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1. Look Magazine Picture Research File (Library of Congress)

   ca. 53,000 photographic prints (chiefly b&w, a few color). ca. 1,800 safety and nitrate film negatives (chiefly copy negatives). ca. 1,300 color transparencies. -- Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   A collection of chiefly photographic prints used as reference material on personalities and a variety of subjects for the publication of stories in Look Magazine. Material focuses on popular activists, entertainers, politicians, locales, major conflicts, and movements of the mid-twentieth century.

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2. Look magazine records, 1934-1970

   6,300 items. 18 containers. 7.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Biweekly, general interest popular magazine published in Des Moines, Iowa, from March 1937 to October 1971. Drafts, correspondence, notes and field notes, interoffice memos, reference materials, clippings, and other papers documenting Look's writing, editorial, and research processes.

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