Last night’s adventure was going through a 41 pound lot of The Country Gentleman magazines published between 1915 and 1927.
Here are some of the covers (and one random ad portion) I uncovered while going through this rough but rather large lot.
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One of the finest Halloween covers in American magazine history.
Art by the brilliant Earl Oliver Hurst.