Vintage Magazines - some cover scans

[Mayor La Trivia]

Hello all. This is my first post. I have a large collection of vintage magazines from the 1920s, 30s and 40s. A few days ago I scanned the covers of some
Liberty Magazines and want to share them with you. I scan in two segments then stitch them together to create a single image.

 

[dhermann1]

Cool! Wasn't it Liberty who made the famous survey that said FDR would lose the 1932 election, and practically put themselves out of business as a result? Too bad. Neat cover art. Thanx for posting.

 

[kpreed]

Great covers! Thank You for sharing .:eusa_clap

 

[Twitch]

What I like is the old ads in vintage magazines for all sorts of esoteric and inventive stuff of course at crazy low prices compared with today.

 

[PADDY]

Love it.

Very Elvin(ish). I just love this artwork :eusa_clap THANKYOU!!

 

[Fletch]

Cool! Wasn't it Liberty who made the famous survey that said FDR would lose the 1932 election, and practically put themselves out of business as a result?

I think it was the Literary Digest, and the 1936 election.

Supposedly LD's mistake was using auto registration and phone company records - not a representative sample of the voting public in 1936, when there were an awful lot of people without cars or phones. So many, in fact, that the results shook out like this:
LD Survey: Alf Landon by 57%
Popular Vote: Roosevelt by 60%

Interestingly enough, '36 was the first election year for George Gallup, who predicted FDR would win by randomly polling just 5,000 people. LD's sample? 2 million.

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[Novella]

Fantastic covers - thanks for posting them!

 

[LizzieMaine]

Great covers!

Liberty was a fun magazine -- sort of a downscale Colliers, crossed with True Story, by way of a tabloid newspaper. It was best known as the magazine that rated every story and article with a reading time, telling you it should take exactly 8 minutes and 42 seconds to read "Advice To The Ladies, by Princess Alexandra Kropotkin," or whatever. Some really nifty articles, especially in the 30s, when it published a LOT of firsthand material on the Lindbergh kidnapping case.