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[Clipping: Earhart route flier set to go]

Description: Newspaper clipping discussing the plans of pilot Grace McGuire to travel over the Pacific Ocean from Lae, New Guinea to Howland Island; similar to the route which Amelia Earhart took and ended up missing.
Date: July 24, 1983
Creator: Welde, Deena
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Sleepytime Gal]

Description: A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a blonde Varga Girl paired with Sleepytime Gal by Phil Stack followed by a reproduction print of the painting "The Biggest Game Fish Ever Landed" by Melbourne Brindle done especially for Esquire Magazine in 1946 for the September edition. The painting celebrates the story of one of the pioneers of large game angling and author Zane Grey who traveled to Tahiti in the spring of 1930 to catch Tahitian striped marlin [Blue Marlin] and on M… more
Date: September 1945
Creator: Vargas, Alberto; Stack, Phil & Brindle, Melbourne
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

The Esquire Girl by Al Moore "The Bewitching Hour"

Description: Page from Esquire magazine featuring illustrations of women, descriptive text, and paintings. On the first page is a spread of an Al Moore painting of blonde masked Esquire Girl themed to Halloween. On the verso side is a painting by Fred Freeman showing the historic rescue of the sailors on the U.S Squalus submarine in 1939 off the coast of Maine.
Date: October 1950
Creator: Moore, Al & Freeman, Fred
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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