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Inktober 2024 Day 15 "Guidebook"

New York Fair or No Fair: A Guide For The Woman Vacationist by Marjorie Hillis, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1939, dust jacket illustrator, Cipe Pineles

Born in Peoria Illinois, Marjorie Hillis (1889-1971) moved to Brooklyn when she was ten and grew up a minister’s daughter. She became a staff writer for Vogue Magazine. In the 1930s Hillis began authoring books for women from the perspective of self-sufficiency and independent money management by living on your own terms. One of her greatest sales successes was Live Alone And Like It (1936). New York Fair or No Fair with the intended pun is a guide to New York written for women who would be visiting the 1939 World’s Fair.

Cipe Pineles (1908-1991) was born in Austria and came to the United States in 1921. Pineles became one of the most acclaimed illustrators and graphic designers. She worked for many magazines including, Mademoiselle, Glamour, Vogue, Seventeen and Charm. Pineles was the first woman member of the Art Directors Club and was inducted into their Hall of Fame in 1975.

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