Famous artists, when they weren't painting the covers for the magazines, paid their bills by doing art for advertisers. Some of the things they did can stand up with the best of their covers, and much of it is fascinating today for what it tells us about life and popular culture of the past. This is a small door that opens up into a very large cathedral of art.
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Advertisements for meat, corn flakes, candy bars, flour, beer, wine, spirits, broccoli, peanut butter: Here they are.
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A noxious weed, and an important part of the American economy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tobacco advertising paid for many an editorial lunch and kept lots of artists employed.
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Automobile ads kept magazines going through good times and hard. High-ticket items, they could afford to pay for color reproduction when that was too expensive for most other products. Everybody knows something about cars! Some of these ads were created by the best artists in the business. And some of them are just fun to look at as nostalgia; or, if you prefer, ancient history. Trucks here, too. Also wagons and carriages. If you like these, check out this great website of scans of...
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Here we find pulps devoted to the adventurous thrills that all their readers hoped might be theirs some day, or else just lived vicariously in the thrilling dreams of others. Danger! Warfare! Frontiers! Mysterious messages and treacherous missions against hopeless odds!
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The (undated) first issue of Hugh Hefner's revolutionary magazine, the one with the famous center spread of Marilyn Monroe. Artist: Source: eBay seller powerangers Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Men's Magazines, Playboy, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage...
Mainstays of the advertising pages were personal items such as toiletries, beauty aids, perfumes, bath and facial soaps, and the like. Human interactions are important: Flowers, cards, notes.
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Clothing and fashions pay the bills at our department stores and shopping malls. We pay the bills for our clothing and fashions. And advertisements in magazines told us what we were going to buy (or make), and why.
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Here are the ads for the common everyday household things you need to have around to keep the place clean and running. And also the objects of beauty that make life worthwhile. A little bit of decoration, a little bit of dirt removal.
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Begun in 1910 as a way for publisher Ridgway to tap into a new market, it specialized in stories of danger and thrills. At this time other pulp and popular magazines contained a wide variety of stories ranging from danger to romance (even when these are not the same thing). Its creation was a logical response to the success of pulps like ARGOSY, which by 1910 were selling hundreds of thousands of copies of each issue; but the focus on adventure was something new. It survived, in one form or...
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Artist: Source: eBay seller ThomasC at American Art Archives, which also has its own wonderful website about American illustrators
Topics: Humor Magazines, Life, the humor magazine, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art,...
Ad for Cuban Splits, shown in dramatic but metaphoric fashion. From an issue of HARPER'S MONTHLY published around 1900. Artist: Source: Mariangela Buch Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Tobacco Products, Cigars, magazine covers, vintage magazines,...
Ad for Resagos Cigars from Havana, as published in the December 5, 1903 issue of the SATURDAY EVENING POST. The ad is scrupulous in telling you that the cigars are pure Havana products, of the second quality. Or Factory Seconds, perhaps. Judge Smith of South Dakota finds them "excellent and very cheap".
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Tobacco Products, Cigars, magazine covers, vintage magazines,...
Audio, and early video, and records, and entertainment. The beginnings of an industry that is still with us, slowly engulfing (or being engulfed by) the computer industry.
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Art prints have been around as long as printing has been around. Film, movies, cinema, as an art that moves, only a short time, but fully the memory of living humans. Books and magazines have been the subject of ads as long as the memory of humankind. Or so it would seem. Not only did magazines run ads for themselves and for other titles from the same publisher, they often ran ads for totally unconnected magazine titles. Sometimes they sold the space to the other publisher, and sometimes they...
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Magazines aimed at men. A lot of cheesecake and spicy stuff, with a lot of adventure and sweat. You know what you're looking for here.
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Health and medicine ads have supported numberless magazines over the years. Some publishers refused patent medicine ads, and some got rich on them. Ditto for equipment, which can range from something as straightforward as crutches to something as questionable and as "Violet Rays". Techniques can be as simple as yoga and as complex as sequestration in a private hospital.
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Build a transportation system, and people and things will travel. Here are ads for all things related.
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Portrait of Hedy Lamarr. Content: "Should Women Feel Sorry for Alice Faye?" and "The Real Reason Why the Lane Sisters Broke Up." Source: Dave Wills, who sells on eBay as dwills1000, and has an eBay storefront "Dave's Odds and Ends" Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Movies, TV, and Radio Magazines, Silver Screen, Hollywood, scandal, divorce
Advertisements for outdoor and indoor sports and equipment for them. Guns, rods, racquets, balls; the list is endless.
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Mary Collins Source: eBay seller unclecrickey, via Croaker
Topics: Men's Magazines, See, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage advertisements
This archive is about art in vintage magazines, but there weren't actually that many vintage magazines about art and design. Even if you throw Antiques into the pot, the number is small. Don't worry; it may be small, but what's here will be of great interest.
Topics: magazine art, design, art
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Artist: Franklin Booth Source: eBay seller ThomasC at American Art Archives, which also has its own wonderful website about American illustrators
Topics: Humor Magazines, Life, the humor magazine, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art,...
Bicycles became vastly popular in the late 19th century and paved the way (sorry!) for automobiles by creating a population that wanted good, smooth, hard-surfaced roads and plenty of them. Motorcycles were an adaption that combined the best and worst of the two. And then there were motorbikes, and scooters, and any motorized conveyance that could spring full-blown from the head of the American backyard inventor.
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20,679 physicians say "Luckies are less irritating," with number certified by Lybrand. A man in a white jersey says it, so it must be true. Ad for Lucky Strike, published in the August, 1930 issue of GOLDEN BOOK. Artist: Source: Cynde Georgen, Trail End Historic Site, Sheridan Wyoming Restoration by: Cynde Georgen
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Tobacco Products, Cigarette Ads, endorsement, lie, statistic
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There were at least three issues of this pulp, but even the experts don't have much to say about it, except "rare to very rare".
Topics: Rare Pulps, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage advertisements
Ad for Kellogg's Toasted Corn Flakes, from the May, 1915 issue of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. This looks like one of J. C. Leyendecker's paintings for Kellogg's.
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Food and Beverages, Breakfast!, child, spooning
Pens and pencils and paper and office supplies. Now we have major national chains providing these materials to the end consumer. Back in the day we needed to see ads like these to decide what to buy. Hey, we still do.
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Toys. Games. Let's play.
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Goodbye Summer, as a rich young woman, carrying a bundle of flowers and being led by a small dog, flounces along behind a black railroad porter weighed down with her four luggage bags and a golf bag. Artist: J. C. Leyendecker Source: eBay seller powerangers Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Weekly Magazines, Saturday Evening Post, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art,...
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39 home workshop projects; complete plans for 15 foot canoe. Source: Grenville Abernethy, who sells on eBay as banjoflier, and has an eBay store as "model aviation magazines".
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Mechanix Illustrated, magazine covers, vintage magazines,...
ROMANCE specialized in romance and love stories set among exotic and distant lands, in historical settings, and in the face of danger and adventure. This was the second pulp magazine published by Ridgway, a company which had been successful first with EVERYBODY'S MAGAZINE, a mass-market title printed on quality paper and aimed at both men and women, and secondly with ADVENTURE, a purely pulp magazine aimed primarily at men. It debuted in November 1919, and at first published mostly fiction in...
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Artist: Herbert Paus Source: Collector and illustration website proprietor Doug Allewell Image Processing by: Collector and illustration website proprietor Doug Allewell
Topics: Humor Magazines, Life, the humor magazine, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art,...
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Toy invention! Big money for home workshop fans. Man with wooden animals, including a Donald Duck (wonder if he licensed it?) Source: Grenville Abernethy, who sells on eBay as banjoflier, and has an eBay store as "model aviation magazines".
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Naked woman wrapped in a bouquet with roses; a "rose among the flowers." Artist: Source: Curious Book Shop; photograph by magscanner Restoration by: Chad Wicker
Topics: Humor Magazines, Capt. Billy's Whiz Bang, metaphor, nude, nudity, seduction
Published in the May, 1912 issue of MODERN PRISCILLA.
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Food and Beverages, Soft Drinks, Non-Alcoholic, magazine covers,...
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Dolores Rosedale Source: eBay Sellers via Croaker
Topics: Men's Magazines, See, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage advertisements
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Source: Mariangela Buch Image Restoration: magscanner Our Sponsors:
Topics: Women's Magazines, Vogue, garden, elegant, flowers, walk, path
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Madman enjoys putting naked women in cages, with slave collars on their necks, but apparently forgets to feed them. Artist: Source: Brian Bennett Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Horror, Terror, and Shudder Pulps, Terror Tales, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising...
Beautiful ad for Holeproof Silk Hosiery for women, with a model sitting on a wall in front of a thousand pink roses. Published in the October, 1924 issue of COSMOPOLITAN. Artist: Coles Phillips Source: Charles Perrien Restoration by: Charles Perrien
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Two nearly naked Greco-Roman wrestlers. PHYSICAL CULTURE "Points the Way to Virile Manhood and Superb Womanhood," and is "The Guide to Real Efficiency." Artist: Source: Collector and author John Locke Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Health and Fitness Magazines, Physical Culture, nude, competition, Olympics, gay
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Woman in harlequin-like pattern, holding black parasol and with purple and black ostrich feather in her hat, stands displaying the fashions. Title: "Golden Jubilee Number: Fifty years ago Ebenezer Butterick invented the First Paper Pattern and founded the Great Fashion House which bears his name."
Topics: Women's Magazines, Delineator, Carl Kleinschmidt
Five beautiful women watch a cherub playing with a basket of roses and a bar of White Rose. No. 4711, perfection of purity and perfume, from a German company, Ferd. Mülhens of Cologne [Köln]. Published in a 1909 issue of the BURR MCINTOSH MONTHLY. Artist: Source: eBay seller daysoffuturepast, who also sells printed materials from her personal website. Restoration by: jess at daysoffuturepast
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Personal and Human Aspects, Facial and Toilet Soap, fragrance, happy,...
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The telephone, technology's gift to lovers on Valentine's Day. Two hearts, and a cupid listening in on the party line. Artist: Source: Photographer PopKulture Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Trade Magazines and Trade Journals, Variety Collection of Trade Magazines, magazine covers, vintage...
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Artist: Source: eBay seller ThomasC at American Art Archives, which also has its own wonderful website about American illustrators
Topics: Humor Magazines, Life, the humor magazine, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art,...
Celebrated screen star John Gilbert, pictured here in a celebrity endorsement. No text except for slogans: "Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet," "It's Toasted," and statements "Toasting takes out that bite and throat irritation," and "No throat irritation -- no cough." Published in the September, 1929 issue of PHOTOPLAY. Artist: Source: Charles Perrien Restoration by: Charles Perrien
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Tobacco Products, Cigarette Ads, cancer, coughing, retching,...
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Young woman swinging a badminton racquet, out in a meadow full of daisies; daisies shown on either side of her in a triptych
Topics: Women's Magazines, Designer, sports, competition, field, flowers, exercise, enjoyment, outdoors,...
Without cameras the magazineart.org would be a lot smaller and less interesting. Hail photography!
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Ad for Jell-O, with the same girl as in -1918A smiling enigmatically as she contemplates six elaborate Jello desserts you can make. Published in the May, 1919 issue of the LADIES' HOME JOURNAL.
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Food and Beverages, Dessert, magazine covers, vintage magazines,...
Artist: Source: Vintage Magazine Seller ephemeraforever.com Restoration: magscanner
Topics: Adventure Pulps, Adventure magazine, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage...
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Artist: Paul Stahr Source: eBay seller ThomasC at American Art Archives, which also has its own wonderful website about American illustrators
Topics: Humor Magazines, Life, the humor magazine, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art,...
This is the car which has rendered other electric types obsolete. Elegance, as seen when two women step out of the box on wheels, fresh as when they began. Published in an early 1900's issue of LIFE, the Humor Magazine. Artist: Source: Mariangela Buch Restoration by: Mariangela Buch
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Automobiles, Trucks, and Wagons, Electric Automobiles,...
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Nudist people read newspapers, drink coffee and cocktails, and talk amongst themselves. Content: "Baltic Night," by Paul Morand, and items by Sinclair Lewis, Turgeniev, William Seabrook, Richard W. Child, Smollett, and Stephen Leacock. Artist: Source: Cynde Georgen, Trail End Historic Site, Sheridan Wyoming Restoration by: Cynde Georgen
Topics: General Fiction Pulps, Golden Book, drama, struggle, nudity, compassion, Russian
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Artist: Coles Phillips Source: eBay sellers Image Processing by: magscanner
Topics: Humor Magazines, Life, the humor magazine, LIFE the humor magazine, jokes, cartoons, funny stories,...
Every picture tells a story, and this 1946 ad from FIELD AND STREAM tells one worthy of a SATURDAY EVENING POST cover. So, anyway, just has hooked whom with a fishing line? Looks like a tricky way for the fisherman to meet the fisherbabe. No indication who the artist was, but we're pretty sure we've seen his work elsewhere. Artist: Source: Renita Ivey Restoration by: Renita Ivey
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Food and Beverages, Beer, magazine covers, vintage magazines,...
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Woman in elaborate summer dress, with white parasol, standing in the garden and talking to her dog; in the background is a columned mansion, on a lake
Topics: Women's Magazines, Designer, Spring, walk, parade, wealth, fashion, style, clothing
Ad for Jell-O, from the December, 1912 issue of McCALL'S MAGAZINE. The woman's face has been painted (or at least heavily hand-worked) onto a photo of a woman with a shopping basket full of food for Christmas dinner. The food items have all been colorized, as have her face, and gloves. The drawing of the Jello box has surely been pasted into her hand. Note the typical turkey of a century ago; it is definitely not one of the bloated beasts we buy today.
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Food and Beverages, Dessert, magazine covers, vintage magazines,...
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Artist: Philip Boileau Subject, theme, or story: Woman in black hat with half-veil over eyes Source: eBay seller maq67harpo Image Processing by: magscanner
Topics: Women's Magazines, Ladies' World, Philip Boileau, hat, scarf, veil, fashions, homemaking,...
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Photo of Lilly St. Cyr in even less, strategically hidden behind content banner. Nudists hold a convention. Glamour girl comedienne. Wild gorilla on a spree. Source: eBay seller unclecrickey Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Men's Magazines, Laff, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage advertisements
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Artist: Source: eBay seller ThomasC at American Art Archives, which also has its own wonderful website about American illustrators
Topics: Humor Magazines, Life, the humor magazine, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art,...
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Witches, rats, pumpkin jesters, and black cats dance, while owls stare disapprovingly, as Halloween comes to town in this wallpaper or quilt design. Artist: Source: Art collector finsbry on Flickr Restoration by: finsbry
Topics: Youth, Children, and Kids' Magazines, John Martin's Book, Hallowe'en, terror, midnight, festive
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Ruth St. Denis models a colorful costume of India. Artist: John Edwin Jackson Source: eBay seller daysoffuturepast, who also sells printed materials from her personal website. Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Women's Magazines, Needlecraft, fashion, swirl, dance, acting
Ad for Arrow Collars and Shirts, with a man standing to display the Trump model shirt and an appropriate collar. Published in the June 7, 1928 issue of the HARVARD LAMPOON. Artist: J. C. Leyendecker Source: Cynde Georgen, Trail End Historic Site, Sheridan Wyoming Restoration by: Cynde Georgen
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Clothing and Fashions, Men's Clothing and Accessories, model,...
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Source: Frank M. Robinson Image Processing by: magscanner Copyright: All Black Mask covers, the Black Mask logo, and the mask device are copyright © Keith Alan Deutsch. Used with permission.
Topics: Crime, Mystery, and Detective Pulps, Black Mask Magazine, Black Mask, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Ku Klux,...
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Artist: K. Pyle Source: Jeff Kaylin Image Processing by: magscanner
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Topics: Women's Magazines, Woman's Home Companion, Woman's Home Companion, K. Pyle, New Year, chick, egg,...
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Woman watches herself in the mirror as she tries on an earring, with pearls selected and put aside. She's going out tonight. "Fall Fashion Number." Artist: A. du Vannes Source: Charles Perrien Restoration by: Charles Perrien
Topics: Women's Magazines, Ladies' World, dressing, evening, formal, party, night out
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Black Cat, in clown suit, harvesting strawflowers for harvest celebrations Artist: Nellie Littlehale Umbstaetter Source: Curious Book Shop display at the Windy City Pulp and Paper show, 2010 Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Fiction Magazines, Black Cat, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage...
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Portrait of Miriam Hopkins. Content: "Love and the Leading Ladies," by Ed Sullivan. Artist: Marland Stone Source: Dave Wills, who sells on eBay as dwills1000, and has an eBay storefront "Dave's Odds and Ends" Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Movies, TV, and Radio Magazines, Silver Screen, movies, cinema, Hollywood
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Back to the stylization of late art noveau, with a woman holding a batch of firecrackers, and standing in front of a string of Chinese lanterns. Presumably the firecrackers represent Fourth of July fireworks.
Topics: Women's Magazines, Delineator, fashion, style, clothing, sewing, patterns, home, jewelry,...
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Very Deco forerunner out of Nouveau, as La Gatta shows a woman tennis player in "Rare Form" by means of shadows and fade-aways, as well simple geometric forms. Artist: John La Gatta Source: Tom Harris, collector/seller, on eBay as tabasco_life Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Humor Magazines, Life, the humor magazine, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art,...
Makes kids husky. Or at least strong enough to dig your sidewalk out from a two-foot snowfall. The other kids have earmuffs or earflaps on their hats. Published in the February, 1920 issue of the PEOPLE'S HOME JOURNAL. Artist: Source: Charles Perrien Restoration by: Charles Perrien
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Food and Beverages, Breakfast!, winter, shovel, snow-shovel,...
Delightful Christmas recipes, with what looks like a Paradise Pudding shown with fancy plates, candles, and other holiday decorations. Published in the December, 1927 issue of WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION. Source: Magazine collector Steve Davis Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Food and Beverages, Dessert, party, recipes, desserts
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Choice Geraniums, offered for sale for your garden, in the pages of THE MAYFLOWER. Great color litho work. Artist: Source: Mariangela Buch Restoration by: Mariangela Buch
Topics: House and Garden Magazines, Mayflower, bouquet, seeds, gardening, flowers, decoration, fragrance
Baby's first birthday! With A&P's product in the kid's formula. And a recipe for chocolate souffle, for the adults. Published in the March, 1948 issue of WOMAN'S DAY. Artist: Source: Anonymous contributor Restoration by: magscanner
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Sidewalk entrance to house through front gate, with lots of flowers planted in the front yard and red tile on the roof. Artist: Source: eBay seller daysoffuturepast, who also sells printed materials from her personal website. Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: House and Garden Magazines, Better Homes and Gardens, Spanish, mediterranean, architecture
