What was Thanksgiving dinner like in the Colonial days? Find out how to make roast turkey with pumpkin sauce, Georgia potatoes, succotash, election cake and other classic dishes
Here are 20 classic mincemeat recipes (used to make the holiday favorite, mince pie) – as remembered through the decades by chefs, cookbook authors, in newspapers and family cookbooks.
Old-fashioned eggnog recipes come in many varieties, so here are more than a dozen – though definitely take a look at the traditional Southern egg nog how-to, which will apparently allow the spirit of Christmas to descend upon you.
What kind of Thanksgiving food did people enjoy years ago? Here’s a look back at some restaurant menus from holidays past – some of which our modern-day feasts seem simple in comparison.
How did our great-great grandparents send holiday greetings? Probably with antique Christmas cards just like these! Take a fond look back to the yuletide season from more than a century ago.
Labor Day marks a new epoch in the annals of human history. It differs from some of the other holidays of the year in that it glorifies no armed conflicts or battles of man’s prowess over man.
As you can see from these Vintage Coney Island photos & postcards, This beach area just outside New York City was one of the most popular resorts in the United States.
There’s so much history packed into the history of the American flag, that doesn’t only represent the states in the country, but the evolution of the USA.
Before air conditioning and refrigerators existed, here’s how peolple managed to stay cool during the great New York heat wave of 1911.
Here are more 20 colorfully-illustrated vintage Memorial day postcards for the national American holiday originally known as Decoration Day. These antique cards are all from the early 1900s.
Here is a collection of 15 colorful vintage Easter postcards from the early twentieth century!
Here, see a collection of antique & vintage St Patrick’s Day postcards — sweet little hello notes people sent to each other a century ago!
Without the kind of winter weather equipment we take for granted, removing snow from city streets and sidewalks was a huge undertaking. Here’s a look!
Take a look back at how people celebrated Thanksgiving Day with these antique Thanksgiving postcards from around the turn of the century!
Stored away and preserved for fifty years, this lovely heirloom wedding dress of silk satin was easily converted into a modern wedding gown for a new bride.
Planning a wedding with a classic old-fashioned feel? Check out this collection of beautiful vintage wedding dresses from the first decade of the 1900s!
Here’s a selection of vintage postcards to celebrate Independence Day — aka the 4th of July — all dating back to the first two decades of the 20th century!
Have you ever wondered about Mother’s Day — like how it got started? In the early years of the 20th century, Anna Jarvis started a movement that spread throughout the world: the custom of observing the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day.
Happy New Year! Here are some vintage postcards sent by people in the first part of the 1900s to wish friends and family a happy new
The short story by Lucy Maud Montgomery, ‘Christmas at Red Butte,’ was published after her best-known work, ‘Anne of Green Gables,’ first delighted readers. Read it for free here!
So pretty, such fun to do! One of the nicest Christmas customs we know is having both young and old make ornaments for the tree!
Christmas puzzles: Ingenious homemade games for holiday gifts The picture puzzle fad has received a new lease on life, which promises to make this coming Christmas
The Majestic is an attractive house at all times of the year, but it is additionally so in the summer, because of its beautiful roof garden.
Summer swimming in NYC Gotham’s youth are fortunate in the number of opportunities for swimming which the city’s configuration presents. Many a graceful and expert
Traveling requisites for the summer vacationist The trunk and traveling-bag maker is a wide awake man. He’s got to be so long as folks travel
Summer parties and entertaining duties never cease — there are always garden fetes, weekends, luncheons and bridge suppers to be planned and executed.
The wedding cake, luscious and delicate of taste, with its wonderful exterior covering of ornamental sugar icing, wrought in various devices, is an institution honored by long patronage and full appreciation.
Just as pretty and as neat as you can, dears, but do dress sensibly and comfortably.
Make Easter egg shell dollies by Lina Beard The little eggshell dollies are so bewitching, you will surely want a lot of them to be
A recent bride chose an artistic method to display her wedding gifts. All the furniture was taken out of a room, and here she arranged her gifts most attractively.
What would Christmas be to the children — or even the grownups — without some of the special candies and good things appropriate to the
Decorating the Thanksgiving table? Never before In the history of Thanksgiving dinners have the color schemes for trimming up the dining-room been so delightful as this year.
An Easter wedding The week following Easter has always been a favorite time for weddings. Here are a few suggestions for the girls who may
by Mrs Osborn, creator of fashions for the fashionable women of America A) Wedding dress with Valenciennes lace & embroidered roses A wedding gown of
Of her Prince Charming she had long dreamed And now wished to see him, so it seemed. Into the mirror she looked with delight, But
The rainbow, with its softly blending colors, makes a delightful motif for a home entertainment, especially for a gathering of little people.
Jack Horner real Mother Goose, we have known for some time, was a “truly” person who lived in Boston and wrote the famous jingles for
To avoid heat strokes Dr William C Woodward’s views on a timely subject The warming and cooling of the body by natural methods — Work
Linen skirts for general wear Linen skirts — short skirts, too, in spite of everything that has been said and done against them — are
The brilliant little brownie Here are three vintage Kodak Brownie ads from 1901: Top photo of a girl with her Brownie camera from the
Observance of St Patrick’s Day in early times in Southern states The day was appropriately observed in Baltimore in 1795 Irishmen are taking much interest in the
Fanciful costumes of paper The woman whose creative ability first inspired the making of paper costumes in flower shapes for children was more of an
Vintage valentine card Front: A Valentine to my sweetheart Inside: Not thinkin’ ’bout the weather, nor what people say or do. Not thinkin’ ’bout a
Day when hearts are trumps Minneapolis women cleverly adapt timely ideas and games to suit the tradition of Valentine’s Day A favorite season for entertaining
Making of 30,000 valentines For months, a dozen Minneapolis women have been busy with paints and brushes illustrating sentimental and humorous, lines — and new
It must be love Here’s a sweet selection of vintage Valentine’s Day postcards from the 1900s and 1910s — little love notes people sent to
How to prevent and relieve tan, sunburn and freckles It is only after Old Sol has gotten in his fine work and the souvenirs of
Steamed raspberry pudding Ingredients: One egg, one-half cupful of milk, two tablespoonfuls sugar, one tablespoonful butter, one-half tablespoonful baking powder sifted into one cupful of
Be your own caterer Every one remembers the gingerbread novelties of the days of his youth. There was a fascination about the gingerbread animals that
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