Tag Archives: 1940’s

1940: Top Women

Posted on August 5, 2017 by corvusfugit

The official title of this item in the National Archives is “Like girls from Mars are these ‘top women’ at U.S. Steel’s Gary, Indiana, Works. Their job is to clean up at regular intervals around the tops of twelve blast … Continue reading →

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1948: Poets’ Party

Posted on July 26, 2017 by corvusfugit

A party at the Gotham Book Mart in New York City to welcome poets Sir Osbert and Dame Edith Sitwell (seated, left of center) to the US for a series of readings. W. H. Auden is perched on the ladder … Continue reading →

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1944: Model City

Posted on July 22, 2017 by corvusfugit

The decorative industrial management buildings and exhibition centers in authoritarian countries are much the same as anywhere else. The huge gleaming towers that shoot up everywhere are outward signs of the ingenious planning of international concerns, toward which the unleashed … Continue reading →

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1940: Central Park

Posted on July 18, 2017 by corvusfugit

Louis Lozowick: Central Park (1940)

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