05/20/2025
We've just added two covers and a dozen ads from JUDGE for July 23 and 30, 1910 onto the website. Celebrate! Have a beer.
The golden age of magazine cover and advertising art (1870-1940)
05/20/2025
We've just added two covers and a dozen ads from JUDGE for July 23 and 30, 1910 onto the website. Celebrate! Have a beer.
Someone has sent me a Message saying that magazineart.org has violated Meta's trademarks. Not sure how that can be, as there's nothing here later than 1955. The purported sender has an account with nothing posted since 2013, so I'm suspecting an elaborate phishing attempt. Looking back through the messages, it seems someone else sent the same message in January, but that person seems to have disappeared from FB since that time.
Has anyone ever seen seen this kind of thing?
11/20/2023
We've just added some more cover images from the old LIFE, the Humor Magazine, to the magazineart site. Almost all of the second half of 1886 is now online, from covers we scanned and reworked in Photoshop. Tom Harris lent us the volume from his collection, and wow! thanks again, Tom!
Start here: https://www.magazineart.org/piwigo/picture.php?/18829/category/115
11/06/2023
1930
Ads by Newspapers seeking Advertisers
The January 1930 issue of the automobile industry trade magazine MOTOR ran 300 pages, most of them ads aimed at service stations, suppliers, and dealers. Twenty full-page ads were from newspapers looking for advertisers, anything from the car manufacturers to local service operators. The Depression had not yet taken hold, and hopes were high.
Here are a few in a variety of styles, some of them timeless, and some of them that shout 1920's. And that was nearly a century ago. All twenty at https://magazineart.org/piwigo/index.php?/category/691
01/31/2023
Twelve more 1930 automobile trade ads! And we'll have some more later.
http://www.magazineart.org/update.html
12/08/2022
Today's addition: thirteen more ads from the 1930 Automobile Show edition of MOTOR, the industry trade magazine. Samples below; follow this link for the full story: http://magazineart.org/update.html
12/05/2022
More pulps added today, fifteen 1930-49, in several categories. Again a bit rough, partial restoration only. Samples here; full list linked from http://www.magazineart.org/update.html
12/04/2022
We've just added fourteen 1933-50 Crime and Detective pulps. These were a little rough, so we did a basic cleanup. We'll replace them if we get some nicer ones to work with. Samples below; links at http://www.magazineart.org/update.html
11/24/2022
Added twelve more 1930 automotive industry (i.e. "trade") ads, from the 1930 Auto Show edition of MOTOR. Here are samples; all the rest of everything from http://www.magazineart.org/update.html
11/23/2022
We've just added ten older Railroad Ads online. Samples below; all linked from http://www.magazineart.org/update.html
11/11/2022
Added eight Travel ads 1904-33, for Hotels, Cruise Lines, Destinations, Luggage, and Shipping Lines. Here are samples; go to What's New for links:http://www.magazineart.org/update.html
11/09/2022
We've just added five 1920-27 covers from ASIA, the American magazine about that continent and its people. Two of them are by Frank McIntosh, whose amazing run of covers for this title from the mid-1920s till the early 1930s set a style that has been rarely approached. Samples here; more at http://magazineart.org/piwigo/index.php?/category/126
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