The collection presented here demonstrates how some of our past is saved. It also shows how seemingly ordinary magazine covers take on greater meaning when examined as part of a larger story.

Many of the covers were collected in the summer of 1942 by Marguerite Jacquette Storm (1892–1976), who wrote to friends across the country asking for their flag magazines. Eventually she accumulated more than 150 publications. After removing the cover, Storm donated the rest of each magazine to wartime paper drives. Peter Gwillim Kreitler, who had been collecting magazines from the July 1942 campaign for more than ten years, acquired Storm’s covers in 1999.