Boys’ Life
June 1929, twenty cents: a Model T named Leaping Lena packed to the roof with camp kit, a dog and a hand-lettered sign reading CAMP OR BUST — plus complete plans for a model plane.
⬇ FREE PDF · 45.9 MB — at archive.org ↗Young Folks
The children’s monthlies — where Twain, Kipling and the readers all wrote.
Boys’ Life
Twenty cents, November 1925, “the biggest magazine in the world for boys” — with a wild turkey in full display drawn right across the front and a story to match by Ralph Henry Barbour.
⬇ FREE PDF · 39.8 MBThe American Boy
Two cowhands in woolly chaps on a moonlit ridge, one of them mid-holler — “Conroy of C-Bar Ranch”. Twenty cents, or two dollars for a whole year of this.
⬇ FREE PDF · 25.3 MBSt. Nicholas
February 1923: a horse-drawn sleigh under a full moon, a boy on a sled behind it, and the whole quiet blue of a winter night. Children’s magazines used to look like this.
⬇ FREE PDF · 16.9 MBThe American Boy
“The Biggest, Brightest, Best Magazine for Boys in All the World”, and the April cover is a kid at the swimming hole testing the water with one toe. Puzzling baseball plays explained inside.
⬇ FREE PDF · 10.9 MBSt. Nicholas
The great American children’s magazine — a galleon and a rowboat full of kids on the October cover. Twain, Kipling and Louisa May Alcott all wrote for this thing, and so did the children, in the letters pages.
⬇ FREE PDF · 17.0 MB📭 Nothing on this shelf yet — Young Folks 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
