Article about the Dallas Police Department's inclusion of homosexuality in their war against 'lewdness.'

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

Newspaper clipping from the lifestyle section of Dallas Voice featuring an article on Jack Evans and George Harris. The article, "Duo shares business, civic involvement", covers two pages on the relator duos community, business, and relationship philosophies.

A page from the August edition of Esquire magazine 1942. The front features a print of a color Hurrell photograph of actress Betty Grable [1916-1973]. The backside features a printed reproduction of the Declaration of Independence framed by columns and a painting depicting the continental congress by William Pachner.

Page from Esquire Magazine featuring a color portrait photograph of an unidentified woman and arrangement of reproduction lithographs of paintings by Maxim Kope including, Flamboyant, Women with Fishnet, Tahitian Widow, and Fighting Women. Clipped from the 1943 August edition.

Newspaper clipping from the Dallas Morning News published in August of 2011. The clipping includes an article on black authors, weather statistics, community calendar, and the obituaries. The clipping was saved in relation to a highlighted event in the community calendar to take place at The Resource Center on Thursday August 25th. The event is titled "Project: Dallas GLBT History".

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.

A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a laughing blonde Varga Girl wearing a red, white and blue one-piece swimsuit while surfing paired with the verse "Sitting Pretty!" by Phil Stack. On the following side of the spread is a reproduction print of the painting "Dempsey & Firpo by George Bellows from the Whitney Museum of American Arts' collection used especially for the August edition of Esquire Magazine in 1944. The painting depicts the dramatic moment when Argentinian Luis Firpo knocked American Jack Dempsey out of the ring into the crowd during their 1923 match. Dempsey would go to win the fight. Bellows gave himself a cameo as the balding man seen to the bottom left edge of the oil painting.

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.

A single front and back page from the August edition of Esquire Magazine 1947. The page features theatrical and dance-themed pin-ups by Fritz Willis and Joe De, Mers followed by small paragraphs of descriptive text at the bottom of each printed illustration.

Page from Esquire magazine featuring illustrations of women and descriptive text. On the first page, no. 57, a blonde woman considers her knitting project, which she holds up to her waist with the excess yarn around her chest. She stands in front of a chair that has her clothes on it and next to her knitting bag. Description references Ralph Waldo Emerson and the virtue of young women doing older woman's hobbies. On the facing page, an actress prepares her makeup for a show. She is seen kneeling on a chair in front of a lit mirror and vanity in purple underwear and tights.