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Researching my family history, I came across a cartoon in the
Syracuse [NY]
Post-Standard that seemed more stylish and whimsical than the run of syndicated strips: ‘
Geraldine’. This turns out to be by the illustrator Elisabeth Brozowska, and here, thanks to Google and Flickr, is an example of her work.
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This led me on to other
Flickr sets with post-war illustrations, and I found first these orchestral illustrations by Jan Balet (1951)
![What Makes an Orchestra by Eric Sturdevant.](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_sofpiCXwCsMCJY720IQ0443KpV947f7MUg8om9_aXznFP9LYb3963hAkZO6qLToLmsyAMRGGs-qdF0AvUaT1RJLNfxp-lJ4uKohoTg3vGv0vet5J5hUbXAU1tt-47oa-4=s0-d)
and this
dictionary by Richard Scarry dated 1949.