)
    • "For the young girls" (p.67)
    • "The girl who makes her own clothes," by Katherine Holden (p.68)
    • "Little boys' bloomer suits" (p.69)
    • [Back Cover] Colgate Talc Powder advertisement with painting by Blendon Campbell (p.75)
New England Offering. The Lowell Offering
(Continued by the Lowell Offering and Magazine)
"A repository of original articles on various subjects, written by factory operatives." Edited by A.C. Thomas. The most prominent of several magazines produced by New England factory employees. This small literary magazine, which was written, edited, and published by the female operatives of the Lowell, Massachusetts, woolen mills, was concerned with labor conditions, and attracted international attention among students of social and economic problems. Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900.
  • 1840, October-1841, March (Nos. 1-4)
  • 1841, April (Series 2, Volume 1)
  • 1842, September (Series 2, Volume 2)

The Lowell Offering and Magazine
(Continues the Lowell Offering [above]. Continued by the Lowell Offering [below])

  • 1842, October-December (Volume 3)
  • 1843, January-September (Volume 3)

The Lowell Offering
(Continues the Lowell Offering and Magazine. Continued by The New England Offering)

  • 1843, November-December (Volume 4)
  • 1844, January-October (Volume 4)
  • 1845, January-December (Volume 5)

The New England Offering
(Continues the Lowell Offering)

  • 1848, April-December
  • 1849, January-November
  • 1850, January-March
Operatives' Magazine.





 The Operatives' Magazine
(Continued by The Operatives' Magazine, and Lowell Album)
Literary magazine published by textile workers in Lowell, Massachusetts. Affiliated with the Lowell Offering
  • 1841, May-June 1841 (Volume 1)

The Operatives' Magazine, and Lowell Album
(Continues The Operatives' Magazine)

  • 1841, August (Volume 1, Issue 5)
New England Home Magazine.





 The New England Home Magazine
Boston morning journal, which is published Monday-Saturday as the Boston morning journal. Supplement to the Boston Sunday Journal. Subjects include literature, poetry, medicine, education, living conditions, dress, recreation, and biography.
  • 1898, November 13 (Volume 5, Issue 7)
  • 1901, June 30 (Volume 5, Issue 13)
Rumford Kitchen Leaflets.

 Rumford Kitchen Leaflets (Boston, 1899)
Set of 20 leaflets originally prepared as handouts to accompany the Rumford Kitchen exhibit (part of the Massachusetts Exhibit) at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. The leaflets are published in this volume as written in 1893. Nos. 1 and 6 (by Ellen H. Richards) are reprinted from the American kitchen magazine.
  • Issues 1-20
Woman's Home Companion. Woman's Home Companion
Women's magazine founded in the nineteenth century. Subjects include art, literature, business, public service, social reform, medicine, employment, religion, living conditions, education, vocational training, dress, family relations, food, health, housing, recreation, home economics, social movements, clubs, philanthropy, poetry, and biography.
  • 1899, September. Selected contents:
    • "Finding her place," by Sallie White (p.10)
    • "Women as private secretaries," by Virginia Peacock (p.15)
    • "Cookery for girls," by Sallie White (p.18)
  • 1900, February (Volume 17, Issue 2). Selected contents:
    • "The benefits of business training for women," by Hetty Green (p.8)
    • "Florence Nightingale, the soldier's friend," by Frank Vizetely (p.13)
    • "Woman and the automobile," by Waldon Fawcett (p.14)
    • "The newest things in neckwear," by L.C. Freeman (p.23)
    • "House-jackets and dressing-sacques," by Marie Jonreau (p.27)
    • "The two-family house as an investment," by George Keith (p.34)
  • 1903, March Selected contents:
    • "Delia, Daughter of Mary," by Juliet Tompkins (p.13)
    • "Smart touches for spring shirt-waists," by Grace Gould (p.18)
    • "Stylish and practical frocks for school-girls," by Grace Gould (p.22)
  • 1909, January (Volume 36, Issue 1). Selected contents:
    • [Front Cover] by Anna Milo Upjohn
    • "The story of Geraldine Farrar. Intimate facts concerning the young American prima donna with a toast," by Kate Douglas Wiggin (p.17)
    • "Training and untrained nursing. For the girl who earns her own living," by Anna Steese Richardson (p.35)
    • "Look forward, and not back," by Margaret Sangster (p.36)
    • "Dates, figs and prunes," by Fannie Merritt Farmer (p.49)
    • "Embroidered dimity lingerie," by Evelyn Parsons (p.56-57)
    • "The Directoire Ties and girdle, (p.58)
    • "The fashion department. A simple dinner gown," by Grace Margaret Gould (p.59-63)
    • [Back Cover] "Jenny Lind Singing at Castle Garden in 1851," Victor Talking Machine Co. advertisement (p.66)
  • 1915, July (Volume 42, Issue 7). Selected contents:
    • "Outdoor Girl Number."
    • [Front Cover] by Molly Sale Covey
    • "The Outdoor Girl: The girl who swims, the girl who goes camping, the girl and the garden," by C.H. Claudy (p.5)
    • "The country woman's opportunities: in church work, in the rural schools, in a club of her own, for country boys and girls, in neighborhood social life," by Frank Waugh (p.18)
    • "The camping caravan." Designed by William J. Albin (p.19)
    • "Two page ad for the 1916 Overland automobile (in color) (p.26-27)
    • Grape-Nuts advertisement (full-page, color) (p.33)
    • Coca Cola advertisement (full-page) (p.34)
    • "The fashion department by Grace Margaret Gould" (p.43)
    • "Clothes for maternity wear" (p.44)
    • "Underwear for the little girl" (p.45)
    • "Clothes for garden work" (p.46)
    • "Designs for tub fabrics" (p.47)
    • "Cross-stitch for the man's room" (p.48)
    • "Two embroidered Cretonne sets" (p.49)
    • "Filet crochet trimmings" (p.50)
    • New Perfection Cook Stoves advertisement (full-page, color) (p.55)
    • [Back Cover] Williams Talc powder advertisement (full-page, color) (p.56)
  • 1921, October (Volume 48, Issue 10). Selected contents:
    • [Front Cover] by Neysa McMein
    • "What every employer wants," by Helen M. Bennett (p.4)
    • "Woman's place in politics. An interview with Alice M. Robinson. The only woman representative in Congress," by Marguerite Mooers Marshall (p.15)
    • "Half-a-dozen wearable ready mades" (p.62)
    • "Neysa McMein designs a wearable dress" (p.77)
Woman's Magazine.

 The Woman's Magazine
Young woman's magazine founded in the nineteenth century. Subjects include literature, public service, education, religion, unpaid household work, living conditions, education, family relations, food, health, home economics, social movements, suffrage, biography, and poetry.
  • 1888, May (Volume 11, No. 9)
  • 1888, June (Volume 11, No. 10)
  • 1889, February (Volume 12, No. 5)
  • 1889, April (Volume 12, No. 7)
Woman's Work.

 Woman's Work:A Journal Devoted to the Employments of Women
Journal founded in the late nineteenth century about women's employment. Subjects include industrial work, food industry, handicraft workers, textile workers, professional workers, authors, business, medicine, physicians, unpaid household work, education, vocational training, working conditions, and New York City.
  • 1885, May (Volume 1, No. 6)