The Ladies' Home Journal Christmas 1890, Curtis Publishing Company, 1890

The Christmas issue of The Ladies' Home Journal, Vol. VIII, No. 1, published by Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia in December 1890. This is the full original issue, with its color-printed cover, fiction, household and gardening columns, holiday party planning, editorial content, and the period advertisements that line every page.

One of the earliest surviving issues of what would become America's most widely read women's magazine, this 1890 Christmas number documents the domestic tastes, literary habits, and consumer culture of upper-middle-class Victorian American households in vivid, browsable detail, and the hand-colored cover illustration is a small and lovely piece of period printing.

The issue contains numerous engravings throughout, including portraits, domestic scenes, and floral ornaments in the engraved style of the Victorian press.

Unbound periodical format with original color-printed cover; paper throughout uniformly yellowed and toned consistent with age; some edge wear on outer pages; all pages fully legible and the cover image clear. Please review all photos carefully, and email me with any questions.