Description: This is the December 1939 issue of American Home. It is the Christmas issue of the magazine and it has a great themed cover. The issue contains 92 pages and measures approximately 9.75 x 12.75 inches. There are numerous Christmas-related articles, other articles, black & white and color photos/illustrations as well as numerous vintage black & white and color advertisements. The magazine is a “time capsule,” allowing the reader to learn about home design and interior design from the late 1930s. In addition, there are many vintage black & white and color advertisements. The American Home was a monthly magazine published from 1928 to 1977. Its subjects included domestic architecture, interior design, landscape design, and gardening. The American Home was a continuation of the magazine Garden & Home Builder. It was published by Nelson Doubleday of Doubleday, Doran & Company. The American Home lost money its first four years, and occasionally entire issues would be omitted. William Herbert Eaton, its circulation manager, became publisher in 1932, and subsequently bought the magazine in 1935, forming American Home Publishing Company, which continued to publish it in New York City until he sold the magazine in 1958 to Curtis Publishing Company, its single-copy distributor. Under Eaton, the magazine was refocused toward the upper middle class reader, leaving the higher end of the home market to fellow Doubleday magazine Country Life, which Eaton also bought. By 1953, The American Home had a paid circulation of over 3 million copies, reaching a peak circulation of 3.7 million in 1962. As part of its desire to move out of mass circulation publications, Curtis sold the magazine in 1968 to Downe Communications. John Mack Carter purchased the magazine in 1973, and it was acquired in late 1975 by the Charter Company. After several years of losses, and in an era that saw the closure of the mass circulation magazines Life, Look and The Saturday Evening Post, the last issue of American Home, with a cover date of February 1978, was published in late 1977. It was then merged with the Charter magazine Redbook.
Price: 16.88 USD
Location: Hixson, Tennessee
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Publication Month: December
Publication Year: 1939
Language: English
Publication Frequency: Monthly
Publication Name: The American Home
Signed: No
Features: Illustrated
Genre: Home & Garden
Publisher: American Home Publishing Company
Topic: Decorating/homemaking/gardening
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subscription: Yes