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The May 30, 1955 issue of LIFE featured a series of Playing Cards on its cover as part of a series titled “The Look of Liberty in Craftmanship”. I’ve seen the issue before, but for the first time tonight I stopped to take a closer look at the cards. After noticing George Washington I [...]
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I’ve just finished adding the contents of 144 different issues of Look Magazine ranging between 1937 and 1963 to the magawiki. Up next will be the Atlantic Monthly, for which I’ve already established the category page and created the first listing.
Here’s the main page for Look Magazine in the magawiki
And here’s the main [...]
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The June 1958 issue (I about 99% sure that this refers to Esquire, the entry was imcomplete in my archives though) featured an article called “The Summer Job I Had as a Boy” that was compiled by Sanford Socolow. I assume most of these are true. There were 21 “Famous Men” who responded, and [...]
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Part I of Susan M. Kelly’s Great Literary Detective Series has been sent out to Newsletter Subscribers and has now been posted to the site. This first piece takes a look at Margaret Rutherford with a focus on the Miss Marple series of movies from the 1960’s. Here is the beginning of [...]
1926 Gallaher “Cinema Stars” Tobacco Cards issued by Gallaher Ltd. out of Belfast & London. 100 card set. Measures 1-1/2″ x 2-1/2″.
1948 Dinkie Grips card from Series 3 covering MGM films. Full cards with unpunctured “grips” area at bottom measure approximately 2-1/8″ X 4-1/4″. Issued out of Birmingham, England by Dinkie Products with ad on back for Dinkie Grips as well as other Dinkie Products (Dinkie Curlers and Wavesetters).
1939 Gallaher “My Favourite Part” Tobacco Cards issued out of London, measuring approximately 1-1/2″ X 2-1/2″.
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