Betty Grable Paint Book: Museum Object and Cultural History
Betty Grable Paint Book: Date made: 1947. publisher: Whitman Publishing, LLC. illustrator: Meixner, Hedwig Jo.
The object in the museum catalogue
The Whitman Publishing Company produced the Betty Grable Paint Book in 1947. This 48-page book features pictures and text depicting her childhood and her current life as a movie star. In her prime, Grable was the "favorite pin-up girl of all the boys in the armed forces."
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date made: 1947
- publisher: Whitman Publishing, LLC
- illustrator: Meixner, Hedwig Jo
- depicted: Grable, Betty
- maker: Whitman Publishing, LLC
- Object Name: Paint Book
- Measurements: overall: 15 in x 11 in; 38.1 cm x 27.94 cm
- place made: United States: Wisconsin, Racine
- Subject: Motion Pictures
- ID Number: 2001.3007.24
- nonaccession number: 2001.3007
- catalog number: 2001.3007.24
- Credit Line: Gift of Donald E. Grepke in memory of Carolyn Grepke
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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