Portrait of a Christmas Eve (open access)

Portrait of a Christmas Eve

Page from Esquire magazine featuring illustrations of women and descriptive text. On the first page, landscape-oriented painting done by Al Moore of a blonde woman laying on a polar bear skin rug with her arms around the jaw. On the following page is a painting recreating a fictional Victorian Christmas evening party by Leslie Saalburg.
Date: December 1947
Creator: Moore, Al & Saalburg, Leslie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Piquante (open access)

Piquante

Page from Esquire magazine featuring illustrations of women and descriptive text. On the first page, by Coby Whitmore, a brunette woman admires her reflection in a tall black standing mirror and considers the ties to her hat while in a state of topless undress. On the facing page, by Ben Stahl, a Spanish ballerina removes her costume stockings. Both illustrations/ paintings were done specifically for the December 1947 issue.
Date: December 1947
Creator: Whitmore, Coby & Stahl, Ben
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
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Calendar Introduction Page] (open access)

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Calendar Introduction Page]

A single page front and back clipped from the Esquire Magazine Varga Girl 1944 calendar advertisement. A rectangular section has been removed from the lower right corner. On the front is the calenders introduction and advertising information found in the descriptive text. On the back are previews of the illustrations paired with descriptive verses for months July through December.
Date: December 1943
Creator: Vargas, Alberto
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
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Hurrell Photograph: Janet Blair] (open access)

[Hurrell Photograph: Janet Blair]

A front and back spread from the December edition of Esquire Magazine 1942. This spread features a color reproduction of a Hurrell photograph of singer and Columbia Studios actress Janet Blair [1921-2007] followed on the reverse by a Santa Varga Girl paired with the verse "Miss Santa Claus" by Phil Stack.
Date: December 1942
Creator: Hurrell, George; Vargas, Alberto & Stack, Phil
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Merry Christmas and How!] (open access)

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Merry Christmas and How!]

A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a blonde Varga Girl sitting under a spring of mistletoe wearing a black dress and gold shoes paired with the verse "Merry Christmas and How!" by Phil Stack. On the following side is a reproduction print of the painting "Roberston Comes Through" by Peter Helck done especially for the December edition of Esquire Magazine in 1944. The painting shows a large crowd of men gathered around the muddy and tight homestretch turn of Long Island Motor Parkway racetrack where two automobiles, number 16, Locomobile driven by 23-year-old George Roberston is in the lead followed by car number 6, an Isotta, driven by Herbert "Herb" Lytle.
Date: December 1944
Creator: Vargas, Alberto; Stack, Phil & Helck, Peter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Varga Calendar Preview Advertisement] (open access)

[Varga Calendar Preview Advertisement]

Page from Esquire magazine featuring Varga Girl illustrations for the December issue 1944. Illustrations are previews for the upcoming 1945 Varga Girl calendar.
Date: December 1944
Creator: Vargas, Alberto & Sader
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Hurrell Photograph: Pamela Randall] (open access)

[Hurrell Photograph: Pamela Randall]

A front and back spread from the December edition of Esquire Magazine 1940. This spread features a color reproduction of a Hurrell photograph of actress Pamela Randall [1918-1991] followed on the reverse by eight card illustrations featuring reproductive etchings by Howard Baer and descriptive text by Phil Stack.
Date: December 1940
Creator: Hurrell, George; Stack, Phil & Baer, Howard
System: The UNT Digital Library
Snare by Fritz Willis (open access)

Snare by Fritz Willis

A single front and back page of lithograph prints clipped from the December edition of Esquire Magazine 1948. This page features a Fritz Willis pin-up girl "Snare" accompanied by descriptive text. On the following side is a holiday-themed page of Christmas cards with imagery of women, deer, and Santas.
Date: December 1948
Creator: Willis, Fritz
System: The UNT Digital Library