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men and women are sitting at the bar in an old time restaurant with menus hanging on the wall

In 1940 LIFE magazine had a photographic essay about a working girl in a big city based-on the “White Collar Girl” of the Christopher Morley's best-selling novel Kitty Foyle which was adapted into a film starring Ginger Rogers. The photographs were taken by photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt featuring Carol Lorell, a Ginger Rogers look-alike whose life happened to mirror Kitty Foyle's: “Like Kitty, she came from Philadelphia, ran away from home, first lived in a lonely female hotel.” Lorell's…

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an old black and white photo of people in a diner

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the founding of Evansville, we’re devoting the back page of Evansville Living – the Final Detail – to historic photographs. Generations of Evansville children grew up celebrating birthdays with fluffy cakes from Woolworth’s bakery department, shown in this 1957 photo from Donahue. A 1990 fire claimed the Woolworth’s building.

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