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[Naval Air Transport Service magazine clipping]

Description: 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]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[LIFE Magazine cartoon grand prize illustration]

Description: 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
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The 1943 Varga Girl Esquire Calendar]

Description: Pinup Esquire calendar from 1943, of The Varga Girl(s) by Peruvian-American painter Alberto Vargas. The calendar begins in January and ends with December, featuring verses by Phil Stack and a "checkpayer" wager and payoff scenario on the back of each pin up girl.
Date: 1943
Creator: Vargas, Alberto
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[1940 Pin Up posters for calendar mockup]

Description: Pin Up poster calendar mockup from 1940 of The Varga Girl(s) by Peruvian-American painter Alberto Vargas. The mockup for the calendar showcases images for the corresponding month beginning in January and ending in December.
Date: 1940
Creator: Vargas, Alberto
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[The Varga Girl Calendar]

Description: Pinup calendar from 1942, of The Varga Girl(s) by Peruvian-American painter Alberto Vargas. The calendar begins in January and ends with December, featuring verses by Phil Stack and astrological signs on the back of each pin-up girl.
Date: 1942
Creator: Vargas, Alberto
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The 1954 Esquire Girl Calendar Special Deluxe Edition and Envelope]

Description: The 1954 Esquire Girl calendar and printed envelope, special deluxe edition, includes twelve months of "12 Breathtaking Esquire Beauties In Full Color". The calendar features artwork from American artist Ernest Chiriacka (1913-2010) with illustrations of themed girls and their corresponding months.
Date: 1954
Creator: Chiriacka, Ernest
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The Esquire 1948 Calendar]

Description: Esquire's 1948 pin-up calendar features monthly artwork from various artists under Esquire, Inc, and verses by Frances Geiger Adams. Months May, June, September, and December are missing.
Date: 1948
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Esquire's 1945 Varga Calendar Yearbook]

Description: Esquire's 1945 Varga calendar yearbook of The Varga Girl(s) by Peruvian-American painter Alberto Vargas. The calendar includes all months except January, September, and December. The yearbook includes pages dedicated to birthdays and anniversaries, and "good numbers" for addresses and telephone numbers. Additionally, there are comics from various artists on each month published under Esquire Inc.
Date: 1945
Creator: Vargas, Alberto
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[1940 Pin Up posters for calendar mockup]

Description: Pin Up poster calendar mockup from 1940 of The Varga Girl(s) by Peruvian-American painter Alberto Vargas. The mockup for the calendar showcases images for the corresponding month beginning in January and ending in December.
Date: 1940
Creator: Vargas, Alberto
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Two used text stencils]

Description: Two stencils cut from a dark paper like material. The first stencil bears the text "EVANS CH 289-517" and the other stencil bears the letters "CHE". The areas around the cut outs of the letters and numbers are darkened and marked from use. The first stencil was marked with a dark medium and the second a white chalk.
Date: unknown
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Clipping from a magazine featuring the air force and airplanes]

Description: 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]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Petty Girl Calendar for 1947]

Description: Petty Girl calendar and envelope from 1947 featuring "12 Gorgeous Petty Pin-ups In Beautiful Full Color" by American pin-up artist George Brown Petty. The calendar features monthly prints from January to December.
Date: 1947
Creator: Petty, George
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[1942 The Varga Girl Esquire Calendar]

Description: Pinup Esquire calendar from 1942, of The Varga Girl(s) by Peruvian-American painter Alberto Vargas. The calendar begins in January and ends with December, featuring verses by Phil Stack and a "checkpayer" wager and payoff scenario on the back of each pin up girl.
Date: 1942
Creator: Vargas, Alberto
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Esquire Magazine clipping featuring a movie ad for "Anchors Aweigh"]

Description: Esquire Magazine clipping of a single front and back leaf with commercially printed illustrations paired with descriptive text. The front of the clipping features a motion picture advertisement for MGM's musical comedy in color film "Anchors Aweigh" starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson and Gene Kelly. The leaf shows photos of the actors in costume at the base of the ad. The back of the leaf includes a continued article titled "Man the Kitchenette" along with an aside titled "On the Edge of … more
Date: September 1945
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Magazine clipping with full color bleed images]

Description: 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]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[LIFE Magazine clipping with nylon advertisement and art and culture article]

Description: LIFE Magazine front and back clipping of pages 81 and 82 of a spring published edition. The front of the leaf shows a nylon stocking advertisement for Gotham Hosiery Company and the back an art and culture article from Milwaukee. The article focus on a major donor Charles Zadok for the Layton School of Art.
Date: unknown
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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