This is an advertisement for the magazine "The American Boy."
The Girl's Own Paper was aBritish magazine targeting young female readers and waswidely read in America and Canada during 1880 and 1920. Its content covered a wide variety of subjects surrounding a girl's life, such as dress, reading, and exercise, and taught its readers the Victorian ideal of…
Emma Butman, a native of Waterville, Minnesota, wrote this lengthy letter to her cousin from San Francisco when she visited the city with her mother. Then a 23-year-old single woman, Emma waschaperoned by her mother during her travel. Nevertheless,Emma was exhilarated in seeing the sunny, urban, and…
The cover of No. 87 of theTip Top Weekly.The series was marketed as "An Ideal Publication for the American Youth." This cover image shows Frank Merriwell, the hero of the series, pinched the necks of two men.