Hi Gang,
Here's some more early pre-comics era newsstand photos of drug stores which sold a variety of magazines and pulps at the time.
The first batch are all of a single store -
Peoples Drugs Store, 11th & G St., Washington, D.C..
Seems there were several of these around the country and they look quite sophisticated from these pictures.
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1920-Washington,_DC_People's_Drug_Store,_11th_&_G_Streets_outside.jpg
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1920-Washington,_DC_People's_Drug_Store,_11th_&_G_Streets_1-interior.jpg
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1920-Washington,_DC_People's_Drug_Store,_11th_&_G_Streets_2.jpg
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1920-Washington,_DC_People's_Drug_Store,_11th_&_G_Streets_3.jpg
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1920-Washington,_DC_People's_Drug_Store,_11th_&_G_Streets_4.jpg
1 2 3 4 5#1 - 1919-1920-Peoples Drugs Store, 11th & G, Washington, D.C., night.District of Columbia United States Washington D.C. Washington D.C, 1919. [or 1920] Photograph.
https://www.loc.gov/item/2016851811/.
#2 - 1920-21-Peoples Drug Store, interior11th & G, Washington, D.C. District of Columbia United States Washington D.C. Washington D.C, None. [Between 1920 and 1921] Photograph.
https://www.loc.gov/item/2016823728/.
#3 - 1920-21-Peoples Drug Store, interior 211th & G, Washington, D.C. District of Columbia United States Washington D.C. Washington D.C, None. [Between 1920 and 1921] Photograph.
https://www.loc.gov/item/2016823727/.
#4 - 1920-21-Peoples Drug Store, group11th & G, Washington, D.C. District of Columbia United States Washington D.C. Washington D.C, None. [Between 1920 and 1921] Photograph.
https://www.loc.gov/item/2016823725/.
#5 - 1920-21-Peoples Drug Store, front of store11th & G, Washington, D.C. District of Columbia United States Washington D.C. Washington D.C, None. [Between 1920 and 1921] Photograph.
https://www.loc.gov/item/2016823726/.
Next up is three from the
Williamsburg Bridge in NYC taken by
Eugene de Salignachttp://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1918.06.03-NYC_Williamsburg_Bridge2-Salignac.jpg
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1918.06.03-NYC_Williamsburg_Bridge1-Salignac.jpg
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1918.06.03-NYC_Williamsburg_Bridge1-close-up.jpg
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1922.05-drugstore-1.jpg
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1929.02-Cosmo-Rinhart.jpg
6 7 8 9 10#6 - 1918.06.03-Williamsburg Bridge view showing news stand south side of Delancey Street between Clinton and SuffolkCreator: Salignac, Eugene de, 1861-1943
http://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/s/o21999#7 - 1918.06.03-Williamsburg Bridge view of newspaper stands east side of Norfolk Street at west end of trolley stair houseCreator: Salignac, Eugene de, 1861-1943
http://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/s/efy409#8 - 1918.06.03-Williamsburg Bridge view of newspaper stands close-upCreator: Salignac, Eugene de, 1861-1943
http://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/s/efy409You can see an issue of
Cosmopolitan June 1918https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/99008891790950321/#9 - 1922.05-unknown drugstoreYou can see an
Argosy All–Story Weekly, The Blue Book and the May 20, 1922, issue of
The Popular Magazine are among the titles on display at left in this photo of a drugstore.
A woman stands at the counter of a drug store sometime in the first half of 1925. Along the bottom row of the magazine rack on the right are copies of the pulp magazines -
Flynn's Blue Book, Action Stories, Love Story, Breezy Stories, Detective Fiction Weekly, Snappy Stories, Argosy All-Story Weekly.
http://www.thepulp.net/pulp-info/pulp-history/pulp-photos/#10 - 1929.2-People at Newsstand Browse Papers and Magazines(Original Caption) Photo shows people at a newsstand, browsing , ca. 1929. (Photo by George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images)
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/license/540461440You can see on the top right -
Cosmopolitan Magazine, (February 1929) Artist: Harrison Fisher
https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/404268504028210480/http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1934.03-04_News_Stand,_Apr._1934-Bray_small.jpg
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1935.07.13-MM1-Hulton.jpg
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1935-ms4-1309.jpg
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1938.09.26_NYC_newsstand.jpg
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/images/forum message pictures/newsstands/1938.09-LIFE-San_Antonio_stand.jpg
11 12 13 14 15#11 - 1934.04-Main NewsstandUtah State Historical Society - Clifford Bray Film Negatives
© 2009 Utah State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.
Reference URL:
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/details?id=423936The majority if not all the magazines are cover dated April but the
Time, Liberty and newspapers seem to be late March.
Time Magazine from March 19, 1934.
http://time.com/vault/year/1934/Literay Digest from March 17, 1934
Another view of the same newsstand can be seen at this link:
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/details?id=423937#12 - 1935.07.13-Newstand Magazines -Hulton(Original Caption) Various magazines and comic books at a newsstand. Featured are such magazines as
Collier's, the Saturday Evening Post, and
Time. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/license/2696009COMIC: Between the
Liberty and
Redbook magazine is
Mickey Mouse Magazine v1 #1 (June-August [Summer] 1935)Several pulps are across the top of the display.
Along the bottom is
Time Magazine - July 8, 1935 with Joseph A. Lyons on the cover.
https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19350708,00.htmlColliers Weekly (July 13, 1935)
http://www.unz.com/print/Colliers-1935jul13/#13 - 1935 store interiorSource unknown.
Little Annie Rooney in foreground (1935 David McKay)
https://www.comics.org/issue/376737/cover/4/Mickey Mouse #4 (1934 David McKay) -guess
https://www.comics.org/issue/937459/#14 - 1938.09.26-Newsstand at Fifth Avenue & 42nd St., New York CitySource unknown
Lower right -
Life Magazine (1938.09.26)
https://www.oldlifemagazines.com/september-26-1938-life-magazine.htmlMiddle right -
Saturday Evening Post, (1938.10.01)
http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/saturday-evening-post/17#i827Bottom right -
Collier's Weekly, (1938.10.01)
http://www.unz.com/print/Colliers-1938oct01/#15 - 1938.09-San Antonio standHere's an Oct 1938 shot of a San Antonio stand with an issue of
Marvel Science Stories v1#2.
Life Magazine (October 24, 1938) - Sid Luckman cover
From the Pulpnet site:
http://www.thepulp.net/pulp-info/pulp-history/pulp-photos/More early newsstand photos to come!
-Yoc