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American Cookery magazine
Gourmet magazine helped change the way Americans cooked and thought about food in the latter part of the 20th century.
In the first half of the century it was a magazine called American Cookery.
American Cookery was first published as The Boston Cooking School Magazine.
The magazine was founded in 1896 and changed its name to American Cookery [...]
The New Yorker Cartoons – 1920s
For Christmas I received The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker. It’s a 600+ page book (with two CDs) and features all of the magazine’s cartoons from 1925 to 2004.
Here’s a few as they appeared during the Roaring Twenties.
Fortune magazine
It’s that time of year when mutual funds dole out their capital gains for the year. So, let’s celebrate with a brief look back at the history of Fortune magazine!
The first issue of Fortune hit stands in February 1930, four months after the stock market crash of 1929.
A yearly subscription rate was $10. A single [...]
1945 Radio News magazine – Color Television
I’d like to share two brief passages in a 1945 issue of Radio News Magazine. This article was written by Robert W. Ehrlich and it’s about the concept of color television. Keep in mind this was written before black and white sets were in people’s homes!
“As world events move closer to the point where the [...]
