Google Books is not the only place to find issues of Popular Mechanics, they can also be found in the online library of the Webarchive. In 1954 a series of drawings and articles was published (spread out over the first 4 months of 1954) about the USS Midway. These are drawings in about 1/580 scale, representing her more or less as built (before the first mid-50's reconstruction).
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this link to go to the Webarchive. You'll notice there are 12 pdf's, the drawings can be found in the first 4 pdf's. The magazine can be downloaded in pdf or jpg/jp2 fileformat. It's not that hard to convert jp2 files to jpg format
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