Every once in awhile I get a wild hair and have to go searching on google for books online...I've found a LOT of genealogy information there, along with other items that interest me... this morning, I found the "Ladies Home Magazine" from 1858! I've been facinated by it for the past hour or so...
I browsed it, keeping in mind that my g-g-g grandparents were married in 1857, and this would have been of interest to Martha Ward Swycaffer as she set up her housekeeping... I found it interesting that while there are "patterns" in the magazines, they are not what we look at as patterns today...there are no instructions! They show a photo, and women of the time used their own brains and imaginations to create....that intrigues me more than anything...
At any rate...thought I'd share with you! :) It's kind of fun to check out...
http://books.google.com/books?id=ezE...tterns&f=false
Just in case the link doesn't work, go to Google, click "more", click "books", click "full" and then search for "Ladies Home Magazine"