Five Years of Godey's

[E Topping]

SPECIAL OFFER -- FIVE YEARS OF GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK
including all
CIVIL WAR FASHIONS on one DVD-ROM
http://civilwardigital.com
This collection, pictured below, has been designed for colleges and
universities seeking complete collections of Godey's Lady's Books, and for
Re-enactment and Civil War Roundtables seeking Civil War Fashions from the
years 1860-1864. The collection consists of those five years in ten
volumes on one DVD-ROM or Flash Drive in 300 dpi. The set contains 60
fashion plates indexed for easy searching within the collection. In
addition, the text includes hundreds of styles, embroideries, and patterns
from the original Godey text.
 
This collection is in public domain and can be downloaded, copied,
printed, or used commercially. Individual years of Godey's can be ordered
separately on the website. To order five years of Godey or to search our
other offers, please go to:
http://civilwardigital.com
       
            DVD-ROM set        $29.95 ($3.00 s/h) -- for Microsoft
computers
            Flash Drive            $39.95 ($3.00 s/h) - for Apple or
Microsoft computers
            For questions, contact Mike or Chet at info@civilwardigital.com

Elizabeth Topping

[E L Watkins-Morris]

I may be trying to do this too early in the morning.

I went to the site and other than a long description of the Godey's history there was no indication what was on the CD-Rom.

In your post (I assume it came from an email) it's not clear if they copied any articles or if this is just fashion illustrations.

Please clarify, then smack me for researching before the caffeine kicked in.

Liz W.

[E Topping]

I checked to see just what was being offered and here is the answer - I hope it helps!

You are probably looking at a few samples on the website that can be downloaded.
The collection offered on the DVD or Flash Drive is all five of Godey's complete books (around 600 pages each) for the years from 1860 through 1864. Each of those five years contain two complete volumes in each book. The first volume of each year contains all of Godey's magazines from January through June, and the second volume contains all of Godey's magazines for that year from July through December. This is the method Godey used when bundling the year's magazines into a single book. Each magazine contained the new ladies fasion for that month, so there are twelve fashions for each year and sixty fashions for the five years. To facilitate fashion selection, all sixty fashions can be viewed on one of the files on the DVD or Flash Drive. In addition to the fashions, the complerte magazines in each book offer patterns, embroideries, designs, illustrations, sheet music, stories, and an abundance of everything that interested women during the Civil War.

Elizabeth Topping
Ohio

[E L Watkins-Morris]

Ahhhhhh! Clarity 

[Sherry Key]

This sounds very enticing but has anyone purchased or used this?  Since I don't even own a computer at home yet, I am a novice in these things.  But, it does sound like a very useful thing to own.  And one of these days I will have to breakdown and get one.

Thanks for any advice,
Sherry Key.