‘Its a Wonderful Life’ – the Synopsis
Lovingly ripped from the binding of a 1947 issue of Photoplay Magazine was the attached thumbnail Its a Wonderful Life, […]
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Stockings for Movie Stars
$2,500.00 stockings, anyone? (in today’s currency, that would be $41,519.00) This is the story of Hollywood’s go-to-guy for outrageously priced,
Post-Repeal Fears
“The Eighteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution made the criminal career pay – for the first time, perhaps, in the
Spotlight on the Secret Service
“The chief responsibility of the U.S. Secret Service is to guard the life of the President… In Dallas, on November
W.W. I Clip Art: American Officers
Three commercial illustrations of American World War One officers that originally appeared in the margins of the U.S. army weekly The Stars and Stripes.
Click here if you would like to see the advertisements in which these figures originally appeared.
The British 1912 Officer Jacket
(West End Gazette, 1915)
The January, 1915, issue of The West End Gazette devoted three pages of tailoring instructions for British officer’s Khaki Service Jacket. The uniform was first issued in 1912:[P]The latest development in connection with military tailoring is the introduction of a new style of Service Dress for field wear. Its principal distinction from the styles that has superseded is the abolition of the time-honored stand collar in favor of the open step collar style as generally adopted for mufti garments.
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.
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
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.
W.W. I Clip Art: German Figures
Five assorted figure drawings from the wartime pages of the German magazine, Die Welt Spiegel.
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.