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Items tagged "1938":

  1. the three midshipmen who places highest in competitive examinations, receive another award after getting their diplomas, Annapolis, Maryland, June 3, 1938

    left to right - Jack Obermeyer, gets a kiss from Mary M Scott, Honor Man #2, Russell H Wallace, gets his from Harriet Engle, and Honor Man #3 Emery A Grantham, gets a kiss from Christine Gawne

  2. William P Welsh cover art for the May 1938 issue of Woman’s Home Companion

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  3. The Whirlpool In Steeplechase Park [Coney Island] - Exhibitionism, Risibility, And Sex by Robert Riggs for the 1938 Fortune Magazine article ‘To Heaven by Subway’

  4. California Fig Ball, April 27, 1938

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  5. Cecilia Parker (April 26, 1914 – July 25, 1993)

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  6. hats off to Simone Simon (April 23, 1910 – February 22, 2005)

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  7. Hollywood, 1937-1938, by the great Thomas Hart Benton (April 15, 1889 – January 19, 1975)

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  8. Jessie Matthews & Michael Redgrave sit low in 1938’s Climbing High

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  9. Mrs Edness Wilkens, Secretary to Nellie Tayloe Ross, Director of the Mint, for the last four years has been collecting coins as a hobby, thru gifts, trades, and buys, she has a collection of over 400 coins ramping from half pennies to the old silver cartwheels, she is shown inspecting a half-dime , one of the first coins struck from the Philadelphia Mint in 1792, and Mint tradition has it that the silver it contains is from the tableware of Martha Washington, she at that time lived two doors down from the Mint, and gave part of her silverware for the first coins, Washington, DC, April 11, 1938

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  10. take pause paws and look at this!

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    Birthday party for a doggy named Sammy in Los Angeles, CA - 1938

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  11. National Children’s Frolic, an NBC Party, March 19, 1938

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  12. Life Magazine cover, March 14, 1938, of singer Jane Froman sitting and knitting among empty seats at a radio rehearsal in NBC’s Studio 8-H, the world’s largest, awaiting her turn to perform. photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt

    In 1950, Studio 8-H was converted into a television studio, and since 1975 it has been the home of NBC’s live comedy program Saturday Night Live

  13. Carol & Barbara with father, Walter Johnson, March 13th, 1938

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  14. Clara Rockmore (March 9, 1911 – May 10, 1998) was a virtuoso performer of the theremin.  watch/listen

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  15. Margot Frank was born on this day

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    Anne and Margot Frank, The Netherlands. July 1938
    ANNE FRANK: The Leica Photographs of Otto Frank

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