Picture of the week: Fashion plate from Peterson's Magazine, 1890

"A minute's reading often provokes a day's thinking."
—W.H. Venable, 1872. "Something About Libraries, Books, and Reading."  The National Teacher. October, 1872, p. 382.

Ladies in a library.
Fashion plate from a November, 1890 edition of Peterson's Magazine​ in our private archive.

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