The Fifties Book

The Fifties Book

Popular Culture, Movies, Film, Music, The Fifties, American History

A collections of images from The Fifties Book ranging from focused passages on Little Richard, Buddy Knox, Sindey Portier, Gene Autry, and Bridgette Bardot. It also includes news articles documenting hope for a polio vaccine and Queen Elizabeth II's coronation. The book is a great historical artifact detailing pop-culture history, it gives a great sense for what America and the world were like in the fifties.

ID: A colorful book with diagonal strips of color, with strips of orange, green, teal, maroon, pink, and orange in that order from top to bottom. There is black text covering the book with names of prominent figures from the 1950s, and in the middle in bold white text is "The Fifties Book" with the author, "Jay Berman" and the price, "$3.95" written in smaller white text.

Berman, Jay; Berkley Publishing

From the collection of Lydia E. Ferguson

January 1974

Jayun Tang

This material is subject to copyright law and is made available for private study, scholarship, and research purposes only.

Credits for Cover and Movie sections:
Author: LIFE Correspondent, David Zeitlin
Picture/Image credit: Sanford H. Roth From R.G. [Rapho-Guillumette]

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English

Printed Material, Book

1950-1959

Book