Don't you wish you had a time machine?

Jump in, set the dial and flash back to the first half of this century. You could pick up new issues of your favorite pulp as they hit the newsstand. Or see the sights of the period.

Since time machines are pretty hard to come by, let Pulp.History take you back. We are collecting a variety of images that document the period of the pulps. For starters, you can take a stroll to see what was on the newsstands of the 1930s and 1940s, or see what Midtown New York looked like as The Shadow was beginning to wage war against the underworld.

View a selection of vintage pulp racks

Thanks to the federal goverment’s interest in documenting its relief efforts during the Great Depression, we can have a glimpse of what it was like to peruse the newsstands for the latest pulp magazines. Photographers from the Farm Security Administration (which later became the Office of War Information) fanned out across the United States to document the recovery. On occasions, their lenses focused on newsstands. Many of the pulp rack photos featured here came from their cameras, while others were donated by pulp fans.

View a panorama of Midtown New York, 1931

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We will be adding bits of history as we get them. Do you have something you would like to share with other pulp fans? Drop us a note.