Google Images now contains Life Magazine's vast photo archive. If you're old enough
to remember the heyday of home delivered magazines, you will most certainly remember
that glossy, oversized, highly visual catalog of each week's events. It was spectacular.
Buried in that archive are a nice set of knitting-related images, mostly from the
1930s and 1940s. Most of them are from three issues, a 1939 one on knitting for the
British army, a 1941 how-to-knit issue, and a 1952 home/baby knitting article. The
accompanying articles aren't in this archive, but the how-to and finished object pictures
that formed the core are. There is also a smattering ...
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