The Steven Lomazow Collection of American Periodicals

One of the largest periodical collection of all time. The Steven Lomazow Collection consists of almost 30 thousand issues dating back to the early 1700's.  A finer collection of periodical artwork you can't find any where else.

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Local ID: 2322

Estimated Value: $400

Title: Ladies’ Magazine
Category: Ladies
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Date: January 1828
Published in: New York, NY
The first of Sarah Josepha Hale’s editorial positions and the first ladies magazine to run more than five years. A platform for editor Hale’s advocacy of ‘female education’ which continued in “Godey’s” (459), after it absorbed both the magazine and the editor. The frontispiece engraving is of Hannah Adams. The prospectus is on the rear outer wrapper. Mott I: 349 – 350, 606, 799; Kribbs 388.