Comfort, The Key to a Million and a Quarter Homes New York, Augusta, Maine, Boston, a March Maid

Comfort, The Key to a Million and a Quarter Homes New York, Augusta, Maine, Boston, a March Maid
Comfort, The Key to a Million and a Quarter Homes New York, Augusta, Maine, Boston, a March Maid

Comfort, The Key to a Million and a Quarter Homes New York, Augusta, Maine, Boston, a March Maid

Date1896
Artist (unknown)
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
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ClassificationsPRINT
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.