[PW] Looking for item in circa 1952 issue of AMERICAN GIRL magazine

[S M Colowick]

Was she an adult when the poem was published? As I recall from the
1960s, the magazine had a couple of pages each month devoted to
readers' poetry and drawings. The section may have been called "By
You" (unless I'm confusing it with another girly magazine from that
era). If such a section existed in 1952, and if the patron's wife was
under 18 at the time, that could be where the poem appeared.

smc

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> Subject: [PW] Looking for item in circa 1952 issue of AMERICAN GIRL magazine
>
>
> A retired librarian here is trying to find a copy of a poem published
> by his late wife in AMERICAN GIRL (the Girl Scouts of America magazine
> of that name) around 1952.  The byline would have been "Susan Hunter" --
> the title of the poem is unknown.
>
> The Fictionmags Index online has indexed some 1950s issues of the
> magazine, but nothing around that year (and nothing listing a
> possible Susan Hunter).  We have only a few 1930s issues, and no
> other local library has any.
>
> WorldCat/OCLC  record 1579654 lists around a hundred libraries holding
> some issues, but most do not specify holdings and those that do
> mostly don't have 1951/1953.  Those that appear to have include
>
> Long Beach Public (CA)
> Peoria Public (IL)
> Wayne State University (MI)
> Houston Public Library (TX)
> University of North Texas (TX)
> Virginia Tech University (VA)
>
> and supposedly:
> Rhinelander District Library (WI) -- but we've had a report from
> Rhinelander that they disposed of their run.
>
> Gregoy's UNION LIST OF SERIALS (last edition 1965) is too early
> to be very helpful in expanding the options.
>
> If anyone on the list has access to a library that holds the
> volumes and is willing to check, it would be most appreciated...
>
>
> Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu