Edith Stevens was a prolific cultural commentator and artisan who expressed her creativity through various mediums.

Us Girls, the cartoon created by Edith Stevens, reflected the fashion trends, hairstyles, and social manners of generations of women in a humorous, sometimes biting, but always accessible way. Her sketches held up the mirror to her readership with a sharp and comical delivery. Her warmth, wit, and humor resonated and Us Girls quickly built a multi-generational fan base starting in the late 1920s at the Boston Post and continued on at the Boston Globe through the 1960s.

As Us Girls appeared 6 days a week for over 30 years, Edith had almost 10,000 cartoons published. These sketches serve as a time capsule of sorts, chronicling fashion and societal trends over five decades of the twentieth century.