VintageMeld

Happy Birthday today to Mr. Cub, Ernie Banks! The VintageMeld takes a look at Banks’ career in brief, illustrated with images from old sports magazines.

Announcement and excerpt from the latest early film star biography published on our sister site, Alice Joyce, featured in The Silent Collection by Tammy Stone.

On this date in 1880 Thomas Edison was granted a patent for his improvement in electric lamps. The year before that Harper’s Weekly put him on the front cover–you can bid on that magazine now!

Douglas MacArthur was born on this date 1880 so today we take a look back at his life and show some issues of Life with him on the cover plus prices realized.

A video history of Harper’s Weekly with a concentration on several back issues of the popular illustrated magazine from 1879 plus the work of Thomas Nast.

On Inauguration Day we look at collecting Presidents on magazine covers since the first January 20 inauguration in 1937. With estimated values and explanations.

Either I notice the name is the same, or I get an ecstatic email telling me that they’ve been looking for the item forever because so-and-so that it pictures their grandmother or that their great-uncle wrote the article starting on page 57…I can’t tell you how happy it makes me to link people together through their past like that.

On this date in 1907 Variety Magazine published what are considered the first movie reviews. This article looks at two of those movies, reprints one of the reviews, includes a video of a piece from that same period, and more!

Today is the anniversary of Prohibition becoming law of the land, but we use it as a starting point to look at collecting Roaring 20s magazines.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on this date in 1929. This post talks about collecting King and Civil Rights Era magazines with a gallery of magazine covers.

Looking at the anniversary of the Joe DiMaggio – Marilyn Monroe wedding from the collectors’ eye. With images of original wedding day press photos.

Video showing off ‘47 and ‘48: The Magazine of the Year, including a look at 14/16 covers, mention of contents inside and a brief history of the publication.

A detailed look at an 1879 issue of Harper’s Weekly which happens to have today’s date, January 11 on it. With a brief history, contents, illustrations.

The Saturday Evening Post put out its final issue on this date in 1969. This article contains a brief history of the Post along with notes for collectors.

You would think otherwise, but I’ve found that Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) magazines and ephemera are not that highly collected.  In his best known role, as President of the United States during World War I, Wilson made countless appearances not only inside magazines, but on magazine covers as well.  As one of our more intellectual Presidents, [...]