The magazines’s regular features included phrases such as “the working mother is still on trial,” or “drink your way down the scale with four liquid meals a day,” 2 or “sometimes a secretary’s social life is so exhausting that her job become a mere meal ticket.” I could go on all day like this – there is easily enough material here for a grad seminar in post-Eisenhower gender roles or feminist epistemology. Or perhaps enough material for an episode of Mad Men. (more)
About Codex xcix:
Codex xcix’s an occasionally updated weblog about the history of the visual arts and graphic design. Mostly this means books and their typography and illustration, maps, periodicals, photos and posters as well as other miscellaneous ephemera. The history of visual arts is a rather wide swath to cover and the selection of materials follows the Stewartian argument of “I’ll know it when I see it.” The site is embellished wherever possible with diagrams, drawings, illustrations, maps, photographs, etc., and nearly all of the images in the posts link to a much larger image. (more)
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