Life
Long before the photographs and the red logo, Life was America’s humour weekly. This is the New Year number for January 5th, 1905: jokes, cartoons, and page after page of motor-car advertising.
⬇ FREE PDF · 18.7 MB — at archive.org ↗Humour & Satire
Jokes a hundred years old, and a surprising number of them still land.
College Humor
September 1926, and the contents page is a small miracle: John Held Jr., Robert Benchley, a James Montgomery Flagg illustration — and a very young Cornell Woolrich.
⬇ FREE PDF · 28.9 MB — at archive.org ↗Judge
Thirty-six pages of American joke-telling from June 1924, with a deco flapper on the cover and a very small devil leaning in to give her an idea.
⬇ FREE PDF · 9.2 MB — at archive.org ↗The Magazine of Fun
An orange cover, a cartoon catcher flat on his back, and the promise “TWO BITS FOR A GRANDSTAND CHAIR”. Jokes are a hundred years old and some of them still land.
⬇ FREE PDF · 27.1 MBPuck
America’s first great humour weekly, in glorious chromolithograph. This one has Uncle Sam watching Sherlock Holmes crouch at the keyhole of a door marked CONGRESS: “The Adventure of the Crooked House.”
⬇ FREE PDF · 2.6 MB📭 Nothing on this shelf yet — Humour & Satire is a space we have swept and labelled and not filled. Something will lean up against it soon; in the meantime there are 9 other categories on the 📖 Pulp shelf. ☕
turning the page…
reading on OSSmile · scan courtesy of the Internet Archive
