Godey's Lady's Book
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Godey's Lady's Book, alternatively known as Godey's Magazine and Lady's Book, was an American women's magazine that was published in Philadelphia from 1830 to 1896. It was the most widely circulated m
Cover from June 1867 issue
Queen Victoria style of Christmas tree 1848, a picture adapted for Godey's Lady's Book, December 1850
Sarah Josepha Hale
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Sarah Josepha Buell Hale was an American writer, activist, and editor of the most widely circulated magazine in the period before the Civil War, Godey's Lady's Book. She was the author of the nursery
Sarah Josepha Hale, 1831, by James Lambdin
Northwood: Life North and South (1852)
Grave of Sarah Josepha Hale in Laurel Hill Cemetery
An 1863 letter from Hale to President Abraham Lincoln discussing Thanksgiving