Old Magazine Articles

[canetoad]

Great website with scans of many original articles from early-mid 20th C; from an interview with Trotsky, discussion of wind-power in 1925, climate change in 1912. Lots of popular culture, history and interview.

http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/home.php

About Us

OldMagazineArticles.com is a Los Angeles-based website; privately owned and operated, it is the effort of one old magazine enthusiast in particular who believes deeply that today's readers of history can learn a good deal from the old periodicals. It is a primary source website and is designed to serve as a reference for students, educators, authors, researchers, dabblers, dilettantes, hacks and the merely curious. The old articles, essays, poetry, cartoons and photographs that can be found on the site have all been collected from a number of different libraries, bookshops and yard sales throughout the United States and Europe. The topics selected reflect the whims of the editor as well as the growing interests of the internet community. To the best of our understanding, all the content is in the public domain and you need never ask our permission should you wish to use any of the articles for publication; we do ask as a courtesy, however, that you provide this simple credit: "This article was provided by OldMagazineArticles.com"

[myrna minx]

1. Very cool. Thanks for posting.

[Octafish]

2. Guns over Butter: Food Shortages in the Third Reich (Literary Digest, 1937)

Wow! It's like being back then.

PDF: http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/pdf/1937_Nazi_Food-Shortage.pdf

[canetoad]

3. Have you noticed

that most of the articles come from a left wing position?

[leveymg]

4. With some major exceptions -- TIME, LOOK, etc. -- American journalism more Left-wing in '30s-'40s.

It took McCarthyism to put America's mind to sleep. It revived in the 1960's-'70s, and then Reagan-Bush came along and conked it on the head again, a blow to the brain from which it seemingly has not recovered.

[Octafish]

8. Thanks for the heads-up. Things in the 'information environment' then were decidedly more liberal.

Things really changed rightward after November 22, 1963. Great Society or no Great Society, it has been a palpable change.

[mdmc]

5. cool

thanks

[Wind Dancer]

6. Fantastic!

Thanks for sharing this gem of a site. I LOVE reading articles from old magazines.

K & R

[pscot]

7. Great find

Thanks for posting.

[Hannah Bell]

9. That is great. My library had bound copies of certain magazines dating back

to the 20s or earlier in its stacks until around the 80s. Then they disappeared.

I mourned them, for the same reasons -- it's history, down the memory hole.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. The car cadio of the 1920's:

http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/pdf/CAR%20radio.pdf

:rofl:

Truly, the Hacker Way started well before the computer era. Fuck, I love stuff like this. Thanks for the cool link.

[canetoad]

16. How about

"With a few cars equipped as this one, a minister could talk to a dozen congregations at once." :rofl: The first televangelists.

[robdogbucky]

11. From my state of birth, Wisconsin, a friend left me a book

that contains the archived photos and real news articles from small town newspapers in the state from the beginnings early in the 1800s up to the start of the next century.

The title is Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy and it is a trip.

It depicts a people stressed out by the newness of the harsh new world for immigrants, the severity of life in the upper midwest in those early days and the insanity it spawned.

Very interesting reading.

Was also made into a documentary film in 2000:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Death_Trip



Just my dos centavos

robdogbucky

[Bozita]

12. Good Stuff! ... Recommended

[Prometheus Bound]

13. Thanks.

[Mojorabbit]

14. Cool! Thanks! nt

[Toon Me Out]

15. THANK YOU FOR POSTING

what a dream resource!:yourock:

[Raine]

17. THANKS so much

this is way COOL! :hi: