Americana: America in the 1940's

"Girls' town" Collier's 1942 "The Strange Bright Land" Collier's 1943 "Old Man Mose" Collier's 1943 "Burlesque is Dead" Collier's 1943 "Week End in New York" Collier's 1943 "Gift to the girls" Collier's 1943 "Sunday's Angels" Collier's 1943 "Great Dane" Collier's 1943 "Pay for Soldier's Families" 1943 "Marriage in a Hurry" Collier's 1943 "Invasion Gun" Collier's 1943 "It's Only the Beginning" Collier's 1943 "Fitting All Figures" Collier's 1943 "Bazooka's Home Town" Collier's 1944 "Star Merchants" Collier's 1944 "Cave-in" Collier's 1944 "No Orchestral Din" Collier's 1944 "Everybody's Dancing" Collier's 1944 "Swamp Angels" Collier's 1944 "Smoky Mountain Boy" Collier's 1944 "Art for Profit's sake" Collier's 1944 "Cracker-barrel Railroaders" Collier's 1945 "Panther Girl" Collier's 1945 "Ole Miss' Strikes it Rich" Collier's 1945 "Sullivans of Sullivan's Hollow" Collier's 1945 "Readin', Writin' and no Strikin' " Collier's & Reader's Digest 1945 "Self-made Starlet" Collier's 1945 "Fool School" Collier's 1945 "Million-dollar Sharecropper" Coller's 1946 "There's Money in the River, Collier's 1946 "Gertie Buries the Torch" Collier's 1946 "Queen of the Quickies" Collier's 1946 "Bilbo" Collier's 1946 "V.D. for sale" Collier's 1946 "Greenwich Village - Tourist Trap" Collier's 1947 "Greenwich Village - Tourist Trap Part II" Collier's 1947 "Revolution in Mississippi" Coronet 1949 "Queen Barbara of the Silver Blades" Coronet 1950

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