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Title
•The girl who gave him the cold shoulder / John Held, Jr.
Summary
•Cover of Life magazine showing sunburned woman pulling down shoulder strap of her beach blouse as man smiles.
Names
•Held, John, Jr., 1889-1958, artist
Created / Published
•[ca. 1923]
Headings
•- Relations between the sexes
•- Sunburns
Notes
•Caption label from exhibit "Monstrous Craws...": The jaunty spirit of the Jazz Age came to life in the work of influential illustrator John Held, Jr. (1889-1958). During the 1920s, his colorful portrayals of flippant "flapper" girls and jaunty "Joe College" boys appeared in such magazines as Judge, The New Yorker, College Humor, Harper's Bazaar. His designs, such as this magazine cover depicting a coolly coquettish girl and a gawky, grinning guy, helped delineate a carefree, confident image of American society. Held also wrote and illustrated numerous books, designed costumes and sets for musical reviews, and created comic strips including Oh! Margy (later Merely Margy), Joe Prep, and Rah Rah Rosalie. Examples of his graphic work form part of the Library's Cabinet of American Illustration, a national collection of original drawings by generations of leading artists, illustrators, and cartoonists.
•- Purchase (Swann Fund); Mrs. John Held, Jr.; (DLC/PP-1985:269).
•- Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).
•- Exhibit loan 4168-L.
•- Exhibited: "Monstrous Craws and Character Flaws: Masterpieces of Cartoon Caricature," Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., February 25-July 1998.
•- Exhibited: American beauties: drawings from the golden age of illustration, Swann Gallery, Library of Congress, 2002.
•- BAR updated record 1989-1994.
Call Number/Physical Location
•CAI - Held, no. 13 (B size) [P&P]
Source Collection
•Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress)
LCCN Permalink
•https://lccn.loc.gov/2010718747
This 1921 ad reflects an era when Williams was a major player in the shaving industry. Williams' Luxury Shaving Cream was part of the J.B. Williams Company, a well-known manufacturer of men's toiletries dating back to the 19th century. The company originally produced Williams' Genuine Yankee Soap, one of the first shaving soaps designed for use in a mug. Over time, Williams expanded its product line to include various shaving creams and soaps, including the Luxury variant, which was essentially the same as regular Williams but with a rose scent.
The production of Williams shaving products continued for many decades, and were available in different markets, including France and Morocco. But the brand underwent multiple reformulations and ownership changes. Eventually, the company was acquired by Combe Inc., and the formulation of Williams shaving products changed significantly. They were discontinued in recent years, and vintage versions are now sought after by collectors.
[Sources: BadgerandBlade.com, and TheShaveDen.com]
Paperback. Rare! I was not able to locate another copy. 1062 pages. Though there is no publisher's date inside the book, it was published in 1920. There is an inscription inside the front cover on the first page dated 1926. Two publishers listed. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd. New York_Charles Scribner's Sons. This copy is printed in Great Britain. The pages contain some browning, indicative of a 92 year old book. The pages are almost completely separated from the spine between pages 30 and 31. There is some tearing of the front and back covers and both contain an emblem with scrolling ribbon which the owner wrote her name in, in pencil. The paper cover over the spine is missing. Considering its age, this book is in remarkable condition. All pages are intact. The book contains: Contents: Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, King Lear, Othello, the Moor of Venice, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline, Pericles.
...in the arid Bechuanaland section of lower Africa, in the border area between Botswana & South Africa.
Photo: Nat Farbman
Life magazines photographs covering the arrival of US troops in Northern Ireland during 1942, were all taken by David E. Scherman, and Getty Images currently hold over 3,000 of his photographs in their archives. In his portrait here, the camera Scherman holds is a Contax II made by Zeiss. Ironic perhaps that it originated in Germany, and was favoured among press photographers covering the Allied aspect of the war.
Brief Biography
David Edward Scherman was born in Manhattan, one of two sons of William S. and Celia Scherman. His father, a businessman, moved the family to New Rochelle, N.Y. where David attended public high school and graduated in 1936 from Dartmouth College.
His career as a photojournalist began when he bought a Leica camera and took a series of pictures of Manhattan which he , showed to Life Magazine's editors, and was hired as a copy boy. The staff of that era also included notable photographers like Alfred Eisensdtadt; Margaret Bourke-White; and Gordon Parks.
During WW2 he first achieved prominence after surviving the the sinking of an ocean liner. In a manuscript he was writing before his death, he recalled the events of April 17, 1941, when he and 201 others were heading toward Cape Town on the Egyptian liner Zamzam. He said one passenger on deck late at night saw ''flashing lights winking from a dark hulk,'' then heard two ear-shattering explosions.'' Subsequently the passengers were taken aboard the German vessel, and on to Portugal. Scherman smuggled out exposed negatives of the incident stuffed in toothpaste tubes, and successfully passed inspection by German officers, being released two weeks after the sinking. After Life printed the photos, British naval units that had been searching for the surface raider with the capability to fire torpedoes used one of the pictures to identify the vessel leading to its eventual destruction.
As a photographer on assignment during WW2, he covered the D-Day invasion of Europe, the initial battles in Normandy and the liberation of Paris before being shot down in an observation plane over Germany. He was also one of the first photographers to enter Munich, where he photographed Lee Miller (with whom he'd formed a strong working relationship) in Hitlers bath.
During his career at Life, Scherman became the only photographer to hold the position of editor at the magazine, eventually became senior editor in charge of movie, book and television reviews. At the time of the magazines demise as a weekly publication in 1972, he edited and helped write the text for the best-selling book, ''The Best of Life.'' He also contributed to books including ''First of the Many'' and ''Literary America.''
During his visits to Northern Ireland, Scherman took over 400 photographs, an unparalleled body of work by any American photojournalist covering the activities of United States forces there. He died on 5th May 1997 at Stony Point, New York aged 81.
In 2023 actor Andy Samberg played the role of Scherman in the film Lee. The period drama told story of photographer Lee Miller and stared Kate Winslet in the lead role.
Image source
The LIFE Picture Collection
Photographer: David E. Scherman
Year: 1942
via: LIFE photo archive hosted by Google
Over a thousand Chicagoans, from all walks of life and all parts of the city, came together at Millennium Park to perform "Crowd Out" by Davind Lang.
Although a bit chaotic in the beginning, once the leaders of each of the small groups that formed the whole got things in sync, it became a beautiful performance and a moving experience.
I came upon this event purely by accident and it took me a while to figure out what was going on.
Once surrounded by all these people, I was pretty much stuck, so you see some of the same faces over and over again.
A package of Stamps from the Celebrate the Century series put out in 1998 by USPS in anticipation of the turn of the century.
For the first eight sheets (1900s to 1970s) of the fifteen stamps, one stamp of each sheet was printed using the intaglio process [1], while the remaining fourteen were offset printed along with the rest of the sheet.
1930s
Title: Depression, Dust Bowl, and a New Deal.
Date of issue: 9 October 1998.
Denomination: 32¢
No of stamps in sheet: 15
The stamps:
1st row: Franklin D. Roosevelt; Empire State Building; Life Magazine; Eleanor Roosevelt; New Deal Program
2nd row: Superman; Household Conviniences; movie: Snow White; novel: Gone with the Wind; Jesse Owens
3rd row: 20th Century Limited; Golden Gate Bridge; Florence Owens Thompson
4th row: Bobby Jones; Monopoly
Background image: A farmer and two sons flee a dust storm in Cimarron County, Oklahoma in April 1936.
Intaglio stamp: Empire State Building.
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Sheikh Salman Bin Hamad Al Khalifa ruler of Bahrain (r. 1942-1961) with the Bahrain government's adviser, Sir Charles D. Belgrave
(1926-1957) aboard a launch on their way to the home of Max Thornburg Bapco's (Bahrain oil company) American manager on the island of Umm as Sabaan circa 1952.
The largest commercially available cathode ray tube (CRT) television screens reached sizes of 45 inches. However, Mitsubishi experimented with even larger CRT models, producing a few 61-inch TVs, but these were not widely sold due to technological instability and safety concerns. CRT technology had limitations in size due to the bulkiness and weight of the picture tubes required.
CRT televisions were significantly heavier than modern LCD screens for the same screen size. For example, a 32-inch CRT TV could weigh around 150-200 pounds, while a 32-inch LCD screen typically weighs 20-30 pounds. This means the weight-to-size ratio for CRTs was much higher, making them bulkier and harder to handle. The difference arises from the technology: CRTs required large, heavy glass tubes and electron guns, while LCDs use lightweight panels and backlighting systems.
The leap in resolution is also remarkable. Commercial CRT monitors achieved resolutions as high as 2560x1920. In contrast, modern LCD monitors have reached resolutions of 7680x4320 (8K). These displays offer incredible clarity and are widely used for professional tasks like video editing and graphic design. It’s a testament to how far display technology has advanced.
[Source: Bing Copilot]