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Features: Transforming the Food Axis - Houses, Tools, Modes of Analysis; Machines in Suburban Gardens - the 1936 T. Eaton Company Architectural Competition for House Designs; Tompkinsville, Cape Breton Island - Co-operativism and Vernacular Architecture; Slag Houses in a Steel City; British Army Officer Housing in Upper Canada, 1784-1841; Managing Household Pests the Old-Fashioned Way - Defenses against pest damages in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Also includes the following exhbit reviews: Love, Leisure and Laundry - Why Housework Just Won't Go Away; Finding a Space for Children and Their History; Power and Planning - Industrial Towns in Quebec, 1890-1950. Seven book reviews. and more. Average wear. Former library copy with usual markings. A sound copy. Book
Contents: U.S. Riots - photo of burned plant in Erie and an arrest in Minneapolis; Photo of Javits with Nelson Rockefeller; Time Essay - Violence in America; Hong Kong Leftsits arrested in raid; Negro women eating boxes of laundry starch!; The Turkish Tycoons of Soul - Wexler, Nesuhi & Ahmet Ertugun; Eight pages of photos of tourism in the USSR: Pentacostal Tongues and Converts; Photo of Joe Frazier after defeating George Chuvalo; Photo of Leo Durocher; Drunks in the Bowery; Dissolving Silver for Kodak Film - silver price coming alive; and much more. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
170 pages. Black and white photos. "Author was assigned to the Mobile Laundry and Bath Unit during the Korean war. It was his responsibility to move huge vans and personnel to locations near the Front where there was some form of running water, so he could provide weary troops with the luxury of a shower and clean clothing. The process of locating these sites was in itself an adventure." - from back cover. Bookmark custom-made for this book and bearing author's hand-printed name is laid inside front cover. In his retirement, Mr. Ringma served as a highly popular Reform Party MP and Opposition Whip in the Canadian House of Commons. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Excellent copy. Book
191623074Paris François Tedesco 1916 In-folio Année 1916, semble complète de ses patrons mais sur les premiers numéros, ils semblent avoir été utilisés et ne sont plus dans leur état d'origine, on y joint dans le brochage le numéro d'octobre 1917 quelques couvertures déchirées sans manque et restauration de quelques ff
189612416Paris, Librairie Guillaumin ; Lyon, Auguste Cote (Montbrison, Imprimerie Eleuthere Brassart), 1896 ; in-12, broché ; (6), (1) f. blanc, II, (1) f. blanc, 148 pp., 1 tableau dépliant ; couverture grise imprimée.
2004EEzz6814bDornbirn, Margit Denz 2004. 47 S. mit zahlreichen farb. Abb., OPpbd. mit montiertem Porzellanobjekt (Brustwarze), ohne Strumpfband, leicht lichtrandig, innen einwandfrei. Eines von 1000 von Margit Denz signierten u. numerierten Exemplaren
14 pages. Contents: Cover Illustration "Child's Gabrielle Dress and Walking Coat and Ladies' Summer Dresses"; Politeness at Home; Manners Upon the Road - of summer friends; New York Fashions; Nice illustration "The Peddler"; Births in Holland; Hugh Damer's Last Leger - continued; Handkerchief with tatted border; fringe for trimming coverlets, curtains, etc.; crochet rosette for covers, lingerie; Medallions for cigar-cases, etc.; cover for prayer-books, bibles; Hair Dressing - with illustrations; A Very Natural Flower; Chat from the Capital; Useful Recipes; The Empress Augusta - full-page illustration; Invalidism; Notable Sleepers; humor. Average wear. Page 420 loose but present. Book
16 pages. Contents: Boy's knee-breeches, vest, and jacket; "Our Extravagant Girls!"; Activity of Children; Manners Upon the Road; New York Fashions - hats and hints for gentlemen, varieties for ladies; Personal; crochet and other suspenders; The Lovels of Arden - continued; Point lace and white needle-work edging for lingerie; netted guipure insertion for covers, pillow-slips; Medallion for porte-monnaaies, cigar-cases, etc., colored embroidery; design for sofa-pillow, etc., application, point russe, and satin stitch embroidery; tapestry designs for covers of pincushions, emery cushions, etc.; embroidery design for cigar-cases, card-cases, etc.; Swiss muslin chemise russe; tatted rosettes; Shirts versus Wives; Vassar College; Living in Germany - high schools and colleges; Sea Weeds; Useful Recipes; Nice full-page illustration "The Fourth of July"; A Lover's Device; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: How Shall We Furnish the Parlor?; Barbaric Behavior; Manners upon the Road - of little poems; New York Fashions - black costumes, white suits, simple buff linens, elaborate batiste suits, dolly varden suits, summer silks, sicilienne mantles, French polonaises, mantles; Personal; Irish guipure crochet collar; Embroidered tablets; case for sewing silk, thread, etc.; case for visiting cards, postage stamps, etc.; The Young Professor; Paris Fashions; Sayings and Doings; Collar and sleeve of linen with raised squares; embroidered card press; ribbon and cane knitting-work case; gray linen scrap-bag; English Gossip; London's Heart - continued; Evening Toilette; Tatted Rosette for Lingerie; crochet rosette for tidies, etc.; borders for table-covers, curtains, etc.; Keeping Flowers Fresh; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Silk and cashmere walking suit; poplin walking suit; Poonah-Work; Domestic Life; MAnners upon the Road; New York Fashions - ladies' cloth, cloakings, twilled woolen goods, lingerie, laces, hints about costumes; Personal; Lace and Point Lace Collar; Waste-paper basket with embroidered lambrequins; waste-paper basket run with colored braid; point lace tidy; crochet insertion for lingerie; point lace and crochet insertion for lingerie; tatted edging; tatted rosettes for lingerie; tatted square for lingerie; Hannah - continued; sayings and doings; netted guipure insertion and edging; point lace and crochet edging; lady's point lace and crochet gimp chemise yoke; knitted and crochet insertion; needle-work edging for lingerie; crochet edging worked crosswise; crochet insertion worked crosswise; point lace and crochet insertion; cashmere over-skirt; ecru crepe de Chine over-skirt; Algerienne over-skirt; How Nationalities Grow Old; My Prophet; The Lunch-Table-Coffee; Useful Recipes; carriage leather wall tidy to hang over wash-stand; embroidery designs for a foundation for toilette cushions, etc.; Blood-sucking Bats; humor. Average wear. Clipping from page 603. Book
16 pages. Features: Summer walking suit; shade trees for streets; Complaining of monotony; Summer conveniences - refrigerants; white pique dress for boy from 2 to 3 years old; child's crochet collar; bead mosaic handle of riding-whip; white needle-work rosettes for infants' caps; knitted lace for lingerie; tapestry border for chairs, rugs, etc.; summer hats and bonnets; coiffur for elderly lady; gentleman's hat shade; Mademoiselle Fifine's Supper; Female Common-school teachers; Paris Fashions; Full-page illustration "Lady Washington's Rebuke"; Full-page illustration "Idling away a Summer Day", by Gaston Fay; The Cryptogram - continued; What the Whole Family Said; Large illustration "Girl and Thrush"; humor; and more. Average wear. Large clipping from bottom of page 531. Book
16 pages. Contents: Boy's blouse, shirt-waist, and knickerbockers; Serviceable Clubbing; New York Fashions - chintz silks and percales, riding habits, applique embroidery , cashmere wraps, varieties; Personal; crochet cover for boiled eggs, potatoes, etc.; Sillk Brush; Crochet cover for flat-iron; crochet and serpentine braid insertion for lingerie; tatted rosette; ironing mat, corner of border for cushions, covers; cravats and bows for the hair; Hannah; Dreams; Useful recipes; Lovely illustration "The Rustic Mirror" shows girl looking at her reflection in water; Holiday Faces - with illustrations; Legends of the Cross; Clara Barton in Strasburg and Paris; Whorth While for Women to Know; The School-Master; A Stroll on Shingleton Beach - and what came of it; Paris Fashions; Sea-Side Fantasies - illustration; humor. Average wear. Book
20 pages. Contents: Cover Illustration "They Carefully Put Their Teeth Into the Lye..."; Thanksgiving; Women and Men - Opressive Leisure; Family Living on $500 a Year - part XLVI - Thanksgiving Dinners; New York Fashions - furs, small girls' and misses' costumes; Personal; Sketches in Constantinople - Bridge of Galata, Palace of Dolma Bagtche Imperial Palace, Mosque of St. Sophia, Turkish Ladies Shopping, etc.; Lyd's Three Thanksgivings - with illustrations; Wonderful vull-page illustrated ad for the opening of the new Grand Street Building of Edward Ridley & Sons of New York - "Ridley's, 309 to 321 Grand St."; Lovely centerfold illustration "Portrait of a Lady" - from the picture byCarolus Duran exhibited in the Royal Academy, 1886; A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready - first part; Misses' and girls' dresses and cloaks - nice full-page illustration; Corsages for dinner and reception toilettes; laundry basket; afternoon toilettes; some infant schools; a beautiful air-plant; humor. Above-average wear and soiling Book
16 pages. Contents: Evening Dress - front and back illustrations; Luck; Manners Upon the Road; New York Fashions - evening dresses, wedding dresses, bride-maids' dresses, bridegroom's suit, wedding cards, dresses of the trousseau; Personal; knitted and crochet bib; crochet bib; crochet waist for child from 1 to 2 years old; crochet tobacco pouch; cover for hot-water bottle; rice-powder box; The Lovels of Arden - continued; Sayings and Doings; Carriage-leather mat; knotted and crochet fringe for curtains, etc.; Edging for Lingerie; Design for Lamp Mat - point russe and button-hole stitch embroidery; crepe de chine cravat with jabot; Modern Costume; Kitty's Two Thanksgivings; Laura Silver Bell; low-necked evening dress, with adjustable court train and round skirt; Crochet Purse; embroidered chair cushion; footstool with hot-water bottle and cover; Diaries; humor. Average wear. Please note - cartoon clipped from central portion of back page. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and Children's House and Street Suits; Novel Junk-Shops and their Keepers; St. Valentine's Day; Household Furniture - Wall-Paper; New York Fashions - spring silks; black silks, armure silks, brocaded silks, oriental silks, bourette, evening silks, checks and stripes, black and colored grenadines, spring millinery; Personal; Fringe of polonaises; Mignardise and crochet border for dresses, wrappings, etc.; netted and knotted fringe for dresses, wrappings, etc.; Mignardise and crochet edgings for lingerie; Border for lingerie - wroght guipure; Monograms for handkerchiefs; Border for Opera Cloaks, children's dresses, etc.; Dress Trimming; Jewel-Cup; Furniture Brush; Initials for Handkerchiefs, white embroidery; Figures for Tidies - wroght guipure and lace stitch; Juliet - continued; Savyings and Doings; coiffures, scalpettes, braids, etc. - nice illustrations; Gros Grain evening dress; Silk and Satin Evening Dress; Green Pastures and Piccadilly - continued; Why Kitty Did Not Kill Herself; Madame Schliemann - wife of the celebrated antiquarian discoverer - article and nice illustration; Fan with Lace Cover; Crepe lisse and lace fichu-collar; Cravats of serge ribbon with embroidery; netted guipure square; Russian braid and crochet square for tidies; Eradication of Garden Vermin; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Girls' and Boys' skating suits; Novelties in wax-work; Unhappy Wives; Manners Upon the road - of new-year's calls; New York Fashions - evening dresses, faille and silk, embroidered tulle over-skirts, white tulle dresses; Personal; Crochet purse; embroidered work-box; embroidered work-box; embroidered canvas work-bag; collar in Genoese embroidery; Knitted veil; The Lovels of Arden - continued; Sayings and Doings; Beautiful huge centerfold illustration of "Ball and Evening Dresses"; Euphemia's music-box; The Lady Correspondents at Washington; Playing-Cards; ball and eveniing head-dress of blue flowers and ribbon; bow of embroidered tulle and velvet ribbon; embroidered cloth rug; embroidered glove-box; laundry book; port-folio with application embroidery; tapestry border for key-bags, napkin-rings, etc.; Novel Names; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' Summer Dresses - nice cover illustration; Wedding gifts; Manners upon the road - of family crafts; New York Fashions - loose polonaises, fichu-blouses, new white blouses, the fan waist, varieties; Personal; Point lace and netted guipure edgings, insertions, etc. for lingerie, tidies, etc.; Cravat bows and bows for the hair; Black velvet necklace with steel spangles; English gossip; The county poor-house facts; Nice illustration for the month of July - but there is a small clipping from upper corner; Paris Fashions; Sayings and doings; To the Bitter End - continued; humor. Average wear. Note: page 485 missing. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and Children's Sea-side Suits; Indelible Drawings; Home Life; Manners Upon the Road; New York Fashions - postilion-basque polonaise with apron front, summer shopping, inexpensive summer dresses, camisoles, belted dresses, jewelry, under-sleeves, ties, etc.; Personal; borders, insertions and edgings for lingerie and chldren's garments; medallions for cigar-cases; wire and bead basket for worsted; case with Boston tablet; The Bitter End - continued; Sayings and Doings; Illustration "Linked Names"; small clipping from page 449; Paris Gossip; My Parasol; English Gossip; George Eliot's Sayings; Illustration "The Death of Cleopatra"; Illustration "David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy"; humor. Average wear. Small clipping from page 445. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' spring house and street dresses; The Love of Dress; Manners Upon the Road - of snow; New York Fashions - the spring suit, misses and children's clothing, boys' clothes; Personal; Necessaire for sewing utensils; tatted and crochet collars; cover for sofa-pillow - gold or silver embroidery; corners for album-covers, cushions, etc.; border for trimming lingerie; work-basket with stand; tassels for work-baskets, curtains, etc.; mignardise and crochet cover for toilette cushions; point lace and crochet cover for toilette cushions, etc.; Gold Beads; Some toilettes at Washington; Sayings and Doings; Ladies' and children's walking and house dresses; Color in Rooms; Illustrations - "Comedy of Married Life" - shows bull confronting man and woman; How it was Done; English Gossip; Sabres and Skirts; Peonies; Useful Recipes; To the Bitter End - continued; Who Will My Husband Be? - text and large illustration of women pouring water through the end of a key; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Practical notes on cements; Black gros grain paletot - front and back illustrations; Mode of roasting coffee; Having One's Own Way; Manners Upon the Road - of temper and temperament; New York Fashions - mourning dress goods, bonnets and veils, widows' mourning, dresses, trimmings, second mourning, varieties; Personal; Basket of covered card-board rings; needle-work and lace collar imitation of bruges lace; crochet and lace insertion and edging for lingerie; carriage leather flower-pot screen; black lace and bead sprays for bonnets, head-dresses, etc.; spring and summer hats and bonnets of trulle crape; To the Bitter End - continued; Sayings and Doings; Selection of Annuals; Making both ends meet; The Tea-Pot, by Hans Christian Andersen; Mr. Sutherland's Sickness, by Harriet Prescott Spofford; Paris Gossip; Dolly Varden Carriage costume; The Origin of Lace; Devices for looping trained skirts; Sympathies and antipathies; Tatted Edging for Lingerie; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' spring and summer dresses; The other side; Manners upon the road - of meeting ourselves; New York Fashions - spring and summer suits, wedding dresses; Personal; cravats in Venetian and point lace embroidery on lace; tatted cravat; Curtain Band - braid-work, knit-work, crochet, and tatting; Tapestry foundations for lamp-mats, sofa-pillows, etc.; Medallions for cigar-cases, card-cases, etc.; table-cover with satin stitch and gobelin embroidery; Jeannette Laboulaye; English Gossip; Sayings and Doings; Lady's Dinner Dress; Weddings and Presents; spring and summer hats and bonnets; borders in white and guipure embroidery; design for round sewing-weights, lamp-mats; tatted edging and insertion for trimming lingerie; covers for toilette cushions, etc.; French Training of Children; London's Heart - continued; Paris Fashions; The great Bronze Budha of Japan; French Society;Sunday Morning - nice illustration; A Mother's Meeting - nice illustration; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and children's evening dresses - cover illustration; At the Opera; Manners Upon the Road - of beggars; New York Fashions - summer bonnets and hats, more hints about dresses, furniture; Personal; Gentlemen's suspenders; boys embroidered gray linen suspenders; embroidery borders for suspenders; tatted and crochet rosette for lingerie; corners of borders for covers of toilette cusshions, tidies, etc.; tapestry design for sofa-pillow, etc.; Brown silk evening dress; Gray silk evening dress; box for sewing-machine utensils; Paris Fashions; Women's Work; London's Heart - continued; Destruction of Antioch - with illustrations; English Gossip; Sayings and Doings; Little Polly Pilkerton; Nice illustration of Joseph Mazzini in his study at Brompton, England; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Spring Wrappings for Girls and Boys from 6 to 14 Years Old; The Old Clothes Men; Household Furniture - woman's share; New York Fashions - polonaises and mantles, mantles, gingham suits with Smyrna lace, pink and blue batistes, mor hints about dresses; Personal; embroidered foot-stool; Work-bag; Embroidered Work-bag; Monogram for lingerie, etc. - white embroidery; Section of cover for parasol - wrought guipure and lace stitch; How to Preserve the Hearing; Cravat End - silk braid, gold cord, and lace stitch; Ladies' House Dresses - illustraiton; As Long as She Lived! - continued; A.T. Stewart; Sayings and Doings; Spring bonnets; agrafes and buckle for bonnets; The Literary Lamtreatment of Music; Parasols; Head-dress of cream-colored serge ribbon; head-dress of pink serge ribbon; Ladies' and Children's Spring Wrappings and Dresses - illustration; Dill's Love Affair; Centennial Customs; Trellis-Work, etc.; A Right of Way; Great full-page illustration "" Right of Way" shows conflicting man-powered cabs and their fares; Lapland costuem; A Curious Sicilian Legend; Gold-Fish; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Lady's Evening Dress; Manners Upon the Road - of stoves and fires; New York Fashions - double-breasted jacket and worth over-skirt, crinoline, silk suits and over-skirts, elegant black costumes, reception dresses, the Josephine coiffure, evening bonnets, opera cloaks, colored jabots, lingerie, fancy jewelry; Personal; crochet guipure edging for lingerie; Russia-leather chatelaine belts; tortoise-shell comb and hair-pins; knitted shawl worn as a hood; Been-Porridge Hot; Sayings and Doings; Ladies' Fall and Winter Suits; Paris Gossip; To the Bitter End - continued; English Gossip; Full-page illustration for the month of October; The Three Emperors at Berlin; humor. Average wear. Small clipping from page 705. Book
16 pages. Contents: Cover illustration of an Apron-Polonaise Walking Suit.; The Jewel of Constistency, by Gail Hamilton; New York Fashions - The Apron Polonaise, Imported Suits, Spring Paletots; Personal; Tapestry Border for Chairs, Sofas, etc.; Neglige basket trimmed with ruches; Brioche with cloth and knitted cover; Netted Guipure Edging; Trimming for blouses, lingerie, etc.; Hannah (continued); Old Ladies' Flowers; Bizarre full-page illustration shows new bride and groom emerging from church... but bride is an elephant!; Illustration on page 201 has been removed; Familiy breakfasts and dinners - recipes; Sayings and Doings; Common Ugliness; Tricks of Countenance; April Showers - with illustration; Humor on back cover; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Magazine