Theda Bara: 1920s Sex Symbol
(Atlanta Georgian, 1917)
An enthusiastic review of the Hollywood silent film, The Tiger Woman
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A Humane Act at Gettysburg’s Bloody Angle
(Literary Digest, 1913)
During the 1913 Battle of Gettysburg’s fiftieth anniversary commemoration, a surviving member of Picket’s Charge encountered the Federal soldier who had saved his life at the Bloody Angle; this is the moving story of their encounter.
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World War One Clip Art: Otto Dix
Attached you will find assorted German Army figures by German Expressionist and World War I infantry veteran Otto Dix
(Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix 1891 – 1969). He served as a machine gunner for much of the war.
Living the Life
(Pageant Magazine, 1957)
This is the new suburban America… It has developed since the Second World War. It is within hollering distance of a big city but has a definite will of its own. Its people are youngish and their numbers growing. To find out what goes on in such a community, PAGEANT MAGAZINE made a study of one typical postwar suburb: Levittown, Long Island. It has 82,000 people, fairly young; the town is 12 years old and still growing fast. What happens there [each year] is typical of the new American ‘normal’:
• Average Income: $6,100.00
• Deaths: 304
• Births: 2,760
• Divorces: 101
• HS Graduates: 285
• College-Bound Graduates: 60
• Auto Accidents: 355
Celebrity Wedding: Lucile Ball and Desi Arnaz
(Photoplay Magazine, 1941)
Attached you will find a small illustrated notice from the shameless gossips at PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE reporting on the surprise 1941 wedding that took place between Lucile Ball and Desi Arnaz.
PHOTOPLAY acknowledged the nay-saying Hollywood romance prophets who predicted doom for the union of these two Rhumba Stars – but in the end, they were right: Lucy and Desi divorced in May of 1961.
A Humane Act at Gettysburg’s Bloody Angle
(Literary Digest, 1913)
During the 1913 Battle of Gettysburg’s fiftieth anniversary commemoration, a surviving member of Picket’s Charge encountered the Federal soldier who had saved his life at the Bloody Angle; this is the moving story of their encounter.
(Due to the broken title link above, you must Click here to read the article)