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[Clipping: The Neighbors]

Description: Newspaper clipping of a one-panel comic depicting a young woman angrily putting on a coat, talking to an older woman sitting in a living room. The caption reads, "Some day all the women will be telling their grand-children how they ferried bombers and stuff! I'll be pointed out as the one who sat evenings with the neighbors' children." Advertisements with illustrations for clothing are visible on the back of the clipping.
Date: November 13, 1942
Creator: Clark, George
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Clipping: WASP comic]

Description: Newspaper clipping of a comic depicting female plane mechanics discussing their male counterparts over lunch, next to an airplane. The caption reads, "They never try to get fresh with me. They're always too busy trying to keep up with me on the JOB."
Date: October 26, 1942
Creator: d'Alessio, Gregory
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[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
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Postcard of Squirrel Cartoon]

Description: Postcard with cartoon of a man and woman looking at a squirrel with a nut in the foreground, with a woman playing tennis in the background. Text on the cartoon says "Rather nutty here- But I like it!" A handwritten note addressed to Miss Hellen Aten says "Give my regards to the girls. Hello Hellen, Just a line I am at White Howen on a visit up at George Sister. Still thinking of you girls come and see me. Marie K."
Date: September 1942
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Cartoon of Edward Marshall]

Description: Cartoon of a soldier being carried between two policemen, with a building labeled "P.X." in the background. a handwritten note says "Our boy Marshall after a few bottles of beer." A typed note says "Cartoon by Peter Renna (HQ-56) of new member Edward Marshall (HQ-56)."
Date: [1943..1945]
Creator: Renna, Peter
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Photograph of Cartoons by Peter Renna]

Description: Photograph of two cartoons drawn by Peter Renna. The first cartoon is of a soldier holding hands with a woman whose skirt is blowing in the wind, with a handwritten caption: "P.T.C. Renna With His Brooklyn Girl." The second cartoon is of two soldiers (Myron Rosen and Demick) whistling at a woman walking between them, with a handwritten caption: "How Our Two Great Lovers Spent Their Time In Town."
Date: [1943..1945]
Creator: Renna, Peter & Marshall, Ed
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Photograph of French Christmas Cartoon]

Description: Photograph of a Christmas cartoon, with illustrations of people and monuments in France, including "Place Vendôme, Tour Eiffel, Montmartre, Notre-Dame, Opéra, La Madeleine, Place de l'Étoile, and Les Invalides." A banner in the middle says "A Merry X-Mas," and a handwritten note on the back of the photo says "Merry Christmas and Happy new Year- 'Woodie.'"
Date: 1944
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Postcard of Cartoon Man in Plane]

Description: Postcard with a cartoon of a man flying a plane and shouting "I'm plane-ly up in the air over you.....why don't you write?" A handwritten note addressed to Clara Aten & Family from Nevin E. Hermsinger says "Dear Friends, I received your card today, sure glad to hear from you, and that you are all well, I am O.K. had a cold, but it is a little better now. Yes, it is getting colder here now. But you can send a little rain this way if you get too much. Ha ha. I hear it is raining a lot there, but … more
Date: November 14, 1943
Creator: Hermsinger, Nevin E.
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Postcard of Cartoon]

Description: Postcard of a cartoon of a man and woman kissing, with another woman watching from behind a rock, exclaiming, "Two Timer!" Text on the cartoon says "Advice on Care of 'Babies', Babies should be changed often~ especially in vacation time. Greetings from Castle Point, N.Y." A handwritten note addressed to Miss Hellen Aten says "Hello Hellen haveing a fine time to-day believe it or not I am here on a trip. Marie K."
Date: [1941..1943]
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Postcard of Child in Toilet]

Description: Postcard with a cartoon of a child standing in a toilet bowl and pulling the chain, with text that says "Dis shower am busted, but ah still am o.k., so ah's sendin dis 'ere card, for ah have no more to say." A handwritten note addressed to Miss Helen Aten from Henry Grunen says "Well how are you I am ok still kicking an playing just as usaly. Henry."
Date: May 1943
Creator: Grunen, Henry
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Postcard of Woman and Airplane Cartoon]

Description: Postcard with a cartoon of a plane landing next to a woman, and text that says "It's plane to see...I'd like a letter from you!" A handwritten note addressed to Mrs. Clara Aten & Family from Nevin E. Herminger says "Dear Friends: I received your card, glad to hear from you. So you're having frosts up there, I guess we won't have any here, it is too warm here. Glad to hear the war loan is going good up there. Hope it does everywhere. It rained Fri. a little here, the first since we're out here I… more
Date: September 26, 1943
Creator: Hermsinger, Nevin E.
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Postcard of Cartoon Couple]

Description: Postcard of a cartoon man and woman with a car near a sign, "Bill's Gas Station 5 mi.," with text that says "What was a lucky break in courting days - is now just another pain in the neck!" A handwritten note addressed to Miss Hellen Aten says "Hello Hellen, I'm doing fine you know me only I miss all my boy friends I would would I. Boy it sure is hot here. But is sure is some grand place here will hate to go back to [?]. Katherine."
Date: July 1944
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[Postcard of Army Cartoon]

Description: Postcard with a cartoon of a drill sergeant yelling at two men in Army uniforms, with text that says "This Army life will make real men out of you!" A handwritten note addressed to Miss Helen Aten says "Dear Helen, Sorry for the long delay. Hope you are well. Please drop me a card or letter. Give my regards to all the girls. Here is my address also tell [?] her address if you write [?] to me. Your Pal, Helen."
Date: October 1943
Partner: The 12th Armored Division Memorial Museum

[True Magazine Petty Girl Illustration]

Description: A spread page from True magazine featuring an illustration of a blonde Petty Girl paired with the text "Don't tell me that's a bobby too!" followed by the illustration "A sight-seers map of Manhattan" by Paul Savitt. Savitt's map is an illustrative cartoon numbered and labeled with locations, people, streets, and buildings with descriptive text, as the 77 essential things to do in Manhattan. Pin-ups by artist George Petty or "Petty Girls" first made their appearance in 1933 and into the 1950s… more
Date: 1946
Creator: Petty, George & Savitt, Paul
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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