Comfort, The Key to a Million and a Quarter Homes New York, Augusta, Maine, Boston, a March Maid
Date1896
Artist
unknown
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Illustration CitationAdvertising poster for Comfort, March 1896
MediumCommercial lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 20 × 14 in. (50.8 × 35.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1977
Object number1977-42
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThis poster advertises Comfort, a magazine for women published in Augusta, Maine, when that city was called the "mail order magazine capital," Comfort was aimed primarily at rural women who had little access to stores and welcomed the opportunity to order goods by mail. It ceased publication in 1942.William McGregor Paxton
1895