The Big Little Books, first published during 1932 by the Whitman Publishing Company of Racine, Wisconsin, were small, compact books designed with a captioned illustration opposite each page of text. (Wikipedia)
Month: December 2019
Did Santa Claus Find It? 1914
Christmas spirit in the trenches, World War One, from the Columbus Evening Dispatch.
Anita Page, Christmas, 1930
Escapade Magazine, 1967
Wende Wagner, The Green Hornet’s Gal Friday gift-packaged for Christmas
Joan Crawford Christmas, 1927
Joan Crawford as Santa in a publicity shot from 1927
He Knows When You Are Sleeping
Special Christmas Offers, 1910
Model & Toy Collector, Summer, 1996
MODEL & TOY COLLECTOR #35 Summer 1996, Featuring 60 Years of the Green Hornet and Kato
First US Airmail Route, 1916
Here’s Uncle Sam’s Map of First Aero Mail Route In The United States
It’s submitted to bidders for the service over the proposed route from New Bedford, Mass., to Nantucket, via Woods Hale and Oak Bluffs.
(The Day Book (Chicago, IL), February 15, 1916)
Star of Bethlehem Coming Back? 1914
By Prof. Sothnos Latillier
The Distinguished Astrologer.
THIS is the predestined year in which the Star of Bethlehem reappears in the heavens to herald the battle of Armageddon. Already in the evening skies the star, which is really a comet, is dimly discernible, and as the titanic conflict now raging reaches its climax it will be visible to all eyes. This celestial body has Recently been named by astronomers “Delevan’s Comet,” but it has always been known to astrologers as “the Star of Bethlehem.”
