The Lantern part 2 – History of John Carty
An installment of a melodrama by Frederic Gerrish, the 8-year-old editor of The Lantern of Portland, Maine, 1853.
The Lantern – part 1
Pages from issues of handmade juvenile publications, The Lantern, created by 8-year-old Frederic Gerrish of Portland, Maine, 1853-1859.
Tune in again later for the tale of John Carty . . .
Ads, Ads, Ads . . . or “Have you learned about mouth-happiness?” (courtesy of Spud cigarettes)
Advertising pages from the September 11, 1933 issue of TIME Magazine, which featured a profile of Gertrude Stein.
The Agnes Magazine
A handmade magazine by Gelett Burgess, created for his crush, Agnes Bouchard, while living in London in 1898.
Whisper Campaign
An issue of Whisper from June, 1956, an example of the gossip-fueled tabloids that multiplied in the 1950s,
answering (and creating) the American public’s thirst for scandals – especially about
actors and actresses, and exposés of the underbelly of the middle class.
Among such articles about wife-swapping in the suburbs and crime rings for hire,
are overtly hostile profiles of gay men, including the pan of Liberace’s first starring role in a film
and a frank open letter to Tennessee Williams penned by his “old friend,” Max Maxwell.
The magazine is also filled with ads promising body-reshaping, sex tips, and
and the extremely practical “hair-do cutouts” from Hollywood Hair-Do (located on Long Island).
Rascal, Villain, Coward,
“Plan for the improvement of the art of paper war” from: The American museum; or, Universal magazine, 1787 May.
Icteric
The first issue of Icteric, an arts magazine published in 1967-68 by David and Stuart Wise, who would go on to form the King Mob.
Daily Bul
Pages from two runs of Daily Bul, a magazine produced by the sculptor, Pol Bury, from the late 1950s through the mid-1960s.
Tiempos Nuevos
The cover of an issue of the Spanish anarchist journal from 1937.
With an image of the famous poster by Fontsere’:
Inversions
A theme issue of a French magazine from August, 1923,
focusing on the subject of “inversion” or homosexuality.
I.I.
Idiot International, a counter-culture magazine focusing on politics,
published out of London, England, 1970-1971 –
possibly related to the longer-lived French publication
“L’idiot international”, but the link is unclear.
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