Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The American Woman’s Home. New York: J.B. Ford & Co., 1869 [salesman’s sample].

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Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The American Woman’s Home. New York: J.B. Ford & Co., 1869 [salesman’s sample].

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The American Woman’s Home was co-authored by Catharine Beecher and her sister Harriet Beecher Stowe. It is a detailed manual of the ideal American home’s layout and decoration, including floor plans and furniture layouts for each room. The sisters argued for the importance of women’s domestic roles and labor within the home. This salesman’s sample book includes page samples of the text and the different binding options available. Blank pages at the end have been filled in by hand with subscribers’ information.
Title page of Page from Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe's The American Woman's Home. Printed illustrations of a house and a women with their children.
Page from Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe's The American Woman's Home. Shows a floorplan and model layout of a kitchen.
Page from Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe's The American Woman's Home with manuscript subscribers' names and information.