Godey's
Lady's Book and Magazine
Volume 57, January-June 1859
A Baby's First Shoe (Illustrated)
[with diagram]
163
A Bead Bracelet (Illustrated)
261
About Sisters-in-law, by a Sister-in-law
515
A Day's History, by Alice B. Haven [fiction]
48
A Fly Catch (Illustrated) [netting]
552
Alphabet of Fancy Letters (Illustrated)
Capitals,
A-Z, flowers and leaves
12
Capitals, A-Z,
grain
106
lower case, a-z,
floral and beads
204
Capitals, A-N,
floral and beads
300
Capitals, O-Z,
floral and beads
400
A New Baby [fiction]
537
A New Double Body (Illustrated) [with
diagram]
66, 74
Annie Oran, by Helen Hamilton [poem]
252
Anti-Macassar for an Easy Chair, in Crochet (Illustrated)
359
Arrangement for the Hair
45
A Sabbath in the Forest, by Mint
34
A Simple Song, by Desmarais [poem]
543
A Smile
238
Aunt Sophie’s visits, by Lucy N. Godfrey
223
A Villa in the Swiss Style (Illustrated) [with plans]
545
A Voice from a Stove in a Lady’s Sitting-room, by Swerdna
[poem]
61
A Week at Waveland, by Pauline Forsyth
[fiction]
127
Baby’s Shoe (Illustrated)
490, 550
Bead Watch-Case (Illustrated)
160
Beauty of Glass
152
Be Kind to All
417
Be Patient with Children
336
Be Punctual
256, 384
Bonnets (Illustrated)
256, 384
Border in Embroidery (Illustrated)
354
Border for Child’s Dress and Mantle (Illustrated)
167
Braided Note-Case (Illustrated)
202
Broad Line Drawing Lessons (Illustrated)
47, 142, 248, 332, 431, 529
Broches Frisettes; or, Curling Pins (Illustrated)
70
Broderie for a Skirt (Illustrated)
262
Capes (Illustrated)
64, 65, 159, 351, 453, 546
Caps (Illustrated)
256, 351, 453
Caught a Tartar (Illustrated)
97
Centre-Table Gossip, containing—
A
Household Treasure [sewing machine]
189
“A
Tack in Time”
572
A Word
for Carpets
380
Baby’s
Shoes, by W. C. Bennt [poem]
381
Bridals
[including bride's attire while in mourning]
571
Eugenie
and her Court
477
House
Cleaning
477
House
Gardening
No.
1—Bulbs in Pots or Glasses
91
No.
2—Rearing Hyacinths, etc.
190
No.
3—Window plants
285
No.
4—Caring for Potted Plants
381
No.
5—Annuals for the Home
478
No.
6—Hints on the Arrangement of Cut Flowers for the Parlor or
Sitting-Room
572
Notes
and Queries
Don't give children too much at once; Japan lily; can cup-cake recipe
with soda and cream of tartar instead of salaeratus; recommended
family books
92
New colors for dresses; carpet cleaners; air-tight coverings for jellies,
sweetmeats, etc.; the Mariposa
191
Safety stirrup; window garden; winter deserts; the brain
in childhood;
grass under trees
286
Remedies for suspended animation from drowning; house insects;
bonnet strings—wide or narrow; shoes for invalids
382
Mending bronze ornaments; George Sand
478
Carpet cleaners; rules for good fellowship; to arrange a bouquet;
crisp cakes
573
Play-Houses
92
Scraps
of Fashion Items---presentation fans, hair bracelet,
side-buttoned
walking boots, ball slippers or boots, morning slippers,
in-door
headdress
285
The
Workshop [for boys]
285
Wood-Carving
and Old Furniture in Florence
381
Charade [Ma-try-money]
438
Charades in Action (Illustrated)
[Com-fit]
239
Chemise Pattern (Illustrated)
548
Chemisettes (Illustrated)
160, 351, 454, 546
Chemistry for the Young
Lesson XI
(concluded)
78
Lesson XII.
Certain Tests and Precipitants Not Yet Treated for the
Metals
Silver, Lead, Mercury, and Copper
174
Lesson XII
(continued)
270
Lesson XII
(continued)
368
Lesson XII
(concluded)
463
Lesson XIII.
Preparation and Qualities of Hydrogen Gas—Analytical
Investigation of the Metal Zinc
571
China-Ware and Glass
247
CLOAKS, DRESSES, MANTILLAS, TALMAS, &c.
A
Girl’s Cloak (Illustrated)
108, 191
At
Home (Illustrated) [dress]
197, 287
Ball
or Party Dress (Illustrated) [with
diagram]
257
Barege
Robe (Illustrated)
484, 574
Children’s
Dresses (Illustrated)
200, 287
Children’s
Dresses for Spring (Illustrated)
389, 479
Dinner-Dress
(Illustrated)
390, 479
Dresses
for Morning Calls (Illustrated)
102, 191, 193, 287
Le
Printemps (Illustrated) [dresses]
388, 479
Morning
Neglige (Illustrated)
101, 191
Morning-Wrapper
(Illustrated)
8, 93
New
Styles of Mantilla, from Evans & Co.
(Illustrated)
292, 293, 361
Riding-dress
(Illustrated)
295, 383
Single
Skirt Organdie (Illustrated)
485, 574
Spring
Mantle (Illustrated)
392, 479
Spring
Mantles (Illustrated)
294, 383
Spring
Walking-Dress (Illustrated)
391, 479
The
Alhambran, from Brodie (Illustrated) [cloak]
264, 360
The
Almeda (Illustrated) [ball gown]
103, 191
The
Andalusian, from Brodie (Illustrated) [cloak]
393
The
Castilian, from Brodie (Illustrated)
[cloak]
9
The
Colson (Illustrated) [dress]
106, 287
The
Duchess (Illustrated)
3, 93
The
Marionetta (Illustrated) [dress]
6, 93
The
Mathilde Mantilla (Illustrated) [with
diagram]
105, 170
The
Mother (Illustrated) [dress, child's
dress]
199, 287
The
Piccolomini Robe de Chambre (Illustrated)
7, 93
The
Raphael Dress (Illustrated) [with
diagram]
355, 364
The
Saragossa, from Brodie (Illustrated)
[cloak]
486
The
Sevillian, from Brodie (Illustrated)
[cloak]
168
The
Victoria Pardessus (Illustrated) [with
diagram]
104, 169
The
Visiting Dress (Illustrated)
100, 191
The
Zanfretti Mantle (Illustrated) [with
diagram]
396, 398
Walking-Dress
(Illustrated)
198
Young
Lady’s Dress (Illustrated) [age
6-10]
11
Collar and Sleeves in Applique of Net and Muslin (Illustrated)
260|
Collars (Illustrated)
160, 256
“Content,” by Alice B. Haven
[fiction]
241, 324
Cora, by Mrs. J. D. L. [poem]
62
Corners for Pocket Handkerchiefs (Illustrated)
166, 259, 266, 356
Crochet a la Broderie Anglaise (Illustrated)
164, 261
Crochet Basket Purse (Illustrated)
266
Crochet Edging (Illustrated)
266, 362
Crochet Lace (Illustrated)
11, 105, 266, 362, 395, 459
Crochet Tidy (Illustrated)
394
Currant Branch Jeweled D’Oyley (Illustrated) [crochet with beads]
203
Curtain for a Bay Window (Illustrated)
481, 554
Design for Quilting (Illustrated)
550
Diagram of Ball or Party Dress (Illustrated)
258
Diagram of The Mathilde Mantilla (Illustrated)
170
Diagram of the Raphael Dress (Illustrated)
364
Diagram of The Victoria Pardessus (Illustrated)
169
Diagrams of Zanfretti Mantle (Illustrated)
398, 399
Different Styles for Filling Wheels (Illustrated)
266, 359
Douglas & Sherwood’s Celebrated Tournure Corset (Illustrated)
296, 297
Douglas & Sherwood’s New Matinee Skirt (Illustrated)
265
Early Spring, by Jno. B. Duffey [poem]
450
Editors’ Table, containing—
A Few
Words about the “Fashions”
81
A
Happy New Year
79
American
Schools and Colleges for Young Ladies
Baltimore Young Ladies' College; Oxford Young Ladies' College
[OH]; Ontario Young Ladies' Seminary [Canandaigua, NY];
Philadelphia School for Young Ladies
81
School of Design [Worcester, MA]; The Worcester (Mass.)
Academy of Fine Arts; New Ipswich Appleton Academy [NH];
Wesleyan Female College [Cincinnati]; Philadelphia School for
Young Ladies
176
Another
Great Work to be done. Will the
Women of America Engage
in It? [sunflowers as preventatives of
bilious fever, chills and
fevers]
273
A
Picture of Youth
175
A Poet
in Prose
561
A
Remarkable Teacher
176
Beautiful
Thoughts
371
Botany
as a Study for Young Ladies
562
Business
Men and Their Wife-Partners
465
Causes
and Consequence of Individual Character
371
Costume
versus Criticism [Illustrated]
271
God’s
Acre, by Beata [poem]
371
Heart
Thoughts, by Sarah J. Hale [poem]
273
Hugh
Miller and his Writings
272
Lines,
by Sarah J. Hale [poem]
371
My
Indian Garden, by E. L. [poem]
80
Ode on
the Centenary of Burns [poem]
464
Our
Editorial Correspondents
80
Our
Presentation Plate for 1859—Seven Ages of Woman
79
Popular
Literature
464
Progress
of Popular Education in Pennsylvania
370
Rosemary
Hill, by Kate Harrington [poem]
561
School
for Young Ladies
466
Subscribers
for the Washington Portrait
81, 178, 274, 372,
466, 562
Sunflowers
a Preventive of Fevers
370
The
American Ladies’ Mount Vernon Association
81, 177, 274, 372, 466, 562
The
Courtesies of Home Life
175
The
Love Pledge, by Mrs. Hale [poem]
176
The
Purchase of Mount Vernon
560
The
Rosetta Stone
369, 466
To
Academies and Schools
466
Tribute
to Captain Herndon
274
Warning
Words
371
What
Course of Reading is Best for a Woman?
80
Embroidery Border (Illustrated)
487, 549
Embroidery, Inserting, &c. (Illustrated)
71, 73, 74, 104, 108, 162, 163, 165, 166,
167, 169, 170,
202, 257, 262, 263, 266, 352, 354, 355, 356, 358, 359, 396, 398,
399, 456, 457,
458, 489, 547, 549, 553, 554, 555
Enigmas
62, 158, 254, 350, 451, 544
“Fair Eden in its Vernal Bloom,” by B. Frank Spalding [poem]
543
Faithful, by Charles Stewart [poem]
157
Fancy Pincushions, in Imitation of Animals
69
Fans for the Ladies, and Where They Come From (Illustrated)
Ancient
205
Medieval-Renaissance
301
Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Centuries
401
Farewell to Life, by Jno. B. Duffey
[poem]
543
Fashions
Dinner
dress; walking dress; evening dress; child's walking dress;
morning
wrapper, Piccolomini robe de chambre; dinner dress;
walking
dress; pardessus; morning dresses; wrappers; sleeves;
undersleeves; tucker; chemisette; dress bodies; belts and buckles;
furs
93
Walking
dress; carriage dress; double skirted dress; child's dress;
morning
neglige; visiting dresses; evening dress; child's cloak; children's
wraps;
ladies' wraps; evening hoods; sorties du bal; evening dresses;
color
combinations; trimmings; dress bodies; berthes; bonnets;
headdresses;
furs
191
Dresses;
walking dress; child's party dress; travelling dress; morning
reception dress; dresses for morning calls; children's clothing;
mourning; second mourning; evening dress; floral coiffures; dress
trimming; young ladies' coiffures
286
Carriage
dress; home dress; walking dress; child's dress; headdresses;
spring
mantles; riding habits; jackets; spring silk dresses; bonnets
[Illustrated]
382
Dinner
dresses; spring dresses; children's dresses; walking dress;
spring
mantle; travelling wraps; pardessus; New England shilling
calicoes; Scotch ginghams; other plain fabrics; spring silks;
children's hats; spring bonnets
479
Dinner
dress; walking dresses; child's dress; summer robes; summer
bonnets; children's straw hats; babies' hats; play hats; capelines or
drawn
hats; country straw hats; summer dresses
573
Fire-Board of Paper Flowers (Illustrated)
358
Fire-Screen of Pheasants’ Wings (Illustrated)
161
Firesides and Facts of the Revolution, by E.
F. Ellet [Reminiscences of the
Dutch Fork, SC; A
Quaker Community; William Maybin's Family;
Prisoners by
Stratagem; Clarke, of Newberry; A Man of Blood;
Ferguson and the
Patriots of the Fork; Two Generous Souls]
220
Fluted Embroidery (Illustrated)
353
“Forget You?” by Nilla [poem]
251
Formation of Dew
55
Frank Ward’s Second Love, by Helen Hamilton [fiction]
344
Friendship’s Vows, by J. R. Conyngham [poem]
544
Garden or Opera Hood (Illustrated)
[knitted]
201, 259
Gathered Flowers, by Norman W. Bridge [poem]
155
Gentleman’s Shirt Front (Illustrated)
459
Godey’s Arm-Chair
Business outlook good; Caldwell's Palace store; To Mr. Godey on the
Dried
Currant Subject [poem]
86
The
Flower-Garden—Annuals
184
Personal
Appearance of Washington; Breakfast with a President of the
United
States in 1794; Gardening for Ladies; Maxims of Chamfort;
The
Best Legacy; A Versified Paraphrase of the Lord's Prayer
[poem];
A Rain Song [poem]
280
Mendelssohn
Musical Institute [Pittsfield, MA]; Queer Epitaphs; J. J.
Reed's
Institute for Young Ladies [Philadelphia]; Types of Money;
Directions for Using the Toilet Curl Clasps; Child's Linen Books; A
Chapter
on Roses [includes list]
376
Patent
India Rubber Handle Table Knives; Miss Susan May, the Young
American Cantatrice; Complimentary Poem from Tallahassee; A
Newspaper; Parlors; Ladies Need to be Polite to Gentlemen; Shaler's
Carpet
Sweeper; The Two Lines [poem]; Poisons and Their Antidotes;
"Cures" for the Delicate Female; Jokes; The Queen of England's
Last
Reception
471
Self-Sealing
Fruit-Cans and Jars [Illustrated];
Society; Shawls; Jokes;
Parody
of Shakespeare's Seven Ages [poem]; Delicate Appetites
566
Godey’s Gold Dollar Purses (Illustrated)
70
Guardian Angels, by J. A. B. [poem]
449
Headdresses (Illustrated)
64, 65, 159, 255, 522, 546
Health Department, by Jno. Stainback
Wilson, M. D., Columbus, GA
Shall We Use Tea
and Coffee? Warming Rooms; What
Want of
Exercise Does; Time for Sleep;
Sabbath Feasts
84
Properties
of Tea and Coffee; Too Many Dishes; Bad Colds; Climate—
Southern Women
178
Sleeping-Rooms;
Exercise—Schools for Young Ladies
274
Exercise
Among the Fashionables—The Hope of Our Country
372
Beds;
The Laws of Dress; Long Dresses and Pointed Waists; Cooling
Off;
Management of the Hair; Fluids in the Stomach--Poisons;
Medical
Books for the People
467
Women
and Sunflowers Against Disease; Influence of Light on Health;
How
They Dine in Paris; Choosing a Physician
563
Hidden Joys, by Marian Gwynn [poem]
544
History, by Samuel Johnson
54
Home and the Homeless, by Annie Fraust (Illustrated) [fiction]
520
Home Manufactured Picture-Frame (Illustrated)
10, 66
Homespun and Velvet, by Marion Harland
[fiction]
109
Honiton Lace Sprig (Illustrated)
165
Hope’s Light is Shining yet, by Finley Johnson [poem]
543
How I Came to be Married the Second Time, by Virginia
F. Townsend
[fiction]
305
How the Ladies Live in Brazil (Illustrated)
493
How They Live in Paris (Illustrated)
385, 442
How to Economize and Conduct a Home
Role of the wife
134
The duties of the housewife, based
on your income; Carving
231
Setting a schedule; Storing food;
Caring for vessels and blankets;
Management of
washing; Keeping an inventory; Choosing meat 310
Purchasing in quantities;
Cleaning; Oil-Cloths
416
Schedule for typical day;
Frugality &n