[Clipping: "DPD vice unit wages 50-year war against gay men" and other highlighted news] (open access)

[Clipping: "DPD vice unit wages 50-year war against gay men" and other highlighted news]

Newspaper clipping from Pegasus News featuring the article that extends over multiple pages "DPD vice unit wages 50-year war against gay men" published in August of 2007. The article appears highlighted and focus on the the prosecution of the gay community by the DPD in Dallas through the abuse of sodomy and lewdness laws in the 1950s and 1960s.
Date: August 3, 2007
Creator: Webb, David
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Clipping: DPD vice unit wages 50-year war against gay men] (open access)

[Clipping: DPD vice unit wages 50-year war against gay men]

Article about the Dallas Police Department's inclusion of homosexuality in their war against 'lewdness.'
Date: August 3, 2007
Creator: Webb, David
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Song for a Lonely Girl] (open access)

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Song for a Lonely Girl]

A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a blonde Varga Girl wearing a low-back blue and white floral bodysuit paired with the verse "Song for a Lonely Girl" by Phil Stack. On the following side of the spread is a reproduction print of the painting "Bayonet Fighter with Wings" by Alexander Leydenfrost especially for the July edition of Esquire Magazine in 1944. The painting depicts a squad of nine soldiers unloading from a fighter plane that has landed in a field, carrying with them various weapons and ammunition while planes fly low overhead.
Date: July 1944
Creator: Vargas, Alberto; Stack, Phil & Leydenfrost, Alexander
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Esquire Magazine Illustrations of Varga Girl and Air Force Pilot] (open access)

[Esquire Magazine Illustrations of Varga Girl and Air Force Pilot]

A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a blonde Varga Girl in a pink and white patterned swimsuit paired with the verse "Beached for the Duration" by Phil Stack. On the following side is a spread of a reproduction print of the painting "The Pilot Who Wouldn't Bail Out" by John Falterdone especially for Esquire Magazine May 1944. The painting celebrates Airforce Captain Bob Hartzell, who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. A small tear can be seen near the model's right foot. On the backside, it is tapped.
Date: May 1944
Creator: Vargas, Alberto; Stack, Phil & Falter, John
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Esquire Magazine Illustrations of Varga Sailor Girl and a Horse Race] (open access)

[Esquire Magazine Illustrations of Varga Sailor Girl and a Horse Race]

Page from Esquire magazine featuring a spread of a blonde Varga Girl wearing a modified white naval dress uniform paired with a two stanza descriptive verse by Phil Stack. Following the pin-up is a reproduction print of the painting Man O' War Beating John P. Grier" by Frank Voss done especially for Esquire Magazine April 1945. The painting celebrates the famous American Thoroughbred racehorse Man O' War.
Date: April 1945
Creator: Vargas, Alberto & Voss, Frank
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: There'll Always Be a Christmas] (open access)

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: There'll Always Be a Christmas]

A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a blonde Varga Girl flying wearing a red, white, and blue sheer dress printed with the navy star paired with a two stanza verse "There'll Always be a Christmas" in a gothic font by Phil Stack. On the following side of the spread is a reproduction offset lithograph print of the painting The Unkillable Quarry by John Falter used especially for the December edition of Esquire Magazine in 1943. The painting/print depicts a soldier (possibly Japanese) in a green jumpsuit parachuting in front of an approaching gold fighter airplane. Behind the plane and the soldier are streaks of clouds in a black sky.
Date: December 1943
Creator: Vargas, Alberto; Stack, Phil & Falter, John
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Naval Air Transport Service magazine clipping] (open access)

[Naval Air Transport Service magazine clipping]

Magazine clipping of a single front and back leaf with full color lithograph commercially printed illustrations with descriptive text featuring airplanes and the Naval Air Transportation Service. The page serves as an advertisement for electric propellers and their role in the Pacific theatre of the war.
Date: [1939..1945]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Vacation Reverie] (open access)

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Vacation Reverie]

A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a blonde Varga Girl flying posing wearing a red bathing suit paired with a two stanza verse "Vacation Reviere" by Phil Stack. On the following side of the spread is a reproduction offset lithograph print of the painting Bombardiers Last Breath by John Falter used especially for the August edition of Esquire Magazine in 1943
Date: August 1943
Creator: Vargas, Alberto & Stack, Phil
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Magazine clipping with full color bleed images] (open access)

[Magazine clipping with full color bleed images]

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]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Victory Song ] (open access)

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Victory Song ]

A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a Varga Girl in costume as a patriot paired with a two stanza verse "Victory Song" by Phil Stack. On the following side of the spread is a reproduction offset lithograph print of a painting accompanied by descriptive text in the bottom margins especially for the August edition of 1943.
Date: August 1942
Creator: Vargas, Alberto; Stack, Phil; Benton, Thomas Hart & Colten
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Virtue Triumphs] (open access)

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Virtue Triumphs]

A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a blonde Varga Girl wearing a baby pink corset paired with the verse Virtue Triumphs! by Phil Stack. On the following side of the spread is a reproduction offset lithograph print of the painting The Hero Triumphs by John Falter used especially for the November edition of Esquire Magazine in 1943.
Date: November 1943
Creator: Vargas, Alberto & Stack, Phil
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Esquire Magazine Illustrations of Varga Cowgirl and Firefighter] (open access)

[Esquire Magazine Illustrations of Varga Cowgirl and Firefighter]

A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a blonde Varga Girl cowgirl wearing a denim bodysuit with matching, boots, spurs, belt, gloves, and hat paired with the verse Pistol Packin' Mama by Phil Stack. On the following side is a reproduction print of the painting Keeper of the Faith by John Falter done especially for Esquire Magazine March 1944. The painting depicts a firefighting soldier battling a blaze in the battered hull of a ship out of which can be seen two ships fighting in the distance.
Date: March 1944
Creator: Vargas, Alberto; Stack, Phil & Falter, John
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Clipping from a magazine featuring the air force and airplanes] (open access)

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

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]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Military Secrets] (open access)

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Military Secrets]

A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a blonde Varga Girl wearing a sheer dress printed with the verse "Military Secrets" by Phil Stack. On the following side of the spread is a reproduction offset lithograph print of the painting The Jap Eradicator by John Falter used especially for the September edition 1943. The painting depicts two soldiers camouflaged in jungle plants firing an automatic weapon.
Date: September 1943
Creator: Vargas, Alberto; Stack, Phil & Falter, John
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Hurrell Photograph: Constance Dowling] (open access)

[Hurrell Photograph: Constance Dowling]

A front and back spread from the January edition of Esquire Magazine 1944. This spread features a color reproduction of a Hurrell photograph of 1930s actress Constance Dowling [1920-1969] followed on the reverse by a reproduction offset lithograph print of the painting The Year of Our Lord, 1943 by John Falter.
Date: January 1943
Creator: Hurrell, George & Falter, John
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library
Affirmation List in Last Name Sequence (open access)

Affirmation List in Last Name Sequence

Pages listing the affirmation officers in last name alphabetical order.
Date: July 31, 1995
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Torches at Midnight] (open access)

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Torches at Midnight]

A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a redhead Varga Girl posed diagonally across the page wearing a black negligee paired with the two stanza verse "Torches at Midnight" by Phil Stack. On the following side of the spread is a reproduction offset lithograph print of the painting The Commander's Last Dive by John Falter used especially for the October edition of 1943. The painting depicts a Navy Commander hanging to the side of submarine forty-two as it sinks.
Date: October 1943
Creator: Vargas, Alberto; Stack, Phil & Falter, John
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Dali Girl (open access)

The Dali Girl

A page from Esquire Magazine featuring front and back Kodachrome photography collages.
Date: [1940..1949]
Creator: Blumenfeld, Erwin & Szyk, Arthur
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Torch Singer] (open access)

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Torch Singer]

A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a singing blonde Varga Girl wearing a floor-length black dress leaned against a piano paired with the verse "Torch Singer" by Phil Stack. On the following side of the spread is a reproduction print of the painting "The Mission to Port Lyautey" by John Falter used especially for the February edition of Esquire Magazine in 1944. The painting depicts a military jeep carrying 3 soldiers into oncoming weapons fire and explosions. Two soldiers sit in the vehicle flying both the American and French flags while the third is hanging on the outside and waving a white flag.
Date: February 1944
Creator: Vargas, Alberto; Stack, Phil & Falter, John
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Christmas Tidings] (open access)

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Christmas Tidings]

A spread from Esquire magazine featuring illustrations of women and descriptive text. The front page of the spread features a blonde Varga girl dressed in white and gold smiling and kneeling over a telegraph from her soldier paired with a two stanza verse by Phil Stack. On the following page is a reproductive print of the painting "The Ordeal of John Paul Jones" by Anton Otto Fischer done especially for Esquire Magazine. The painting celebrates prominent Scottish-born Naval commander John Paul Jones who served during the American Revolution and his crew aboard the Bonhomme Richard. On September 23, 1779, the crew engaged with the British Serapis and won with Jones giving the famous line "I have not yet begun to fight".
Date: December 1945
Creator: Vargas, Alberto; Stack, Phil & Fischer, Anton Otto
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Portrait of a younger Jack Evans]

Photograph of young Jack Evans in his Navy uniform, wearing a lei around his neck.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Song for a Solider] (open access)

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Song for a Solider]

A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a brunette Varga Girl flying wearing a sheer white nightdress paired with a two stanza verse "Song for a Solider" by Phil Stack. On the following side of the spread is a reproduction offset lithograph print of men's winter fashion illustrations by William Pachner paired with descriptive text of the scene depicting individuals gathered for the launch of a U.S submarine.
Date: March 1943
Creator: Vargas, Alberto; Stack, Phil & Pachner, William
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Matrimony Preferred] (open access)

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Matrimony Preferred]

A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a blonde Varga Girl styled as a bride with a short white off-the-shoulder dress and veil accented with gardenias paired with the verse "Matrimony Prefered" by Phil Stack. On the following side of the spread is a reproduction print of the painting "The Giant Killer" by John Falter used especially for the June edition of Esquire Magazine in 1944. The painting depicts a lone soldier silhouetted against the sky gunning down a tank on a hill overlooking a river on a clouded night.
Date: June 1944
Creator: Vargas, Alberto; Stack, Phil & Falter, John
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library
[True Magazine Petty Girl Illustration] (open access)

[True Magazine Petty Girl Illustration]

A page center spread from True magazine featuring an illustration of a blonde Petty Girl kneeling in a blue military uniform paired with the text "...so take my advice and just bet your shirt!" followed by a page of illustrations and descriptive text of fashionable American swimwear by painter William Pachner. Pin-ups by artist George Petty or "Petty Girls" first made their appearance in 1933 and into the 1950s set the standard for American female beauty. The hallmarks of Petty pin-ups are elongated limbs most noted in the legs, a flirtatious smile, and telephones.
Date: [1940..1955]
Creator: Petty, George
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library