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"Library at SCPC (Signal Corps Photographic Center) for enlisted men only." From the estate of a former Army Signal Corps photographer. View full size.
I wish to categorize Shorpy's photographs by date/state/city, so, if not provided, I try to find out how pictures may be identified for that purpose. From Combat Camera I learned that the Signal Corps Library must be located in Long Island City, New York.
LIFE (March 1, 1943), Newsweek (February 22, 1943), Time (same, February 22, 1943), Harper's (the oldest, January 1942), New Yorker (February 27, 1943), and Esquire (March 1943). I apologize for the quality of some of the images I found.
That is the February 27, 1943 issue of The New Yorker, with a cover by Russian emigre Constantin Alajálov (1900-1987), who produced 98 covers for the magazine, beginning in 1926.
Feb. 22, 1943 Time magazine (Soviet General Golikov).
Feb. 22, 1943 Newsweek magazine (British General Alexander).
Feb. 27, 1943 New Yorker magazine (young woman dreaming of five military or medical service roles).
March 1, 1943 Life magazine ("Bow Ties").
March 1943 Esquire magazine (Englishman bathing in a tub in Africa).
Domestic newspapers reported the Feb. retaking of the Kasserine Pass on Feb. 26 and 27. Because the SCPC was in Long Island City (at Astoria Studios), that probably matches the date range of the edition of Stars & Stripes.
Judging by the newspaper headline, Rommel's forces having retreated from Kasserine Pass.
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