Cover of the Day: December 1945

DEPARTMENT STORE

Peter Piening, Art Director

Alexander Steinweiss, Illustrator

"A store's prestige does not live by merchandise alone. The personal touch of its service departments is as profitable to the store as it is costly to maintain. A few years ago Field's was asked by the executors of an estate to refund the price of a pair of real silk stockings purchased by the deceased twenty years before but never worn The refund was paid promptly. This unquestioning acceptance of the idea that even the dead customer is always right pleased management as much as it would have gratified the founder". --From Marshall Field, the Store, December 1945

GRAPHICS SPECTACULAR!!!

Former  FORTUNE Graphics  Editor LINDA ECKSTEIN blogs about Fortune's early years of amazing graphics, see the entire post here http://bit.ly/en7TrP

Cover of the Day: December 1956

Leo Lionni,  Art Director 

Alexander Semenoick, Illustrator

Robert Weaver, Illustrator (the frieze)

Original caption: Bright patches on this month's cover are the holdings of oil companies in the tidelands off the Mississippi Delta. The  cover, executed by Alexander Semenoick, is based on a detail of a map prepared by Macha Drafting Col, of Houston. The cover frieze, showing steel construction, was painted by Robert Weaver. 

Cover of the Day: December 1952

Leo Lionni,  Art Director 

Walter Allner, Illustrator