From an advertisement from the Wallpaper Manufacturers Association of the United States in House Beautiful magazine, August 1924.
Dining Room with Wallpaper
Category Archives: Domestic Scenes
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Old Man Listening to the Radio in the Middle of the Night
| Description | English: Old man listening to a Paragon radio at 2 a.m, from a 1925 advertisement. The original advertisement included the words, “Paragon offers perpetual temptation to old as well as young.” |
| Date | 15 January 1925 |
| Source | Talking Machine World |
| Author | Phil Cook |
Hotel Maid Making a Bed
Hotel maid making a bed, from an 1897 advertisement for Strawbridge & Clothier hotel supplies.
Alte Frau am Fenster (Old Woman at the Window), by Max Liebermann
| Description | English: “Old Woman at the Window,” by Max Liebermann |
| Date | 1916 |
| Source | Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration (https://archive.org/details/deutschekunstund39kochuoft/page/12/mode/2up?view=theater) |
| Author | Max Liebermann |
She might not be a clever woman but she was an intuitive one, by R. Van Buren
| Description | English: Illustration by Raeburn Van Buren for the story “The Last Straw” by Adela Rogers St. Johns |
| Date | 1922 |
| Source | Photoplay (https://archive.org/details/phojun22chic/page/n539/mode/2up?view=theater) |
| Author | Raeburn Van Buren |
The Dropped Fork
| Description | English: Illustration from an advertisement for an etiquette book. “Many embarrassing blunders can be made in a public restaurant. Should the young lady in the picture pick up the fork or leave it for the waiter to attend to? Or should one of the men pick it up?” |
| Date | 1922 |
| Source | Advertisement in Photoplay (https://archive.org/details/phojun22chic/page/n393/mode/2up?view=theater) |
| Author | Anonymous |
Brushing Her Teeth
| Description | English: A woman brushing her teeth, from an advertisement for Colgate’s Ribbon Dental Cream |
| Date | 1924 |
| Source | Advertisement for Colgate’s Ribbon Dental Cream in Motion Picture Magazine (https://archive.org/details/motionpicturemag28brew/page/n205/mode/2up?view=theater) |
| Author | Anonymous |
The Doubtful Fortune
| Description | English: “The Doubtful Fortune,” an engraving from Godey’s Lady’s Book |
| Date | 1868 |
| Source | Godey’s Lady’s Book (https://archive.org/details/godeys-1868-v-76/page/129/mode/2up?view=theater) |
| Author | Anonymous |
Dinner, by August Neven du Mont
| Description | English: Dinner. Study by August Neven du Mont, reproduced in a 1911 German magazine. |
| Date | 1911 |
| Source | Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte (https://archive.org/details/velhagenklasings2621unse/page/8/mode/2up) |
| Author | August Neven du Mont |