In July of 2005, the State Archives received three scrapbooks containing 269 of the 4th of July magazine covers. The collection holds over half of the patriotic magazines printed in 1942.

     Elizabeth (Meadows) Crissman of Ipswich, SD compiled the July 1942 magazine covers and placed them in these scrapbooks.  Elizabeth had three main sources for collecting the magazines: trips to Aberdeen, mailing in requests for magazines, and receiving covers from friends who knew she was collecting.