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[1940 Pin Up posters for calendar mockup]

Description: Pin Up poster calendar mockup from 1940 of The Varga Girl(s) by Peruvian-American painter Alberto Vargas. The mockup for the calendar showcases images for the corresponding month beginning in January and ending in December.
Date: 1940
Creator: Vargas, Alberto
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[1940 Pin Up posters for calendar mockup]

Description: Pin Up poster calendar mockup from 1940 of The Varga Girl(s) by Peruvian-American painter Alberto Vargas. The mockup for the calendar showcases images for the corresponding month beginning in January and ending in December.
Date: 1940
Creator: Vargas, Alberto
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[1942 The Varga Girl Esquire Calendar]

Description: Pinup Esquire calendar from 1942, of The Varga Girl(s) by Peruvian-American painter Alberto Vargas. The calendar begins in January and ends with December, featuring verses by Phil Stack and a "checkpayer" wager and payoff scenario on the back of each pin up girl.
Date: 1942
Creator: Vargas, Alberto
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The 1943 Varga Girl Esquire Calendar]

Description: Pinup Esquire calendar from 1943, of The Varga Girl(s) by Peruvian-American painter Alberto Vargas. The calendar begins in January and ends with December, featuring verses by Phil Stack and a "checkpayer" wager and payoff scenario on the back of each pin up girl.
Date: 1943
Creator: Vargas, Alberto
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Adornment by Fritz Willis

Description: A single front and back page from the August edition of Esquire Magazine 1947. The page features theatrical and dance-themed pin-ups by Fritz Willis and Joe De, Mers followed by small paragraphs of descriptive text at the bottom of each printed illustration.
Date: August 1947
Creator: Willis, Fritz & De Mers, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Camouflage by Al Moore

Description: Page from Esquire magazine featuring illustrations of women and descriptive text. On the first page, a black-haired woman lays seductively on a leopard-skin wearing a matching top and bottom with red lipstick and nail polish. The description discusses the leopard in regards to women's fashion and behavior throughout history. On the facing page, a woman in a black riding habit and boots lays sprawled on the ground in shock holding her riding crop in her right hand.
Date: June 1947
Creator: Moore, Al & Baz, Ben-Hur
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Clipping from a magazine featuring the air force and airplanes]

Description: Magazine clipping of a single front and back leaf with full color lithograph commercially printed illustrations featuring the US Air Force and airplanes. The front illustrations shows a canary yellow "Hellcat" airplane flying framed by clouds with descriptive text that reads "Brightly-Painted Hellcat is believed a special gunnery target". The verso side shows soldiers looking over a map on a runway near a "button-nose" tagged plane.
Date: [1940..1950]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Concentration by Joe De Mers

Description: Page from Esquire magazine featuring illustrations of women and descriptive text. On the first page, no. 52, a blonde woman sits cross-legged on the floor surrounded by tea and sewing supplies. She is following a magazine to embellish a straw garden hat with flowers, which she is holding up to examine intently. On the facing page, a dialogue between a model wearing a swimsuit and a man wearing a tan suit is taking place on a photo shoot set. The two individuals are surrounded by lights, chairs,… more
Date: June 1947
Creator: De Mers, Joe & Willis, Fritz
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Crisis by Fritz Willis

Description: Page from Esquire magazine featuring illustrations of women and descriptive text. On the first page, No. 36, a curly auburn-haired woman ankle-deep in a lily pond is startled by a jumping frog. On the facing page, a tall slender woman fixes her hat in front of a vanity table with a slightly open drawer. She is admiring herself wearing undergarments, a summer bonnet, and red heels.
Date: 1947
Creator: Willis, Fritz & De Mers, Joe
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

[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

Dogs Life by Joe De Mers & Fritz Willis

Description: Page from Esquire magazine featuring illustrations of women and descriptive text. On the first page is a collaborative illustration of a woman in a yellow two-piece joyfully receiving a black Cocker Spaniel puppy. On the facing page, by Fritz Willis, an auburn haired figure model sits covered in a black coat between sessions on her posing stool drinking tea
Date: November 1947
Creator: De Mers, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The Esquire 1948 Calendar]

Description: Esquire's 1948 pin-up calendar features monthly artwork from various artists under Esquire, Inc, and verses by Frances Geiger Adams. Months May, June, September, and December are missing.
Date: 1948
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

The Esquire Girl by Al Moore "Checkermate "

Description: Page from Esquire magazine featuring illustrations of women and descriptive text. An Al Moore Esquire Girl spread on the theme of relationships between men and women as a game of checkers followed by a Kodachrome reproduction of a lone fisherman.
Date: March 1949
Creator: Moore, Al & Atreson, Ray
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Esquire Girl by Al Moore "Mis-Adventure"

Description: Page from Esquire magazine featuring illustrations of women and descriptive text. On the first page, an Al Moore Esquire girl admires her reflection after opening a new hat paired with a verse by Phil Stack. On the facing page is a black and white photo of an anonymous dark-haired model "Mademoiselle" photographed by Roger Coster.
Date: [1945..1960]
Creator: Moore, Al & Coster, Roger
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

The Esquire Girl by Al Moore "Red and Green"

Description: Page from Esquire magazine featuring illustrations of women and descriptive text. An Al Moore Esquire Girl spread followed by a reproduction of John Sharps' Solebury Meeting House. The painting, courtesy of the Milch gallery, is of a small group of east coast Quakers going to a quiet meeting during the holidays noted as "Peace on Earth".
Date: 1948
Creator: Moore, Al & Sharp, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Esquire Magazine clipping featuring a movie ad for "Anchors Aweigh"]

Description: Esquire Magazine clipping of a single front and back leaf with commercially printed illustrations paired with descriptive text. The front of the clipping features a motion picture advertisement for MGM's musical comedy in color film "Anchors Aweigh" starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson and Gene Kelly. The leaf shows photos of the actors in costume at the base of the ad. The back of the leaf includes a continued article titled "Man the Kitchenette" along with an aside titled "On the Edge of … more
Date: September 1945
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Esquire Magazine clipping featuring oil painter Philip Reisman]

Description: Esquire magazine clipping of a single front and back leaf with full color lithograph commercially printed illustrations of oil paintings by American painter Philip Reisman courtesy of the A.C. A. Gallery in New York and No. 14 Esquiregraph titled Walter Winchell. The front of the page shows images of five oil paintings each with their title, dimensions and a short description. The photocollage on the back shows a man in a sheet held by a taxidermy stork with its leg held poised over a stack of… more
Date: February 1946
Creator: Reisman, Philip
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Esquire Magazine Illustrations of Varga Cowgirl and Firefighter]

Description: A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a blonde Varga Girl cowgirl wearing a denim bodysuit with matching, boots, spurs, belt, gloves, and hat paired with the verse Pistol Packin' Mama by Phil Stack. On the following side is a reproduction print of the painting Keeper of the Faith by John Falter done especially for Esquire Magazine March 1944. The painting depicts a firefighting soldier battling a blaze in the battered hull of a ship out of which can be seen two ships fight… more
Date: March 1944
Creator: Vargas, Alberto; Stack, Phil & Falter, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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