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[LIFE Magazine cartoon grand prize illustration]

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

Item Type: Clipping

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[True Magazine Petty Girl Illustration]

A spread page from True magazine featuring an illustration of a blonde Petty Girl paired with the text "Don't tell me that's a bobby too!" followed by the illustration "A sight-seers map of Manhattan" by Paul Savitt. Savitt's map is an illustrative cartoon numbered and labeled with locations, people, streets, and buildings with descriptive text, as the 77 essential things to do in Manhattan. Pin-ups by artist George Petty or "Petty Girls" first made their appearance in 1933 and into the 1950s… more

Date: 1946

Creator: Petty, George & Savitt, Paul