The Scotch Oxford Golf Shoe
(Vanity Fair Magazine, 1918)
The preferred golf shoe of Presidents Wilson, Harding and Coolidge -or so our crack team of post-debutante archivists like to think.
Golf History
Golf HistorySporty Golfing Pants: Pleated Knickers
Sporty Golfing Pants: Pleated Knickers
(Magazine Ad, 1922)
These pleated golf knickers anticipated the full-cut trouser craze of the thirties, however, soon many golfers (both on and off the field) would be wearing the very full-cut pleated knickers known in the day as plus-fours. Plus-fours were one of any number of men’s fashion trends which originated with the masculine fashion-muse the Edward VIII (1894 – 1972).
Living the Life
(Pageant Magazine, 1957)
This is the new suburban America… It has developed since the Second World War. It is within hollering distance of a big city but has a definite will of its own. Its people are youngish and their numbers growing. To find out what goes on in such a community, PAGEANT MAGAZINE made a study of one typical postwar suburb: Levittown, Long Island. It has 82,000 people, fairly young; the town is 12 years old and still growing fast. What happens there [each year] is typical of the new American ‘normal’:
• Average Income: $6,100.00
• Deaths: 304
• Births: 2,760
• Divorces: 101
• HS Graduates: 285
• College-Bound Graduates: 60
• Auto Accidents: 355
1915, The New York Times, UncategorizedBritish Officer’s Full Dress Caps
British Officer’s Full Dress Caps
(New York Times, 1915)
Color illustrations of six full dress British Army service caps. Pictured are the dark blue caps worn by those who held such ranks as Aide-de-Camp to the King, Equerry to the King, Staff Officer, British Army Pay Officer and Army Medical Officer.
World War One Clip Art: Otto Dix
Attached you will find assorted German Army figures by German Expressionist and World War I infantry veteran Otto Dix
(Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix 1891 – 1969). He served as a machine gunner for much of the war.
DesignA Design Crit by Frank Lloyd Wright
A Design Crit by Frank Lloyd Wright
(Rob Wagner’s Script Magazine, 1947)
When the architectural community howled in protest upon hearing that the firm of Wallace Harrison (1895 – 1981) was commissioned to design the United Nations Center in 1947, the editors of SCRIPT MAGAZINE dashed-off to ask Frank Lloyd Wright to pick up his quill and ink-up his arguments against the project.
Wright, a bitter foe of skyscrapers and cities, voiced his disapproval in the attached article. Those who are familiar with the high esteem in which Frank Lloyd Wright held himself will not be surprised that he referred to himself entirely in third person throughout this entire article!
Civil BehaviorA Humane Act at Gettysburg’s Bloody Angle
A Humane Act at Gettysburg’s Bloody Angle
(Literary Digest, 1913)
During the 1913 Battle of Gettysburg’s fiftieth anniversary commemoration, a surviving member of Picket’s Charge encountered the Federal soldier who had saved his life at the Bloody Angle; this is the moving story of their encounter.
(Due to the broken title link above, you must Click here to read the article)
1960, Coronet Magazine, Interviews: 1912 - 1960, Uncategorized
The Crew Fifteen Years Later
This is a 1960 magazine interview that served to profile eleven of the top American military celebrities to emerge from
1946, Women Pilots
The WASPs of W.W. II
The WASP program, for as such the Women Airforces Service Pilots became known, was begun in August, 1943. In addition to providing women fliers who could take over certain jobs and thereby release their brothers for front-line duty, the program was designed to see if women could serve as military pilots and, if so, to serve as a nucleus of an organization that could be rapidly expanded…The women who took part in the pilot program proved of great value to their country, flying almost every type of airplane used by the AAF, from the Thunderbolt fighter, to the C-54 transport, they flew enough miles to reach around the world 2,500 times at the Equator.
The WASPs were fortunate enough to have pioneering aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran (1906 – 1980) serve at their helm.
Trench Warfare
Night Patrol in the Trenches
Mr. Junius B. Wood, correspondent of the CHICAGO DAILY NEWS with the A.E.F. recently spent a week in the sector held by the American Army Northwest of Toul. He lived the life of a Doughboy, slept a little and saw a lot. He spent his days in and near the front line and some of his nights in No Man’s Land. Here is the second and concluding installment of his story, depicting life at the front as it actually is…
Interviews: 1912 - 1960Theda Bara: 1920s Sex Symbol
Theda Bara: 1920s Sex Symbol
(Atlanta Georgian, 1917)
An enthusiastic review of the Hollywood silent film, The Tiger Woman
1940s FashionDown With Christian Dior and His New Look!
Down With Christian Dior and His New Look!
(Rob Wagner’s Script, 1947)
This West-coast fashion critic believed that the fashions of Christian Dior stood firmly in opposition to the optimistic, Twentieth Century casual elegance of Claire McCardell (1905 – 1958) and Adrian (1903 – 1959), preferring instead to spin
the feminine figure in the unconventional manner, trying to make her look good where she ain’t. He seeks the ballet dancer illusion – natural, rounded shoulders, too weak to support a struggling world…Her waist is pinched in an exaggerated indentation, the better to emphasize her padded hips…There are butterfly sleeves, box pockets, belled jackets, and barreled skirts, suggesting something like a Gibson girl, or whatever grandmother should have worn.
Click here to read more 1940s articles about Christian Dior and his New Look.
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W.W. I Clip Art: Doughboys
Four drawings of American Doughboys that originally appeared in a 1918 Leslie’s Weekly.The drawings were made by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge (1889 – 1977).
Click here to read some statistical data about the American Doughboys of the First World War.
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W.W. I Clip Art: German Figures
Five assorted figure drawings from the wartime pages of the German magazine, Die Welt Spiegel.
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W.W. I Clip Art: Male Faces
Eight assorted drawings pulled from various magazines and equipment catalogs dating between the years 1915 through 1919.
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W.W. I Clip Art: Male Figures
Six line drawings pulled from various magazines dating between the years 1915 through 1919. More are available upon request.
Twentieth Century WritersW.B. Yeats Gripes About the Theater-Going Bourgeoisie
W.B. Yeats Gripes About the Theater-Going Bourgeoisie
(Theatre Arts, 1919)
Poet and playwright W.B. Yeats (1865 – 1939) had his say on the matter of theater-subscriber-book-of-the-month-club types who are more likely to attend performances because they feel they should, rather than attending for their own reasons of personal enjoyment:
And the worst of it is that I could not pay my players, or the seamstresses, or the owner of the building, unless I could draw to my plays those who prefer light amusement, or who have no ear for verse and literature, and fortunately they are all very polite.