Friday, May 28, 2021

Photography: World War II Women at Work


















Lora Chan, Sarah Hardiway and Dorothy Ross meet Dr. Mary 
McLeod Bethune, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Chicago 
Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly, and Mrs. Mary Stuart Anderson. 
Photograph appeared in the Chicago Defender, April 1943, 
and the Evansville Argus, April 9, 1943. 

Further Reading
National First Ladies’ Library, Eleanor Roosevelt
National WWII Museum, Mary McLeod Bethune 


Friday, May 21, 2021

Comics: Mei Ling, Girl Commando

#23, October 1942
Girl Commandoes debut



























#24, December 1942
Glorious History of Korea

#25, February 1943
Mei Ling absent

#26, April 1943
Attack on the Nazis in Norway

#27, July 1943
The Battle for Burma

#28, September 1943
The Guerillas of Czechoslovakia

#29, November 1943
Bomber in the Straw

#30, January 1944
The Men Who Wear Veils

#31, March 1944
The Maharajah’s Major-Domo

#32, May 1944
Treachery in Tibet

#33, July 1944
The Devil’s Sister

#34, September 1944
The Greeks Say: Fight!

#35, November 1944
The Strange Fate of Madam Intrigue

#36, March 1945
Murder for Matadors

#37, May 1945
“Murder and the Masquerade of Mei Ling”





























#39, September 1945
A Cannibal’s Mix-Up!

#40, November 1945
Forgotten Land

#41, January 1946
Treachery at the Top of the World

#42, March 1946
“Chins Up, China”
The Girl Commandoes last appearance










 

















(Next post on Friday: World War II Women at Work)

Friday, May 7, 2021

Yun Gee at Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, May 1968







 















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