Resource Type

[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
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
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Brunette Pin-Up Single Cut Out Doll] (open access)

[Brunette Pin-Up Single Cut Out Doll]

Seated nude woman with shoulder-length light brown hair with a pale yellow wreath of flowers on her head and behind her. Single lithograph pin-up doll cut out estimated to be from the 1940s to early 1950s.
Date: [1940..1960]
Creator: unknown
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
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
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Hurrell Photograph: Marjorie Woodworth] (open access)

[Hurrell Photograph: Marjorie Woodworth]

A single front and back page from Esquire magazine featuring color Kodachrome photographs of women and descriptive text. This page features American actress Marjorie Woodworth [1919-2000].
Date: [1940..1955]
Creator: Hurrell, George & Blumenfeld, Erwin
System: The UNT Digital Library
[LIFE Magazine cartoon grand prize illustration] (open access)

[LIFE Magazine cartoon grand prize illustration]

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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lovely and Lonely by Varga (open access)

Lovely and Lonely by Varga

A spread from Esquire magazine featuring a brunette Varga Girl wearing a light blue quilted robe with a magnolia tucked in her hair.
Date: [1940..1945]
Creator: Vargas, Alberto
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Magazine Color Photo of Redhead by Music Stand] (open access)

[Magazine Color Photo of Redhead by Music Stand]

A spread from an unidentified magazine featuring printed color photo reproductions of women and lithograph prints of paintings without descriptive text.
Date: [1940..1949]
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Magazine Color Photo of Woman in Gold Dress on Green Background] (open access)

[Magazine Color Photo of Woman in Gold Dress on Green Background]

A spread from an unidentified magazine featuring printed color photographs of women in fashionable clothes and reproduction lithographs of paintings, without descriptive text.
Date: [1940..1949]
Creator: Whorf, John
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Magazine Kodachromes of Models] (open access)

[Magazine Kodachromes of Models]

A page from an unidentified magazine featuring a front and back leaf of women models posed in fashionable clothes and accessories. The front features a Kodachrome collage of a woman standing by a mirror with her reflection turned to face herself wearing a slightly different dress followed by a printed color photograph of a woman with black hair in a blue evening gown posed on a striped couch.
Date: [1940..1949]
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Magazine Pin Up Doll Single Cut Out] (open access)

[Magazine Pin Up Doll Single Cut Out]

Single pin-up doll cut out from Esquire Magazine.
Date: [1940..1960]
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
[True Magazine Petty Girl Illustration] (open access)

[True Magazine Petty Girl Illustration]

Page from True Magazine featuring an illustration of a Petty Girl followed by a reproductive print of 3 men and a woman on a white sailboat. 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..1960]
Creator: Petty, George
System: The UNT Digital Library
[True Magazine Petty Girl Illustration] (open access)

[True Magazine Petty Girl Illustration]

Page from True Magazine featuring an illustration of a Petty Girl followed by a reproduction of an Audubon print of the male Wild Turkey, Meleagris gallopavo.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..1960]
Creator: Petty, George
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
System: The UNT Digital Library
[True Magazine Petty Girl Illustration] (open access)

[True Magazine Petty Girl Illustration]

Page from True magazine featuring an illustration of a Petty Girl and a painting of a winter morning scene that is a reference to the printers Currier and Ives. 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..1960]
Creator: Petty, George
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
[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Nice Neighbors] (open access)

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Nice Neighbors]

A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of two Varga Girls representing the United States (the pilgrim) and Spain (the senorita) paired with a two stanza verse "Nice Neighbors" by Phil Stack. On the following side of the spread is a reproduction offset lithograph print of various sports and recreation fashion watercolor illustrations by Robert Goodman for the May edition of 1941.
Date: May 1941
Creator: Vargas, Alberto; Stack, Phil & Goodman, Robert
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Bouquet for a Bride] (open access)

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Bouquet for a Bride]

A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a Varga Girl styled as a bride in a wedding dress, veil, and stockings throwing her shoe paired with a two stanza verse "Bouquet for a Bride" by Phil Stack. On the following side of the spread is a reproduction offset lithograph print of men's fashion illustrations by William Pachner featuring hats accompanied by descriptive text for the June edition 1943.
Date: June 1941
Creator: Vargas, Alberto; Stack, Phil & Pachner, William
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Curves are Trumps ] (open access)

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Curves are Trumps ]

A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a redhead Varga Girl flying styled to a card and gambling theme paired with a two stanza verse "Curves are Trumps" by Phil Stack. On the following side of the spread is a reproduction offset lithograph print of sketches and photographs celebrating fathers day clipped from the June edition of Esquire Magazine in 1943.
Date: June 1941
Creator: Vargas, Alberto; Stack, Phil & De Vos, Leon
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Patriotism Minus] (open access)

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Patriotism Minus]

A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a brunette Varga Girl wearing a floor-length silver dress paired with the verse Patriotism Minus by Phil Stack. On the following side of the spread is a reproduction offset lithograph print of men's fashion illustrations by William Pachner featuring shoes and socks for every occasion accompanied with labels and descriptive text.
Date: November 1941
Creator: Vargas, Alberto; Stack, Phil & Pachner, William
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: V Mail for a Solider] (open access)

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: V Mail for a Solider]

A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a blonde Varga Girl posing holding a pencil and letter paper paired with a two stanza verse "V Mail for a Solider" by Phil Stack. On the following side of the spread is a reproduction offset lithograph print of men's fashion illustrations by William Pachner accompanied by descriptive text.
Date: February 1942
Creator: Vargas, Alberto; Stack, Phil & Pachner, William
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Hurrell Photograph: Billie Seward] (open access)

[Hurrell Photograph: Billie Seward]

A front and back spread from the February edition of Esquire Magazine 1942. This spread features a color reproduction of a Hurrell photograph of 1930s actress Billie Seward [1912-1982] followed on the reverse by men's fashion illustrations by William Pachner accompanied by descriptive text.
Date: February 1942
Creator: Hurrell, George & Pachner, William
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Love Cries "Uncle"] (open access)

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Love Cries "Uncle"]

A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a blonde Varga Girl flying wearing a matching gold dress and robe set paired with a two stanza verse "Love Cries "Uncle" by Phil Stack. On the following side of the spread is a reproduction offset lithograph print of men's fashion illustrations by William Pachner featuring the color star grey and descriptive text.
Date: April 1942
Creator: Vargas, Alberto
System: The UNT Digital Library