#colliers

[unteriors]

Tent Church Road, Colliers, West Virginia.

[mylittlevintageworld]

[onefootin1941]

Cover illustration for Collier’s, 14 April 1945 issue, by Vernon Grant.

Vernon Grant was an illustrator best known for his creation of the SNAP! CRACKLE! AND POP! characters for Kellogg's and his whimsical magazine covers for "Collier's", "Ladies Home Journal", and many others. He is only 2nd to Norman Rockwell in the amount of published works.

In 1938, Life magazine ranked Grant as "America's favorite children's artist."

Grant worked with the USO during World War II, entertaining troops with sketches and fast-paced chalk talks.

Grant’s illustrations appeared in print on the covers of national magazines, advertising products, greeting cards and children’s books from the 1920s through the 1970s

https://www.vernongrant.org/about-the-artist.html

[spacenoirdetective]

C. William Randall, "Helpful Policeman" cover for "Collier's Magazine" Dec 1952

[skippulley]

Mid-Century Modern Illustration 1

[gracie-bird]

Clipping from Collier's magazine (January 4, 1957) shows Princess Grace visiting a baby-care class at the New York City chapter of the Red Cross in November 1956.

[tomoleary]

John R. Flanagan "The Trail of Fu Manchu" Collier's 5-12-34 Illustration Original Art (Crowell Publishing Co., 1934)

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[victusinveritas]

Wrestler Adrian Street has died at the age of 82.

The photograph above has been called the most important photo taken in postwar Britain (by the guy quoted above, Jeremy Deller). I might disagree a bit considering some of the other things that happened in postwar Britain (and some other things that happened in Derry and elsewhere).

Street pictured with his father, who said he would never make it as a wrestler.