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Loved your post! However, it is true that the scan copy fails to show the bright, sharp LIFE iconic text and photos. That's what made LIFE magazine a cultural institution: not ephemeral, but historic record of life in the United States and around the world.
I could not resist the challenge. So I found an online resource where one can see and read your LIFE article on stamps from January 20, 1941. As I read the postage stamps' descriptions (the examples from the end of the Great War and from the incipient world conflict in 1941) I could not but be reminded how previous strife is usually dormant, as we are witnessing presently the horrors of war in Europe. It should not be missed.
Here's the link to LIFE magazine, January 20, 1941, pages 11, 12 and 13.
https://books.google.com/books?id=8kgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA10&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q=stamps&f=true
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Thanks for your response. I should have simply included the link to the issue but I thought the visual would be good. I've been going through the Life issues from issue 1 and am now up to 20 Jan 1941. It is really interesting to read about events that at the time may have been simply glossed over but with the benefit of looking back from the present, one can see that any number of these events were all pointing to WWII.
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I love history with that view from the times. They had no idea what they were in for!
I have a lot of soldier mail from both world wars. One from WWI describes his trip across the Atlantic in a troop transport and that he’s in training for infantry.
One from WWII describes his learning of Roosevelt’s death and wishing the war would end so he could come back home!
A letter I recently sold between two sorority sisters lamenting that it was difficult to have a dance with all the guys away!
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I was browsing through the Jan. 20, 1941 issue of Life magazine and ran across an interesting article concerning stamps reflecting the current events of WWII. It's interesting to look through the old magazines and see the events and thought processes of those who were currently living through those times. Unfortunately, when the original pages were scanned, the resolution was not the best and the text is somewhat hard to read but hopefully you get the gist of the article.
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re: Life Magazine (Jan. 20, 1941) Article Featuring Stamps
Loved your post! However, it is true that the scan copy fails to show the bright, sharp LIFE iconic text and photos. That's what made LIFE magazine a cultural institution: not ephemeral, but historic record of life in the United States and around the world.
I could not resist the challenge. So I found an online resource where one can see and read your LIFE article on stamps from January 20, 1941. As I read the postage stamps' descriptions (the examples from the end of the Great War and from the incipient world conflict in 1941) I could not but be reminded how previous strife is usually dormant, as we are witnessing presently the horrors of war in Europe. It should not be missed.
Here's the link to LIFE magazine, January 20, 1941, pages 11, 12 and 13.
https://books.google.com/books?id=8kgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA10&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q=stamps&f=true
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re: Life Magazine (Jan. 20, 1941) Article Featuring Stamps
Thanks for your response. I should have simply included the link to the issue but I thought the visual would be good. I've been going through the Life issues from issue 1 and am now up to 20 Jan 1941. It is really interesting to read about events that at the time may have been simply glossed over but with the benefit of looking back from the present, one can see that any number of these events were all pointing to WWII.
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re: Life Magazine (Jan. 20, 1941) Article Featuring Stamps
I love history with that view from the times. They had no idea what they were in for!
I have a lot of soldier mail from both world wars. One from WWI describes his trip across the Atlantic in a troop transport and that he’s in training for infantry.
One from WWII describes his learning of Roosevelt’s death and wishing the war would end so he could come back home!
A letter I recently sold between two sorority sisters lamenting that it was difficult to have a dance with all the guys away!
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