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Honorable mention

Good Housekeeping, in my humble opinion, ripped of the picture my great-grandmother won honorable mention with. But then again, who knows. The inset photo is the photograph that received honorable mention in a Miami newspaper photo contest around 1928. The picture of the two kids with buckets is of my Grandma and her sister in Miami. View full size.

Good Housekeeping, in my humble opinion, ripped of the picture my great-grandmother won honorable mention with. But then again, who knows. The inset photo is the photograph that received honorable mention in a Miami newspaper photo contest around 1928. The picture of the two kids with buckets is of my Grandma and her sister in Miami. View full size.

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Jessie Willcox Smith

The photo is so like the cover that it was surely the source, and it's very seldom that the inspiration for a cover painting can be sourced. Good Housekeeping's cover artist was Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935), one of America's most popular and successful illustrators, who must have seen the newspaper photo and knew a good subject for a cover when she saw it. She produced every Good Housekeeping cover from 1918 through April, 1933, and was paid $1,800 for each cover painting, much more than a typical skilled worker's annual salary in that period.

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