Brooks, Alice

Pattern advertisements

St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 259 West Fourteenth Street, New York

Collection of nearly 200 newspaper clippings of advertisements for doilies and other crochet and knitting patterns, mostly from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. All patterns are from Alice Brooks. Clippings date from 1936 to early forties. Not all are dated, but they are numbered in sequence. Some patterns have two different advertisements.

Collected by Aphrodite Hofsommer, donated by her granddaughter Sally Glaser, edited by Sytske Wijnsma.

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