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120 1937 First fashion cover for Votre Beauté – continues to provide images for Verve (1937-38) & Photographie (1938-39). 1937 Photomontage of Hitler (1933) is removed from a Berlin exhibition after official protests. 1938 Cecil Beaton visits Blumenfeld in Paris. 1938 Produces first portfolio for Vogue. 1939 Travels to New York, secures contract for Harper's Bazaar as a correspondent in Paris, returns just before German invasion of Poland, September 1, 1939. Blumenfeld and Lisette are interned as German citizens. 1940 Secures family visa through the US Consulate in Marseilles. 1941 Arrive in New York in mid-August via North Africa, where pestilence breaks out on their ship. Yorick becomes very ill but survives. 1941 First colour cover for Harper's Bazaar (and later featuring in Coronet, Cosmopolitan, Graphis, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Life, Look, Pageant, Picture Post, and various others). 1943 Copies of Hitlerfresse (1933) are dropped as propaganda over Germany by US airforce. 1944 Leaves Harper's Bazaar for Vogue. Contract with Condé Nast. Builds career in advertising working for clients like Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubenstein. 1946 Receives American citizenship. 1948 Exhibited in the show In and Out of Focus, curated by Edward Steichen. Exhibited in Seventeen American Photographers show in Los Angeles. 1952-4 Begins working for the Dayton Fashion Company. Buys a house in Long Island. 1955 Ends his collaboration with Vogue. Kathleen Levy-Barnett becomes his agent. 1963 Signs his last major contract with L'Oreal. 1964 Marina Schinz becomes his assistant. 1969 Completes autobiography, & creates book My One Hundred Best Photographs – though neither is published at the time. July 4 1969 Suffers a fatal heart attack on the Spanish steps in Rome and is buried there.