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Encyclopedia > Good Housekeeping Seal

Good Housekeeping is a women's magazine owned by the Hearst Corporation, featuring articles about home economics as well as literary articles. It is well known for the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. The magazine was founded May 2, 1885 by Clark W. Bryan in Holyoke, Massachusetts.


The magazine achieved a circulation of 300,000 by 1911, at which time it was bought by Hearst. In 1966 it reached 5,500,000 readers.


Famous writers who have contributed to the magazine include:

Good Housekeeping Institute

The Good Housekeeping Institute, founded in 1900 as an "Experiment Station", awards the Good Housekeeping Seal (since 1909) to products advertised in the magazine that are acceptable for publication. It also produces a Buyer's Guide and issues reports.


It advocated for pure food as early as 1905, helping to lead to the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act. It prohibted the advertising of cigarettes in the magazine in 1952, 12 years before the Surgeon General's warning labels were required.


See also

External links

  • Good Housekeeping Magazine (http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/)
  • Good Housekeeping Institute (http://magazines.ivillage.com/goodhousekeeping/consumer/institute/articles/0,,284511_290570,00.html)
  • Library of Congress page (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/may02.html)

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Good Housekeeping Summary (955 words)
In 1900, the magazine founded its famous Good Housekeeping Institute, which moved to state-of-the-art facilities in New York in 1912 and came under the guidance of a renowned former chemist from the United States Department of Agriculture.
Good Housekeeping is a women's magazine owned by the Hearst Corporation, featuring articles about women's interests, product testing by The Good Housekeeping Institute, recipes, diet, health as well as literary articles.
Good Housekeeping Institute, founded in 1900 as an "Experiment Station", awards the Good Housekeeping Seal to products advertised in the magazine that are acceptable for publication.
Good Housekeeping - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (251 words)
Good Housekeeping is a women's magazine owned by the Hearst Corporation, featuring articles about women's interests, product testing by The Good Housekeeping Institute, recipes, diet, health as well as literary articles.
Good Housekeeping Institute, founded in 1900 as an "Experiment Station", awards the Good Housekeeping Seal to products advertised in the magazine that are acceptable for publication.
It prohibited the advertising of cigarettes in the magazine in 1952, 12 years before the Surgeon General's warning labels were required.
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