Libelle is a weekly women’s magazine published in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It has been in circulation since 1934.
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| Covers of the Libelle in the 1940s |
The target audience of Libelle is women aged between 30–55 most of whom are average Dutch women. The weekly mostly features articles about fashion, beauty, culinary, travel, human interest, health, and work. It was almost a kind of unmissable manual for housewives, full of tips to restore items, housekeeping, etc.
Libelle was the thirtieth best-selling women’s magazine in 2001 globally with a circulation of 643,000 copies. By 2016 circulation fell to about 300,000 copies. It kept dropping since, at a rate of about 20,000 annually.
Here below is a set of vintage photos that shows covers of the Libelle in the 1940s.
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| Libelle magazine cover, August 1, 1941 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, August 8, 1941 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, August 15, 1941 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, August 29, 1941 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, December 26, 1941 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, July 4, 1941 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, July 11, 1941 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, July 18, 1941 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, November 7, 1941 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, November 14, 1941 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, November 21, 1941 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, November 28, 1941 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, October 3, 1941 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, October 10, 1941 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, September 12, 1941 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, September 19, 1941 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, September 26, 1941 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, April 10, 1942 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, February 20, 1942 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, January 9, 1942 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, January 16, 1942 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, January 23, 1942 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, January 30, 1942 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, June 12, 1942 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, March 6, 1942 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, March 27, 1942 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, May 15, 1942 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, May 22, 1942 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, May 29, 1942 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, April 2, 1943 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, April 16, 1943 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, April 30, 1943 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, February 5, 1943 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, February 19, 1943 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, January 8, 1943 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, January 22, 1943 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, July 9, 1943 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, June 25, 1943 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, March 5, 1943 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, March 19, 1943 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, May 14, 1943 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, May 28, 1943 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, April 28, 1944 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, February 4, 1944 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, February 18, 1944 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, January 21, 1944 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, July 21, 1944 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, March 3, 1944 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, March 31, 1944 |
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| Libelle magazine cover, May 12, 1944 |
Inter, since all these covers would have been published during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
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