The Reconversion of Otto Soglow

The theme of the 1946 Dutch Treat Club yearbook was Reconversion or the Dutch Treat Club Gets Back to Normal: The Forty-First Anniversary of the Dutch Treat Club. The yearbook had section headings illustrated by the indefatigable Otto Soglow, each naughtily illustrating a different aspect of the postwar recovery or reconversion as it was somewhat technically termed. Stephen Kroninger has supplied Attempted Bloggery with the photos.

We begin with The Reconversion of Belles Lettres, all twenty-six of them, in no particular order;

1. The Reconversion of Belles Lettres
Otto Soglow
Reconversion or the Dutch Treat Club Gets Back to Normal:
The Forty-First Anniversary of the Dutch Treat Club, 1946

Photograph by Stephen Kroninger

Next up is The Reconversion of Art. The paper stock must have been suboptimal even in the early postwar period. You can see the unmistakeable silhouette of a Rube Goldberg drawing showing through from the other side.

2. The Reconversion of Art
Otto Soglow
Reconversion or the Dutch Treat Club Gets Back to Normal:
The Forty-First Anniversary of the Dutch Treat Club, 1946

Photograph by Stephen Kroninger

 Then there's Music. Let's play along.

3. The Reconversion of Music
Otto Soglow
Reconversion or the Dutch Treat Club Gets Back to Normal:
The Forty-First Anniversary of the Dutch Treat Club, 1946

Photograph by Stephen Kroninger

What the D.T.C. calls the Drama, we call Melodrama.

4. The Reconversion of the Drama
Otto Soglow
Reconversion or the Dutch Treat Club Gets Back to Normal:
The Forty-First Anniversary of the Dutch Treat Club, 1946

Photograph by Stephen Kroninger

 Let's not forget what it's all about:

5. The Reconversion of Sex
Otto Soglow
Reconversion or the Dutch Treat Club Gets Back to Normal:
The Forty-First Anniversary of the Dutch Treat Club, 1946

Photograph by Stephen Kroninger

It just never gets old:

6. The Reconversion of the Allied Arts
Otto Soglow
Reconversion or the Dutch Treat Club Gets Back to Normal:
The Forty-First Anniversary of the Dutch Treat Club, 1946

Photograph by Stephen Kroninger

Note:  My heartfelt thanks to Stephen Kroninger for providing these photographs from his extensive archive.

Otto Soglow created enough work to keep a blogger busy forever. Send in your scans or photographs of original Soglow art or of his obscure published work such as that appearing in College Humor or the Dutch Treat Club yearbooks. I'll get right to work on it.


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