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April 1954 issue of Dare

Below are links to digital collections and exhibits that focus on or include selections of mid-twentieth century print and media.

  • Ad * Access Duke University’s digitized collection of American and Canadian advertisements contains 7,000 images from important early 20th and mid-century magazines including Esquire and Fortune. The collection can be searched in a variety of ways including subject, company, date, publication, and audience.

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs The Library of Congress collection contains digital images from the Prints & Photographs Division, including photographs, fine art and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings, with a focus on documenting the history of the United States and Americans.

  • LUNA Commons LUNA contains over 300,000 images from public collections of the LUNA community, nearly 3,000 of which are from the Modern Graphic History Library.

  • Newstand 1925 This digital exhibit offers users a look at a "virtual newstand from the summer of 1925."

  • New York Public Library Digital Gallery The NYPL Digital Gallery contains over 800,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's collections, including periodicals, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs, and more.

  • The Pulp Magazines Project This open-access digital archive is dedicated to the study and preservation of pulp magazines from 1896 to 1946.