125 Years of Ladies' Home Journal: Family

In the second installment of LHJ's year-long trip down memory lane, we look at how family life has evolved in the last 125 years.

How America Lives: woman doing laundry for eight

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How America Lives

Family life has been the central focus of Ladies' Home Journal from the very beginning, as we have advised, encouraged, and applauded women in their roles as mothers, wives, and homemakers. The last century-plus has certainly been an era of tumultuous change for families, and Ladies' Home Journal covered all of it in vivid, thoughtful, and instructive ways. At left, a woman doing laundry for a family of eight.

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