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Expectation by Fritz Willis

Description: Pages from Esquire magazine featuring illustrations of women and descriptive text. On the first page, is Expectation by Fritz Willis, depicting blonde starlet daydreaming on set. On the facing page, the same actress is seen engaged in conversation with a film crew.
Date: September 1946
Creator: Willis, Fritz & De Mers, Joe
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[Depictions of Various Starlets]

Description: Page from Esquire magazine featuring illustrations of women and descriptive text. Two pages of 1/4 page illustrations featuring famous actresses and models from the 1940s and early 1950s done by various artists in their unique style. From left to right, Arleen Whelan [1916-1993], Carole Landis [1919-1948], Lubow Roudenko [note misspelling within the material: correct name:Lubov Roudenko] [1915-2020], Toni Seven [1922-1991], Jane Russel [1921-2011], Rita Hayworth [1918-1987], Betty Grable [1916-… more
Date: [1945..1960]
Creator: Utz, Thornton; Hall, Tom; Pachner, William; Fabry, Jaro; Cooper, Mario; Prohaska, Ray et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Clipping: Texas Living]

Description: Newspaper articles about current Texas issues, such as birthdays and charities.
Date: March 18, 2014
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[Clipping: In search of hope]

Description: Photocopy of a newspaper clipping about the search for a cure for AIDS.
Date: March 2013
Creator: Smith, Marcia
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[Brunette Pin-Up Single Cut Out Doll]

Description: Seated nude woman with shoulder-length light brown hair with a pale yellow wreath of flowers on her head and behind her. Single lithograph pin-up doll cut out estimated to be from the 1940s to early 1950s.
Date: [1940..1960]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Clipping: Hunn's private stock]

Description: Newspaper article about a private seller of pickles in North Texas becoming a company found in many stores.
Date: unknown
Creator: Hall, Cheryl
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Clipping: Divine Denim]

Description: Newspaper article about the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS charitable runway show.
Date: March 12, 2004
Creator: Kusner, Daniel A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Love Cries "Uncle"]

Description: A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a blonde Varga Girl flying wearing a matching gold dress and robe set paired with a two stanza verse "Love Cries "Uncle" by Phil Stack. On the following side of the spread is a reproduction offset lithograph print of men's fashion illustrations by William Pachner featuring the color star grey and descriptive text.
Date: April 1942
Creator: Vargas, Alberto
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Lovely and Lonely by Varga

Description: A spread from Esquire magazine featuring a brunette Varga Girl wearing a light blue quilted robe with a magnolia tucked in her hair.
Date: [1940..1945]
Creator: Vargas, Alberto
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

The Dali Girl

Description: A page from Esquire Magazine featuring front and back Kodachrome photography collages.
Date: [1940..1949]
Creator: Blumenfeld, Erwin & Szyk, Arthur
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Clipping: 29 Nabbed in Raid on Apartment]

Description: Photocopy of a newspaper article about the raid on a gathering of LGBT individuals and the arrest of those individuals.
Date: October 29, 1961
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Esquire Magazine Paper Dolly Varga Girl Illustration]

Description: A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a paper dolly Varga Girl wearing a shiny white one-piece body suit. The reverse of this spread is blank. This clipping is from an edition of Esquire Magazine printed in 1944.
Date: 1944
Creator: Vargas, Alberto
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Showgirl Pin-up Doll by Ben-Hur Baz]

Description: Page from Esquire magazine featuring illustrations of women and descriptive text. A single page pin-up doll of a blonde showgirl in a black and turquoise costume including gloves, bloomers, corset, and feathered train. The following page is an excerpt of text discussing the nature of jiggling.
Date: 1947
Creator: Baz, Ben-Hur
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Varga Calendar Preview Advertisement]

Description: Page from Esquire magazine featuring Varga Girl illustrations for the December issue 1944. Illustrations are previews for the upcoming 1945 Varga Girl calendar.
Date: December 1944
Creator: Vargas, Alberto & Sader
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[True Magazine Petty Girl Illustration]

Description: Page from True Magazine featuring an illustration of a Petty Girl followed by a reproductive print of 3 men and a woman on a white sailboat. Pin-ups by artist George Petty or "Petty Girls" first made their appearance in 1933 and into the 1950s set the standard for American female beauty. The hallmarks of Petty pin-ups are elongated limbs most noted in the legs, a flirtatious smile, and telephones.
Date: [1940..1960]
Creator: Petty, George
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Calendar Introduction Page]

Description: A single page front and back clipped from the Esquire Magazine Varga Girl 1944 calendar advertisement. A rectangular section has been removed from the lower right corner. On the front is the calenders introduction and advertising information found in the descriptive text. On the back are previews of the illustrations paired with descriptive verses for months July through December.
Date: December 1943
Creator: Vargas, Alberto
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[True Magazine Petty Girl Illustration]

Description: Page from True Magazine featuring an illustration of a Petty Girl followed by a reproduction of an Audubon bird print [Osprey/ Fish Hawk, plate 81]. Pin-ups by artist George Petty or "Petty Girls" first made their appearance in 1933 and into the 1950s set the standard for American female beauty. The hallmarks of Petty pin-ups are elongated limbs most noted in the legs, a flirtatious smile, and telephones.
Date: 1947
Creator: Petty, George & Audubon, John Jay
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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