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Scarce original issue of The Family Circle magazine from April 26, 1946, twenty-two pages, 8.5 x 11.25, featuring a front cover image of a young Norma Jeane Dougherty wearing a milkmaid-style dress, smiling as she leans over to pick up a small lamb, with the credit to the lower left listing Andre de Dienes as the photographer. In fine condition, with light scuffs and edgewear.
When this magazine was published, Marilyn Monroe was only 19 years old and still using her given name, which, at the time, ended with the surname of her husband, James Dougherty, whom she would divorce a few months later in September of 1946. The photograph was taken by de Dienes in 1945, during one of Monroe’s first modeling assignments. It’s widely believed that this issue of The Family Circle represents Monroe's first national magazine cover appearance. Monroe mentioned this magazine in a 1956 interview with Pete Martin: ‘One of the magazines I was on wasn’t a man’s magazine at all. It was called Family Circle. You buy it in supermarkets. I was holding a lamb with a pinafore. I was the one with the pinafore.’
