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Christmas Shopping for Women in Service (Harper's Bazaar, 1918)
1918, Harper's Bazaar Magazine, Recent Articles, Women (WWI)

Christmas Shopping for Women in Service
(Harper’s Bazaar, 1918)

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Contrary to those trust-fund babies who lord over the Harper’s Bazaar of today, the editors and stylists of that magazine during World War I understood quite well the vital rolls American women were needed to fill while their country was struggling to attain proper footing in a state of total war. The attached file will show you seven photographs of various accessories recommended for W.W. I women war volunteers as well as two illustrations of various practical coats for winter.


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Christmas 1952 | President-Elect Eisenhower Korean Peace 1952
1952, Quick Magazine, Recent Articles, The Korean War

The Third Christmas in Korea
(Quick Magazine, 1952)

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As 1952 was coming to an end President Truman must have seemed delighted to pass along to the next guy all the various assorted trouble spots that existed throughout the world. President-Elect Eisenhower had promised peace during his presidential campaign – but many of the issues at hand were interrelated: French Indochina, South Africa, the Middle-east, the Iron Curtain and, of course, Korea.

1942 Data on Women in the Work Force | 1942 Women War Worker Records
1942, PM Tabloid, Women (WWII)

Women In The War Effort
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

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Eight months into America’s entry into the war came this article from PM reporting the War Manpower Commission and their data as to how many American women up to that point had stepped up to contribute their labor to the war effort (over 1,500,000):

Women have been found to excel men in jobs requiring repetitive skill, finger dexterity and accuracy. They’re the equals of men in a number of other jobs. A U.S. Employment Service has indicated women can do 80 percent of the jobs now done by men.

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1951, Pathfinder Magazine, The New Look

Fashion’s Rainmaker
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1951)

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In the February of 1947, he opened eyes and mouths all over the world by showing almost-ankle-length daytime dresses. In the United States this length was christened the New Look. And Christian Dior had won, by inches the title, King of Fashion. His title is still secure. Dior designs accounted for an estimated 60% of total haute couture exports last year.

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Donna Reed as Mary Bailey (Coronet Magazine, 1960)
1960, Coronet Magazine, It's A Wonderful Life, Recent Articles

Donna Reed as Mary Bailey
(Coronet Magazine, 1960)

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A profile of the Hollywood actress Donna Reed (born Donna Belle Mullenger: 1921 – 1986), who will foreve be remembered for her portrayal of the character Mary Bailey in the Frank Capra film, It’s a Wonderful Life(RKO, 1947).


This interview was published as one more publicity element that was created to promote her television program, The Donna Reed Showstyle=border:none (ABC, 1958 – 1966), that was launched a year and a half earlier, and serves as a nice summary of her life and career up until 1960. Reed refers to her earliest days growing up on a family farm in Iowa, her salad years as a maid, librarian and community college student in Los Angeles and her deepest frustrations with pin-headed casting agents who placed her in limited rolls for so many years.

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Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey (Photoplay Magazine, 1939)
1939, It's A Wonderful Life, Photoplay Magazine, Recent Articles

Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey
(Photoplay Magazine, 1939)

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The appeal of James Stewart, the shy, inarticulate movie actor, is that he reminds every girl in the audience of the date before the last. He’s not a glamorized Gable, a remote Robert Taylor. He’s ‘Jim’, the lackadaisical, easy-going boy from just around the corner.


The above line was pulled from the attached article which was one of the first widely read profiles of Jimmy Stewart (James Maitland Stewart 1908 – 1997). Written four years after his arrival in the California dream factory and printed during the same year as his first encounter with the director Frank Capra in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, this article reveals that Stewart had a small town upbringing and was essentially the same character he played in It’s A Wonderful Life.

Booth Tarkington might have created Jim Stewart. He’s ‘Little Orvie and Billie Baxter’ grown up ‘Penrod’ with a Princeton diploma.


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Iceberg Warnings as Early as January (Popular Mechanics, 1912)
1912, Popular Mechanics Magazine, Recent Articles, Titanic History

Iceberg Warnings as Early as January
(Popular Mechanics, 1912)

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The attached two paragraphs appeared in Popular Mechanics some six weeks prior to the maiden voyage of Titanic:

As many as 4,500 different bergs have been actually counted in a run of 2,000 miles; estimated heights of from 800 to 1,700 feet are not uncommon, and bergs with lengths of from 6 to 82 miles are numerous.


The notice indicated that if the Indian Ocean is suffering such a large number then certainly it can be surmised that the North Atlantic will be plagued doubly. It stands to reason that if the editors of this magazine were aware of the heavy presence of South-bound icebergs, then the naval community must also have been in the know.

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WW 2 Sex | Sex During WWII
1955, Coronet Magazine, Recent Articles, World War Two

Sex During the Second World War
(Coronet Magazine, 1955)

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At the beginning of World War II, our army was a mixture of callow boys and and domesticated men. The older men were homesick for wives and children…There were plenty of lonely wives, too, and it soon became evident that a fair number of them were committed to the belief that continence was bad for women.


Marriage vows were one of the unsung casualties of the Second World War: by 1944 many married women who hadn’t seen their drafted husbands in years began producing babies; you can read about that here…


In 1943 a woman on the home front introduced a sexual component that she believed would bring an end to the problem of industrial absenteeism – click here to read about her idea…

Japanese Feudalism Overturned (Pathfinder Magazine, 1945)
1945, Pathfinder Magazine, Post-War Japan, Recent Articles

Japanese Feudalism Overturned
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1945)

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The reforms that were imposed upon Occupied Japan in the Forties and Fifties did not simply come in the form of death sentences for war criminals – but additionally the Japanese came to know the rights and protections that are guaranteed to All Americans under the United States Constitution. For the first time ever Japanese women were permitted to vote, unions were legalized and equality under the law was mandated. This small notice concerned the overthrow of the feudal laws that governed the Japanese tenant farmers.

General Robert L Eichelberger Eighth Army commander | Eighth Army Occupation of Japan 1945 | Diseases in Occupied Japan 1945
1945, Newsweek, Post-War Japan

The Work Starts
(Newsweek Magazine, 1945)

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As the American occupation forces began to pour in and spread throughout the cities and countryside of Japan, both occupied and occupier slowly get to learn of the other. The cordial attitude of the Japanese leads General MacArthur to conclude that the military presence need not be as large as he had once believed:

Curious and awed, increasingly friendly Japanese flocked to watch what they called the ‘race of giants’ at work.

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WAC Women Christmas 1945 |
1945, Newsweek, Recent Articles, WACs

WACs at Christmas
(Newsweek Magazine, 1945)

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By the time the war ended the WACs were 100,000 strong –
they had earned 314 medals and commendations, including 23 Legion of Merit awards and fourteen Purple Hearts. Throughout the war, seventeen thousand WACs had served overseas but by Christmas of 1945 their global strength had been cut in half.

New Fashioned Girls (Flapper Magazine, 1922)
1922, Flappers, Recent Articles, The Flapper Magazine

New Fashioned Girls
(Flapper Magazine, 1922)

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Unearthed by a team of underpaid urban anthropologists digging all hours in the skankiest and most vile of magazine repositories was this single page of feminine poesy representative of an obscure, forgotten genre of Twentieth Century prosody that celebrated a brash cast of woman that was once known as a Flapper.
Alas, the name of the poet has been lost to time.

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