This is the third group of cover illustrations from the 1930s that someone clipped from magazines and stored away. Most of these are illustrations of various types of flowers.
I came across these while looking through some ephemera I bought at auction some time ago that I had put aside and forgotten. Some of the covers are signed and some are not. The illustrators included Malthe Hasselriis(painter and children’s book illustrator), Marinsky and Elizabeth Lansdell Hammell (painter who was said to have had a lovely flower garden),
What was just as interesting about these were the ads on the flip side of the pages.
Here’s a glimpse of some of the covers and ads. The other groups of illustrations used people and animals as the subjects.
An illustration of flowers by Elizabeth Lansdell Hammell that ran on the cover of the April 1932 Woman’s Home Companion.
An illustration of flowers by Marinsky. Flip side: An updated bathroom room with “structured glass” walls.
A stained-glass church window and boys choir illustration by Malthe Hasselriis. Flip side: A woman writes in her diary about how she learned to use Ivory Flakes to wash her silk nylons after her husband “scolded” her for running through so many stockings.
An unsigned illustration of flowers on the cover of Woman’s Home Companion. Flip side: Congoleum rug in a kitchen.
An illustration of lilies by Marinsky. Flip side: Armstrong “embossed inlaid” linoleum floor in a home office.
An unsigned illustration of poppies on the cover of American Home magazine.
An unsigned illustration of flowers. Flip side: Bon Ami cleanser.
