Peterson's magazine.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Contributor:

Vaux, George, 1908-1996., Former owner.

Vaux Bequest., Donor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Periodicals.

Women.

Costume design--Periodicals.

Costume design.

Genre:

Women's periodicals.

Binders' tickets (Binding). -- 1868

Physical Description:

v. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Monthly

Vol. 13, no. 1 (Jan. 1848)-v. 102, no. 5 (Nov. 1892).

Other Title:

Ladies' national magazine 1848-1849

Peterson's magazine of art, literature and fashion 1850

Peterson's ladies' national magazine

Continues:

Ladies' national magazine

Continued By:

New Peterson magazine

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : [Charles J. Peterson], 1848-1892.

Notes:

Founded in Jan. 1842, by Charles J. Peterson, this women's magazine included serial installments, short stories, poems, patterns, publisher's notes, and book reviews. Among its contributors were Mrs. Ann S. Stephens and Emily H. May.cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900.

Title from caption.

Cover title, 1854-1866: Peterson's ladies' national magazine.

Editors: Ann S. Stephens, 1848-1857; Charles J. Peterson, 1857.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Library has v.37-42, 45-46, 53-54, 57-58, 63-64 (1860-1862, 1864, 1868, 1870, 1873)

Athenaeum copy: Library copy has numerous illustrations containing designs and fashions of women's and children's clothes.

Athenaeum copy: 1868 (v.53-54) bears binder's ticket on upper pastedown: ""F.S. Crawford, Binder, Concord, N.H."

Athenaeum copies of v.39-40 are bequest of George Vaux, 1996.

Athenaeum copy: The Vaux bequest of 1996 consists of books from the library of the prominent Philadelphia Quaker family established in America by James Vaux (1748-1812), who emigrated in 1771. Most of the books are inscribed by George Vaux VII (1779-1836), George Vaux VIII (1832-1915), George Vaux IX (1863-1927), and the donor George Vaux (1908-1996).