Look Magazine Glens Falls "Hometown U.S.A." photograph collection, 1943-1944.

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Look Magazine Glens Falls "Hometown U.S.A." photograph collection, 1943-1944.

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The Look Magazine Glens Falls "Hometown U.S.A." Photograph Collection contains over 5,000 photographs, providing a detailed community portrait of the Glens Falls area, showing people, streets, buildings, schools, churches, industries, restaurants, hospital, recreation, parades, servicemen, and various wartime activities. While the emphasis clearly is on Glens Falls, some photographs of Queensbury, Lake George, and other surrounding communities are also included.

6 cubic feet (over 5,000 photographs)

New York State Historical Documents Inventory

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SNAC Resource ID: 6866976

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Look Magazine published a series of six articles in 1944, entitled "Hometown U.S.A.", designed to present Glens Falls as a patriotic model of the home front during World War II, particularly looking forward to America's transition from war to peace. The specific dates of the articles were April 4 and 18, June 27, September 5 and 19, and November 28, 1944. Look anticipated that these articles would provide other communities with ideas to stimulate their own postwar planning. The author of the ser...

Truxell, Betty.

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Rhodenbaugh, Harold, 1901-1951

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Metivier, Don A.

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Koether, George F.

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Cole, Bruce, 1951-

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