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[LIFE Magazine cartoon grand prize illustration]

Description: Clipping from LIFE Magazine featuring a grand prize winning cartoon by Basil Wolverton. The cartoon appears to be a man with very pronounced teeth and ears smiling with this neck extended forward. The text below notes the detail that the artists wife thought the subject was too human to win a cartoon contest. The backside of the leaf includes lists of editors and contributors of the magazine and some advertisements.
Date: [1940..1952]
Creator: Wolverton, Basil
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping

[The 1943 Varga Girl Esquire Calendar]

Description: Pinup Esquire calendar from 1943, of The Varga Girl(s) by Peruvian-American painter Alberto Vargas. The calendar begins in January and ends with December, featuring verses by Phil Stack and a "checkpayer" wager and payoff scenario on the back of each pin up girl.
Date: 1943
Creator: Vargas, Alberto
Item Type: Refine your search to only Artwork

[The Varga Girl Calendar]

Description: Pinup calendar from 1942, of The Varga Girl(s) by Peruvian-American painter Alberto Vargas. The calendar begins in January and ends with December, featuring verses by Phil Stack and astrological signs on the back of each pin-up girl.
Date: 1942
Creator: Vargas, Alberto
Item Type: Refine your search to only Artwork

[Esquire's 1945 Varga Calendar Yearbook]

Description: Esquire's 1945 Varga calendar yearbook of The Varga Girl(s) by Peruvian-American painter Alberto Vargas. The calendar includes all months except January, September, and December. The yearbook includes pages dedicated to birthdays and anniversaries, and "good numbers" for addresses and telephone numbers. Additionally, there are comics from various artists on each month published under Esquire Inc.
Date: 1945
Creator: Vargas, Alberto
Item Type: Refine your search to only Artwork

[Two used text stencils]

Description: Two stencils cut from a dark paper like material. The first stencil bears the text "EVANS CH 289-517" and the other stencil bears the letters "CHE". The areas around the cut outs of the letters and numbers are darkened and marked from use. The first stencil was marked with a dark medium and the second a white chalk.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object

[Clipping from a magazine featuring the air force and airplanes]

Description: Magazine clipping of a single front and back leaf with full color lithograph commercially printed illustrations featuring the US Air Force and airplanes. The front illustrations shows a canary yellow "Hellcat" airplane flying framed by clouds with descriptive text that reads "Brightly-Painted Hellcat is believed a special gunnery target". The verso side shows soldiers looking over a map on a runway near a "button-nose" tagged plane.
Date: [1940..1950]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping

[1942 The Varga Girl Esquire Calendar]

Description: Pinup Esquire calendar from 1942, of The Varga Girl(s) by Peruvian-American painter Alberto Vargas. The calendar begins in January and ends with December, featuring verses by Phil Stack and a "checkpayer" wager and payoff scenario on the back of each pin up girl.
Date: 1942
Creator: Vargas, Alberto
Item Type: Refine your search to only Artwork

[Esquire Magazine clipping featuring a movie ad for "Anchors Aweigh"]

Description: Esquire Magazine clipping of a single front and back leaf with commercially printed illustrations paired with descriptive text. The front of the clipping features a motion picture advertisement for MGM's musical comedy in color film "Anchors Aweigh" starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson and Gene Kelly. The leaf shows photos of the actors in costume at the base of the ad. The back of the leaf includes a continued article titled "Man the Kitchenette" along with an aside titled "On the Edge of … more
Date: September 1945
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping

[Magazine clipping with full color bleed images]

Description: Magazine clipping of a single front and back leaf with full color lithograph commercially printed illustrations featuring a clarinet musician and a helicopter rescue mission. The font of the leaf shows a collage like image with music notes, clarinets, records, buildings and classic busts on a red background. The back of the page shows a helicopter coming to rescue a lone solider stranded in the ocean.
Date: [1939..1950]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
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