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Set: 1940s
Created by
Roque Strew
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Rhapsody in Blue
(Columbia Records, 1942)
1942
Alex Steinweiss
Contributed by Stephen Coles
Staff Pick
Paul Robeson –
Songs of Free Men
album art
1942
Alex Steinweiss
Contributed by Stephen Coles
Staff Pick
These are the Mexicans
1947
unknown
Contributed by Stephen Coles
Sponsor
The 1940 Panther
, Yearbook of West High School of Salt Lake City, Utah
1940
Contributed by Stephen Coles
Herman Miller announcement: George Nelson line
1947
Irving Harper
Contributed by Stephen Coles
“Keep ’Em Flying” US Air Corps postcards
1942
Curt Teich
Contributed by Stephen Coles
Almayer’s Folly
, Penguin Paperback
1947
Contributed by Stephen Coles
The Ministry of Fear
, Penguin Paperback
1946
Contributed by Stephen Coles
Staff Pick
Mark Warnow’s Sound Off Album
1944
Alvin Lustig
Contributed by Stephen Coles
Mildred Pierce
by James M. Cain
1946
Photo(s) by Stephen Coles on Flickr.