Vintage family illustration

♥ One of my favourite images! Found this original illustration while looking through some of my grandma's old papers.

You’re probably familiar with the article published in Housekeeping Monthly in May of 1955 on how to be a good wife. It was called, “The Good Wife’s Guide,” and it detailed all the ways that a wife should act and how best she can be a partner to her husband and a mother to her

Let us have homes crowned with the clambering vine, amid the cooling shade of trees, surrounded with the verdant lawn, with pendant berries, with golden fruits, and cluster of purple grapes. Homes graced with pictures, refined by books, and gladdened with song. Homes in which there shall be no scorching blasts of passion, no polar storms of coldness and hate. Homes in which the wife and mother shall not lose all her attractive charms by unremitting drudgery and toil, nor the husband starve…

"Father’s Day" (J.C. Leyendecker)

Hananiah Harari - "Thanksgiving"

These 14 parenting tips definitely belong in the past.

View Making Dreams Come True, Shaw and Barton calendar (1961) By Arthur Saron Sarnoff; Gouache on board; 29.5 x 39 inches; Signed; . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.

Woman's Day-Feb 1952

"This is America" by Andrew Loomis