The Work Basket Home Needlecraft Magazine 1952-1954-1956 Lot Of 23 Issues

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(23) The Workbasket" Magazines
(7) 1952
(9) 1954
(7) 1956
The first and, in many ways, still the best crafts magazines
You've seen them, heck, a lot of us have seen them and, at some point, probably used a pattern out of them. The 'Workbasket Magazine' started out as 'Aunt Martha's Workbasket, Home and Needlecraft for Pleasure and Profit' in October of 1935. It was the brainchild of Clara and Jack Tillotson from Kansas City, MO. The Great Depression had the country in it's grip and if people needed something, they made it for themselves. There was no money to buy anything and sometimes if you had the money, what you were looking for wasn't on the shelves. A magazine that supplied people with the patterns to make things for themselves was just what was needed at that time.
The first publication was a 16 page issue and, at the time, they were printed on newsprint, not the glossy stuff that is used now for magazines. The original price for the magazine? 15 cents per copy or $ 1.00 for a year's subscription. That was a standard magazine subscription price for that decade.