{"id":6625,"date":"2025-10-23T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/?p=6625"},"modified":"2025-10-21T14:42:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:42:24","slug":"hey-thats-not-margaret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2025\/10\/23\/hey-thats-not-margaret\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, That\u2019s Not Margaret"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/a>It’s hard to correct something once it’s out there on the internet. Just look at the confusion over the Amazing Stories<\/em> (August 1928) cover<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s another assumption that keeps getting passed around that needs correcting. The woman reading the March 1947 number of Weird Tales<\/em> in the photo at right is not pulp artist Margaret Brundage<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This photo (or another one taken at a slightly different angle) regularly appears in social media posts and on websites with Brundage\u2019s name attached, and it\u2019s easy to see why. The woman has a passing resemblance to Brundage, and to add to the confusion, she’s reading Weird Tales<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I remembered reading somewhere that the photo had first appeared in Life<\/em> magazine. But it took some digging to find which issue.<\/p>\n

\"Margaret<\/a>
Margaret Brundage<\/figcaption><\/figure>After paging through several months of the weekly magazine, I found \u201cLife<\/em> Tours the Nightclubs at Miami Beach\u201d (March 3, 1947). The feature includes a brief introduction and 11 photos of chorus girls and celebrities enjoying Miami Beach nightlife and daytime leisure spots.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the Weird Tales<\/em> photo didn\u2019t make the final layout, nor does it appear that the woman shows up in any of the published images.<\/p>\n

But the photo is among<\/a> a larger group from the same shoot included in the Life Photo Collection<\/a> at Google Arts & Culture<\/a>. The pictures were taken in January 1947 by Life<\/em> magazine photojournalist Allan Grant<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a shame we don\u2019t know the woman\u2019s name. But one thing\u2019s certain: She isn\u2019t Margaret Brundage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s hard to correct something once it’s out there on the internet. Just look at the confusion over the Amazing Stories (August 1928) cover. There\u2019s another assumption that keeps getting passed around that needs correcting. The woman reading the March 1947 number of Weird Tales in the photo at right is not pulp artist Margaret […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New at Yellowed Perils: Hey, That\u2019s Not Margaret Brundage!","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[9,40,12],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-6625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","category-pulp-history","category-pulpsters"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/files\/2025\/10\/showgirl-reads-weird-tales-featured.jpg?fit=1500%2C1000&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2qgXO-1IR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6625"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6647,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625\/revisions\/6647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6625"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=6625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}