Famous artists, when they weren't painting the covers for the magazines, paid their bills by doing art for advertisers. Some of the things they did can stand up with the best of their covers, and much of it is fascinating today for what it tells us about life and popular culture of the past. This is a small door that opens up into a very large cathedral of art.
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Advertisements for meat, corn flakes, candy bars, flour, beer, wine, spirits, broccoli, peanut butter: Here they are.
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Here we find pulps devoted to the adventurous thrills that all their readers hoped might be theirs some day, or else just lived vicariously in the thrilling dreams of others. Danger! Warfare! Frontiers! Mysterious messages and treacherous missions against hopeless odds!
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Automobile ads kept magazines going through good times and hard. High-ticket items, they could afford to pay for color reproduction when that was too expensive for most other products. Everybody knows something about cars! Some of these ads were created by the best artists in the business. And some of them are just fun to look at as nostalgia; or, if you prefer, ancient history. Trucks here, too. Also wagons and carriages. If you like these, check out this great website of scans of...
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Clothing and fashions pay the bills at our department stores and shopping malls. We pay the bills for our clothing and fashions. And advertisements in magazines told us what we were going to buy (or make), and why.
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Begun in 1910 as a way for publisher Ridgway to tap into a new market, it specialized in stories of danger and thrills. At this time other pulp and popular magazines contained a wide variety of stories ranging from danger to romance (even when these are not the same thing). Its creation was a logical response to the success of pulps like ARGOSY, which by 1910 were selling hundreds of thousands of copies of each issue; but the focus on adventure was something new. It survived, in one form or...
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Build a transportation system, and people and things will travel. Here are ads for all things related.
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A noxious weed, and an important part of the American economy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tobacco advertising paid for many an editorial lunch and kept lots of artists employed.
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Here are the ads for the common everyday household things you need to have around to keep the place clean and running. And also the objects of beauty that make life worthwhile. A little bit of decoration, a little bit of dirt removal.
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Mainstays of the advertising pages were personal items such as toiletries, beauty aids, perfumes, bath and facial soaps, and the like. Human interactions are important: Flowers, cards, notes.
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The (undated) first issue of Hugh Hefner's revolutionary magazine, the one with the famous center spread of Marilyn Monroe. Artist: Source: eBay seller powerangers Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Men's Magazines, Playboy, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage...
Audio, and early video, and records, and entertainment. The beginnings of an industry that is still with us, slowly engulfing (or being engulfed by) the computer industry.
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Health and medicine ads have supported numberless magazines over the years. Some publishers refused patent medicine ads, and some got rich on them. Ditto for equipment, which can range from something as straightforward as crutches to something as questionable and as "Violet Rays". Techniques can be as simple as yoga and as complex as sequestration in a private hospital.
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Art prints have been around as long as printing has been around. Film, movies, cinema, as an art that moves, only a short time, but fully the memory of living humans. Books and magazines have been the subject of ads as long as the memory of humankind. Or so it would seem. Not only did magazines run ads for themselves and for other titles from the same publisher, they often ran ads for totally unconnected magazine titles. Sometimes they sold the space to the other publisher, and sometimes they...
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Magazines aimed at men. A lot of cheesecake and spicy stuff, with a lot of adventure and sweat. You know what you're looking for here.
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Political cartoon against William Jennings Bryan for the 1896 presidential campaign, showing a dollar coin crying if Bryan wins. The "Crown of Thorns" of Finance encircles the bleeding head of Lady Liberty. Legend: "In Bryan We Trust / One Dollar 1896 Less 47 Cents." Title: "When silver is King / the dollar of the future / size of life." Artist: E. T. Richards Source: Tom Harris, collector/seller, on eBay as tabasco_life Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Humor Magazines, Life, the humor magazine, money, inflation, gold standard, populism, democratic...
Bicycles became vastly popular in the late 19th century and paved the way (sorry!) for automobiles by creating a population that wanted good, smooth, hard-surfaced roads and plenty of them. Motorcycles were an adaption that combined the best and worst of the two. And then there were motorbikes, and scooters, and any motorized conveyance that could spring full-blown from the head of the American backyard inventor.
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This archive is about art in vintage magazines, but there weren't actually that many vintage magazines about art and design. Even if you throw Antiques into the pot, the number is small. Don't worry; it may be small, but what's here will be of great interest.
Topics: magazine art, design, art
Ad for Kellogg's Toasted Corn Flakes, from the May, 1915 issue of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. This looks like one of J. C. Leyendecker's paintings for Kellogg's.
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Food and Beverages, Breakfast!, child, spooning
Pens and pencils and paper and office supplies. Now we have major national chains providing these materials to the end consumer. Back in the day we needed to see ads like these to decide what to buy. Hey, we still do.
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Advertisements for outdoor and indoor sports and equipment for them. Guns, rods, racquets, balls; the list is endless.
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Mary Collins Source: eBay seller unclecrickey, via Croaker
Topics: Men's Magazines, See, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage advertisements
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A small child discovers Christmas, standing by the tree and staring entranced at the decorations and the presents.
Topics: Women's Magazines, Good Housekeeping, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage...
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There were at least three issues of this pulp, but even the experts don't have much to say about it, except "rare to very rare".
Topics: Rare Pulps, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage advertisements
Ad for Babcock Electric Carriages, published in the May, 1911 issue of COSMOPOLITAN.
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Automobiles, Trucks, and Wagons, Electric Automobiles, wagon, coach
Ad for the Trados Nose Shaper, from the March, 1916 issue of AINSLEE'S MAGAZINE. Comment is unnecessary.
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Health and Medicine, Quack Equipment, magazine covers, vintage...
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39 home workshop projects; complete plans for 15 foot canoe. Source: Grenville Abernethy, who sells on eBay as banjoflier, and has an eBay store as "model aviation magazines".
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Mechanix Illustrated, magazine covers, vintage magazines,...
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Young woman swinging a badminton racquet, out in a meadow full of daisies; daisies shown on either side of her in a triptych
Topics: Women's Magazines, Designer, sports, competition, field, flowers, exercise, enjoyment, outdoors,...
ROMANCE specialized in romance and love stories set among exotic and distant lands, in historical settings, and in the face of danger and adventure. This was the second pulp magazine published by Ridgway, a company which had been successful first with EVERYBODY'S MAGAZINE, a mass-market title printed on quality paper and aimed at both men and women, and secondly with ADVENTURE, a purely pulp magazine aimed primarily at men. It debuted in November 1919, and at first published mostly fiction in...
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Madman enjoys putting naked women in cages, with slave collars on their necks, but apparently forgets to feed them. Artist: Source: Brian Bennett Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Horror, Terror, and Shudder Pulps, Terror Tales, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising...
Here's a school where you have to be a resident. Guess you can't learn about all those makes of cars (see bottom right corner of the ad) sitting under your shade tree. Published in the May 7, 1916 issue of the AMERICAN SUNDAY MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Education and Training, Technical Training and Education, magazine...
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Woman being fitted for her bridal dress, while a couple of children sneak a look in through the slighty opened door. Artist: Harrison Fisher Source: the Antique Paper Shop Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Women's Magazines, Ladies' Home Journal, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art,...
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Photo of Lilly St. Cyr in even less, strategically hidden behind content banner. Nudists hold a convention. Glamour girl comedienne. Wild gorilla on a spree. Source: eBay seller unclecrickey Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Men's Magazines, Laff, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage advertisements
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Artist: Franklin Booth Source: eBay seller ThomasC at American Art Archives, which also has its own wonderful website about American illustrators
Topics: Humor Magazines, Life, the humor magazine, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art,...
Artist: Source: Vintage Magazine Seller ephemeraforever.com Restoration: magscanner
Topics: Adventure Pulps, Adventure magazine, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage...
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Two dancers in elaborate costumes, doing "Dance Guerrière Caucausienne"
Topics: Women's Magazines, Harper's Bazar, Harper's Bazaar, fashions, homemaking, needlework, cooking,...
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Two nearly naked Greco-Roman wrestlers. PHYSICAL CULTURE "Points the Way to Virile Manhood and Superb Womanhood," and is "The Guide to Real Efficiency." Artist: Source: Collector and author John Locke Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Health and Fitness Magazines, Physical Culture, nude, competition, Olympics, gay
Find here ads for instruments, sheet music, musical books, accessories, concerts; anything music-related. However, note that phonographs and record players and gramophones have their own section, with radios, televisions and the like.
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Black cat in pink and red Japanese samurai costume, holding open a fan, and standing underneath a blossoming cherry tree Artist: Nellie Littlehale Umbstaetter Source: Scrimbab Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Fiction Magazines, Black Cat, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage...
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Marilyn Monroe Source: eBay seller unclecrickey, via Croaker
Topics: Men's Magazines, See, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage advertisements
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Artist: Source: eBay seller ThomasC at American Art Archives, which also has its own wonderful website about American illustrators
Topics: Humor Magazines, Life, the humor magazine, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art,...
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Artist: John Holmgren Source: Mariangela Buch Image Processing by: magscanner Our Sponsors:
Topics: Women's Magazines, Modern Priscilla, Modern Priscilla, women's magazines, sewing, fancywork,...
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Dec 19, 2018
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Artist: Herbert Paus Source: Collector and illustration website proprietor Doug Allewell Image Processing by: Collector and illustration website proprietor Doug Allewell
Topics: Humor Magazines, Life, the humor magazine, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art,...
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Futuristic Tank Battleship is a heavily armored hydrofoil battleship that also has tracks that presumably can operate on land if the hydrofoils are retracted.
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Modern Mechanics / Mechanix, magazine covers, vintage magazines,...
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Woman in red sitting on a stone or concrete garden beach, holding a card in one hand and a pencil in the other, apparently about to write a message (or thinking about what she has just written). In the background are greenswards and a lake, as might be found on a vast estate.
Topics: Women's Magazines, Delineator, fashion, style, clothing, sewing, patterns, home, jewelry,...
Published in the May, 1912 issue of MODERN PRISCILLA.
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Food and Beverages, Soft Drinks, Non-Alcoholic, magazine covers,...
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Woman in harlequin-like pattern, holding black parasol and with purple and black ostrich feather in her hat, stands displaying the fashions. Title: "Golden Jubilee Number: Fifty years ago Ebenezer Butterick invented the First Paper Pattern and founded the Great Fashion House which bears his name."
Topics: Women's Magazines, Delineator, Carl Kleinschmidt
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Woman in elaborate summer dress, with white parasol, standing in the garden and talking to her dog; in the background is a columned mansion, on a lake
Topics: Women's Magazines, Designer, Spring, walk, parade, wealth, fashion, style, clothing
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Photograph of Gene Tierney. Content: "My Problems as a War Wife," by Gene Tierney, and "Exclusive candid photos of Frank Sinatra." Source: Dave Wills, who sells on eBay as dwills1000, and has an eBay storefront "Dave's Odds and Ends" Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Movies, TV, and Radio Magazines, Screenland, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art,...
Without cameras the magazineart.org would be a lot smaller and less interesting. Hail photography!
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10 STORY BOOK began in 1901 as a magazine publishing general fiction, but after a few years became a spicy magazine featuring female nudes. It was edited 1917-1940 by the astonishing Harry Stephen Keeler.
Topics: Spicy Pulps, A Variety of Spicy Pulps, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage...
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Naked woman wrapped in a bouquet with roses; a "rose among the flowers." Artist: Source: Curious Book Shop; photograph by magscanner Restoration by: Chad Wicker
Topics: Humor Magazines, Capt. Billy's Whiz Bang, metaphor, nude, nudity, seduction
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Source: eBay sellers Image Restoration: magscanner
Topics: Women's Magazines, Delineator, fashion, style, clothing, sewing, patterns, home, jewelry,...
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Bee coming to flower for pollen is confused to find a sleeping pixie lying right in the center of it. "Tomorrow is Monday," by Mary Synon, and scissors painting, needlework, fashions, spring cookery, and beauty suggestions. Artist: Maginel Wright Barney Source: eBay seller daysoffuturepast, who also sells printed materials from her personal website. Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Women's Magazines, Woman's World magazine, garden, bemused, fantasy, fan
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Choice Geraniums, offered for sale for your garden, in the pages of THE MAYFLOWER. Great color litho work. Artist: Source: Mariangela Buch Restoration by: Mariangela Buch
Topics: House and Garden Magazines, Mayflower, bouquet, seeds, gardening, flowers, decoration, fragrance
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Artist: Source: eBay seller banjoflier
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Modern Mechanics / Mechanix, magazine covers, vintage magazines,...
Artist: Source: Vintage Magazine Seller ephemeraforever.com Restoration: magscanner
Topics: Adventure Pulps, Adventure magazine, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage...
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"Build this starting-battery ice sled." Man and woman driving across frozen pond in their electric battery-powered sled. Artist: Source: eBay seller banjoflier
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Science and Mechanics / Everyday Science and Mechanics, magazine...
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Spicy pulp or photojournalism? America's most undressed working girls. And one of them a photojournalist, too. "The entertaining picture magazine." Source: ebay seller powerangers Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: News and Current Events Magazines, Photojournalism Magazines, sex, legs, babe, beauty
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Artist: K. Pyle Source: Jeff Kaylin Image Processing by: magscanner
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Topics: Women's Magazines, Woman's Home Companion, Woman's Home Companion, K. Pyle, New Year, chick, egg,...
Toys. Games. Let's play.
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Five-light candelabrum and gold scroll to celebrate Christmas. Artist: Source: ebay seller powerangers Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Women's Magazines, Good Housekeeping, holiday, decoration, candle
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Dec 15, 2018
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Rabbit sitting on a large Easter egg, reading the current issue of CHILD LIFE, showing him sitting etc. An umbrella protects him and magazine from the April showers. Artist: John Gee Source: eBay seller millionmagazines Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Youth, Children, and Kids' Magazines, Child Life, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising...
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Artist: Paul Stahr Source: eBay seller ThomasC at American Art Archives, which also has its own wonderful website about American illustrators
Topics: Humor Magazines, Life, the humor magazine, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art,...
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Witches, rats, pumpkin jesters, and black cats dance, while owls stare disapprovingly, as Halloween comes to town in this wallpaper or quilt design. Artist: Source: Art collector finsbry on Flickr Restoration by: finsbry
Topics: Youth, Children, and Kids' Magazines, John Martin's Book, Hallowe'en, terror, midnight, festive
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Artist: M. E. Musselman Source: Mariangela Buch Image Processing by: magscanner Our Sponsors:
Topics: Women's Magazines, Modern Priscilla, Modern Priscilla, women's magazines, sewing, fancywork,...
Always a mainstay of the magazine advertising pages, companies that promise to train you for a new job or educate you for a new role in life or society have given us images that have become part of our popular culture.
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Topics: Health and Fitness Magazines, Sexology, Gernsback's serious magazine about Sex, magazine covers,...
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Source: Frank M. Robinson Image Processing by: magscanner Tags & Keywords: Saucy Movie Tales, January 1937
Topics: Spicy Pulps, A Variety of Spicy Pulps, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage...
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Hot stuff modern lady circa 1926, with cigarette in a holder and a gypsy shawl falling open to reveal she's not wearing anything underneath. Artist: Harrison Fisher Source: eBay seller American Art Archives
Topics: Monthly Magazines, Cosmopolitan Magazine, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art,...
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The cover is reprinted from the May, 1934 issue of PARIS NIGHTS.
Topics: Spicy Pulps, A Variety of Spicy Pulps, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage...
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Portrait of Marlene Dietrich. Also: "The Man all Hollywood Fears." Artist: Earl Christy Source: Charles Perrien Restoration by: Charles Perrien
Topics: Movies, TV, and Radio Magazines, Photoplay, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art,...
The Gold Medal Glenwood can use coal, wood, or gas, and comes with Thermolator temperature control, three ovens, four gas burners, and four covers for coal. From the Weir Stove Co. of Taunton, MA. Published in the November, 1922 issue of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. Artist: Source: eBay seller daysoffuturepast, who also sells printed materials from her personal website. Restoration by: jess at daysoffuturepast
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Household Items, Major Appliances, utility, flexibility, size,...
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Baby playing with wooden toy duck, surrounded by top and stuffed elephant toys, presumably Christmas gifts. Content: Items by Alice Duer Miller, Brooke Hanlon, Margaret Culkin Banning, Conrad Richter, and Alice-Leone Moats. Artist: DH Source: eBay seller daysoffuturepast, who also sells printed materials from her personal website. Restoration by: magscanner
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Topics: Women's Magazines, Ladies' Home Journal, holiday, presents, infant, smiling
Beautiful ad for Holeproof Silk Hosiery for women, with a model sitting on a wall in front of a thousand pink roses. Published in the October, 1924 issue of COSMOPOLITAN. Artist: Coles Phillips Source: Charles Perrien Restoration by: Charles Perrien
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Clothing and Fashions, Women's Hosiery, magazine covers, vintage...
