Title
The Saturday Evening Post
Coverage
Philadelphia
Publisher
Curtis Publishing Company
Date
May 29, 1943
Subject
Volume 215, number 48
Description
This issue features a cover illustration of one of the most iconic magazine images published during World War II, Norman Rockwell’s “Rosie the Riveter.” With a circulation of over three million, Curtis Publishing flagship, The Saturday Evening Post had immense influence and made the title character from John Jacob Loeb and Redd Evans’ popular 1942 song into an iconic national symbol of industry and patriotism.