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Paris Furlough (The Stars and Stripes, 1918)
1918, Stars and Stripes Archive, The Stars and Stripes

Paris Furlough
(The Stars and Stripes, 1918)

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A cartoon by C. LeRoy Baldridge (1889 – 1977) which depicted the streets of Paris in a way that only the A.E.F. could have witnessed it. A Yank-heavy Place de l’Opera is overwhelmed by sight-seeing Doughboys (note the Y.M.C.A. patch on the tour guide) and loitering officers lounging about over-priced cafes. In the foreground stands a bewildered Doughboy, dumb-struck by the passing gaze of an appreciative Parisienne while a few steps away a four-gold-chevroned private gets reamed for failing to salute the single-chevron looey. The stage is shared by bickering cabees, melancholy widows, wandering sailors, unforgiving MPs and a hard-charging, over-weight uniformed woman.

Click here to read about W.W. I art.

Click here to read the observations of U.S. Army lieutenant Louis L’Amour concerning 1946 Paris.

Ford's Theater Layout (Harper's Magazine, 1865)
1865, Abraham Lincoln, Harper's Magazine

Ford’s Theater Layout
(Harper’s Magazine, 1865)

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Attached is a schematic drawing depicting the theater box occupied by the President and Mrs. Lincoln the night of his assassination.


Featured in the image is the dark hallway leading to the President’s Box, the footlights and the stage by which Booth was able to make good his escape.


Click here to read about a dream that President Lincoln had, a dream that anticipated his violent death.

1943, Click Magazine, Hollywood

Hollywood Fights Its Slowdown
(Click Magazine, 1943)

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Hollywood’s manpower problems have multiplied, as in any large industry, since the U.S. entered the war. The draft, war plants, and the Government need for technicians depleted studio staffs all along the line, from producers to prop boys. The majority of Hollywood stars have devoted an untold number of hours to Army camp tours, war work, canteens; they have raised funds for war relief and war bonds. Robert Montgomery (pictured in uniform) is only one of many stars who have entered the armed services. Now he’s a lieutenant in the Navy in charge of a torpedo boat squadron….With the reduction in Hollywood’s talent ranks and the new ruling for a $25,000-net-income ceiling, movie companies face a crises in production.


Click here to read a about a particularly persuasive and
highly effective W.W. II training film…

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The Problem with Loyalty Oaths ('48 Magazine, 1948)
1948, 48 Magazine, The Cold War

The Problem with Loyalty Oaths
(’48 Magazine, 1948)

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On the twenty-first of March, 1947, President Harry Truman signed into law Executive Order 9835 which was intended to remove communists and their assorted apologists from working in the Federal Government.


Unfortunately the President hadn’t issued a working definition as to what was loyal and what was disloyal and the results of the decree were predictable. The attached editorial was penned by a seasoned Washington journalist who had collected an agglomeration of anecdotal evidence during the first year of its enforcement in order to illustrate the inherent difficulties created as a result of the order. He pointed out that Truman’s order simply granted carte blanche to the F.B.I., called into question the rights of government workers and created a Loyalty Review Board that was cumbersome and bureaucratic.

The Coronation Jewels (Gentry Magazine, 1953)
1953, Elizabeth II Articles, Gentry Magazine

The Coronation Jewels
(Gentry Magazine, 1953)

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The attached photograph of Queen Elizabeth in her Coronation attire is accompanied by a few select words concerning the Koh-I-Nor diamond and a few other pretty baubles worn on the occasion of her 1953 coronation:

Elizabeth II wearing the diamond-and-pearl circlet of Queen Victoria. The design incorporates the Tudor rose, Scotch thistle, and Irish shamrock. The diamond necklace was a wedding gift from the Nizam of Hyderabad.

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The Psycho-Sexual Struggle within Amedeo Modigliani (Gentry Magazine, 1953)
1953, Gentry Magazine, Modigliani Articles

The Psycho-Sexual Struggle within Amedeo Modigliani
(Gentry Magazine, 1953)

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Modigliani’s art reflects the psychological secret of his personality as a man, which in turn determines, the characteristics of his art. This longing for intellectual and spiritual self-discipline was constantly struggling with the demands of his overflowing sensual nature; his dreams of physical and sexual vigor were at odds with the failings of his body, his ailments, and his psycho-sexual infantilism; his desire for glory rebelled against the frustrations and poverty of reality.

Linen and Cotton and the Summer of 1933 (Delineator Magazine, 1933)
1930s Fashion, 1933, The Delineator Magazine

Linen and Cotton and the Summer of 1933
(Delineator Magazine, 1933)

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Attached is printable fashion editorial by a lifer in the world of 20th Century American fashion, Marian Corey who stood firm on her belief that the Summer of ’33 would stand out as the first season in which the swankiest threads in fashion’s offering would be linen and cotton rather than silk:

Cotton and linen have gone chic on us. Yes we know that you’ve heard this before. Every year for the last three, stylists have become very sentimental, along about March first, on this subject and each year practically everyone has gone right on wearing silk and more silk, just the same. This time, however, things will be different; this is the summer to believe the stylists.


The article is illustrated by six photographs picturing various assorted well-fed loafers of the Palm Beach set.




Learn about the color trends in men’s 1930 suits…

1945, Foreign Opinions About America, Yank Magazine

Americans Observed…(Yank Magazine, 1945)

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While in the process of drawing up the charter for the United Nations, several foreign dignitaries took time out to look around at the citizens of San Francisco and share their candid observations with the editors of YANK MAGAZINE as to what an American is.


During the summer of 1938 the Nazis allowed one of their photo journalists out of the Fatherland to wander the highways and byways of the United States. This is what he saw…

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How the United Nations Works (Yank Magazine, 1945)
1945, Miscellaneous, Yank Magazine

How the United Nations Works
(Yank Magazine, 1945)

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Here is an instructional cartoon for students illustrating how the United Nations was intended to function during a crises.

The cartoonist clearly indicated the step-by-step protocol that was designed to eradicate world wars with a diplomatic process beginning jointly in both the U.N. General Assembly as well as the U.N. Security Council, proceeding on to three other possible U.N. committees (such as the Trusteeship Council, the Military Staff Committee or the International Courts) before the general body would be able to deploy any international force on it’s behalf.

1944 Army Statistcs (Yank Magazine, 1944)
1944, World War Two, Yank Magazine

1944 Army Statistcs
(Yank Magazine, 1944)

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A printable list of figures regarding U.S. Army and Navy strength as tabulated for the year 1944:

The latest figures, released last week, show that the total strength of the armed forces now comes to about 11,417,000. The House Military Affairs Committee, to which Selective Service gave this information, released it to the public without comment, but several committee members were reported to have said privately that it confirmed their suspicions that some 2,000,000 more men have been inducted than necessary.


Click here to read another article about U.S. casualties up to the year 1944.

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Scenario Writers and Plagiarism (Motion Picture Magazine, 1916)
1916, Motion Picture Magazine, Silent Movie History

Scenario Writers and Plagiarism
(Motion Picture Magazine, 1916)

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The attached is one from a series of articles that appeared in MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE penned by a Hollywood insider during the high-fashion days of silent film. The reader will be alarmed to read that even as early as 1916, plot-stealing and other forms of Hollywood plagiarism were in full swing.


A few weeks earlier, a California Representative had introduced an anti-plagiarism bill to Congress.


Click here to read about the Hollywood plagiarism game of 1935.

The Battle of Kenesaw and the Goodness of Colonel Martin (Confederate Veteran, 1922)
1922, Civil Behavior, Confederate Veteran Magazine

The Battle of Kenesaw and the Goodness of Colonel Martin
(Confederate Veteran, 1922)

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Here is a segment from a longer article found on this site that recalled the history of boys who had enlisted in the Confederate cause – this short paragraph tells the story of a Rebel colonel, W.H. Martin of the 1st Arkansas Regiment, who called out to his opposite number in the Federal ranks during a lull in the fighting for Kenesaw Mountain and allowed for a truce so that the immobilized wounded of the Northern infantry would be rescued from a fire that was spreading in no-mans-land.

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