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Pages in category "Magazines established in the 1920s" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. S. Ski-U-Mah (magazine)
At their peak of popularity in the 1920s–1940s, [10] the most successful pulps sold up to one million copies per issue. In 1934, Frank Gruber said there were some 150 pulp titles. The most successful pulp magazines were Argosy, Adventure, Blue Book and Short Stories, collectively described by some pulp historians as "The Big Four". [11]
This a category of magazines which were first established in 1920. Pages in category "Magazines established in 1920" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total.
The Great Depression was the worst economic crisis in US history. More than 15 million Americans were left jobless and unemployment reached 25%. 25 vintage photos show how desperate and desolate ...
With the widespread economic hardships brought on by the Great Depression of 1929, many Americans were more receptive to socialist and leftist ideas. As a result, New Masses grew in circulation and became highly influential in literary, artistic, and intellectual circles. The magazine has been called "the principal organ of the American ...
The contents of the magazine provided a unique look into popular culture, politics, and world events through the Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, and postwar America. It ceased publication in 1950 and was revived briefly in 1971.
The magazine was printed on pulp paper. The magazine can be considered a forerunner of the pulp fiction magazines that were prominent from the 1920s to 1950s, as it avoided more highbrow fare in favor of fiction "for the common man." Several issues of The Popular Magazine featured illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. [4]
By the late 1920s it was one of the largest of the "women's magazines". [3] In June, 1931 it enjoyed a circulation of 2,540,000. [1] In 1936, the publisher sold the magazine to its Vice President, Adman George S. Fowler. [1] In 1937 it merged with The Delineator, another women's magazine. However, two years later, with the Great Depression ...