If you're interested in social/fashion history - these magazines are a great download!

Godey's Lady's Book; Petersons Book, Arthur's Home Magazine, etc. including various French and German Fashion Magazines. The fashion plates, illustrations, recipes, etc. are wonderful! I have a grand recipe for a delicious no-cook lemon pudding which I got from a 1871 Godey's Lady's Book.... great research information as well for the Victorian era.

Even better - they are all public domain and the period graphics are great - and free to use!

http://victorianneedle.blogspot.com/2014...adies.html

V-e-r-y cool, Betty!!! (As elegant, feminine etc. as these wardrobes look - once more I am glad and happy to live nowadays where can wear casual colorful cotton close to nothing on a hot day like this!)

thanks Betty.
I wasn't sure I would find it interesting, but it is.
That young lady has an interesting blog.

I looked at the blog and was blown away by it! Thanks for sharing Betty! I like that most of the magazines are scanned through the Internet Archive, where I find some assassination related material when I am extremely bored.

(08-06-2015 04:34 PM)Thomas Kearney Wrote:  I looked at the blog and was blown away by it! Thanks for sharing Betty! I like that most of the magazines are scanned through the Internet Archive, where I find some assassination related material when I am extremely bored.

...while I was pleased to notice the "Bazar" being provided by Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf - the #1 university in Germany to study fashion design and arts.

(08-06-2015 07:24 AM)BettyO Wrote:  If you're interested in social/fashion history - these magazines are a great download!

Godey's Lady's Book; Petersons Book, Arthur's Home Magazine, etc. including various French and German Fashion Magazines. The fashion plates, illustrations, recipes, etc. are wonderful! I have a grand recipe for a delicious no-cook lemon pudding which I got from a 1871 Godey's Lady's Book.... great research information as well for the Victorian era.

Even better - they are all public domain and the period graphics are great - and free to use!

http://victorianneedle.blogspot.com/2014...adies.html

This website is great! Thanks so much for posting, Betty. (I have an idea how I'll be spending my cold, dreary Sunday afternoons this fall and winter!)

Betty, spent some time on this site reading magazines and checking out other information on the blog http://victorianneedle.blogspot.com/2014...adies.html. One of the subjects that surprised me was found by opening the "Research" window and clicking on "Breastfeeding". There are amazing daguerreotypes of Victorian women nursing their babies. If you click on the link in the article it takes you to more photos and an article in UK's "Daily Mail".

What I found surprising is that these women would sit for a male photographer. Did Mary Lincoln breastfeed her boys? If she did I can't imagine her posing for a photo.

Thanks for the post Betty.

Mary did brestfead her boys, and if I remeber correctly also, for a while, a neighbor's baby whose mother was too sick.

(08-13-2015 04:55 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Mary did brestfead her boys, and if I remeber correctly also, for a while, a neighbor's baby whose mother was too sick.

On p. 158 of his Lincoln biography David Herbert Donald writes, "Shortly after Tad's birth, when young Mrs. Charles Dallman was sick and unable to nurse her newborn infant, Mary breast-fed that baby along with her own."

Today I received "Lincoln's Springfield Neighborhood" - Anita and Toia, you will sure love it!!!

The author writes that Abraham Lincoln served as courier to carry the baby to Mary. Mrs. Dallman later reported that "soon he would return in the same eloquent silence with a tender expression of profound sympathy upon his picturesque countenance as he deposited the little child in a cradle".
Furthermore, the book reads: "...the baby did not survive past early childhood. When the family returned from the funeral, the Lincolns again and were there for them with a generous supper brought by Mr. Lincoln on one of Mary's finest silver trays."

Thanks Eva. I just ordered it. My unread stack of Linoln books is growing! It gives me comfort to know I'll never run out. It seems each time I'm on the forum there's another to add to my library. When I retired my colleagues swore I'd be bored. HA!

(08-15-2015 05:39 PM)Anita Wrote:  Thanks Eva. I just ordered it. My unread stack of Linoln books is growing! It gives me comfort to know I'll never run out. It seems each time I'm on the forum there's another to add to my library.

Same here. For your reading estimation - this one has 170 pages, but a wealth of information. I just noticed two (of five) appendices - German families and German servants in the Lincoln neighborhood, each with a brief history.