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Dick and Jane in the 1950s
Two decades after U.S. schoolchildren began reading about Dick and Jane, many families were benefitting from a prosperous post-war economy. As suburban homes, ownership of cars, and increased purchasing power became reality for some families, Dick and Jane's comfortable world began to be experienced by an increasing pool of baby boom-era readers.
The story "A Doll for Jane" depicts a prosperity almost unfathomable to earlier generations. The following page from that story concludes a sequence in which Father, Mother, and the postman all deliver a wished-for doll to Jane on her birthday.
Image source: Fun with Dick and Jane: A Commemorative Collection of Stories. San Francisco: Collins Publishers, 1996.
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