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Funded by grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Dickinson College, this site features searchable text and bibliographic metadata for over [ 300 ] American fiction magazines from the early twentieth century. It holds 30,000,000 words, distributed across 65,824 individual pages, 87,744 columns, 818,192 paragraphs, and 3,821,280 column lines. It catalogs 9,904 items by 4,576 authors, including 7,230 stories, 495 poems, and 1,980 items of editorial matter. There are also 7,254 advertisements. We are developing algorithms to search within the documents, compute patterns between them, and return cross-collection comparisons to identify clusters based on term frequencies, topic modeling, sentiment analysis, and combinations of terms using Boolean operators. For now a basic metadata search will locate issues by [TITLE], [PUBLISHER], [EDITOR], or primary [GENRE]. The keyword search is currently set to return individual items by [TITLE], i.e., the stories, poems, and essays within each magazine. And still under development, but functional, a classic full-text search will match all pages containing your [SEARCH TERMS].
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2-Gun Western Novels | standard, pulp | western | bi-monthly | 1937 | Bob O. Erisman | Western Fiction Publishing Co. | 4600 Diversey Avenue | Chicago, IL | United States | 2 | 100 |
Adventure | standard, pulp | adventure | monthly | 1910 | Arthur Hoffman | The Ridgway Company | Spring & Macdougal Streets | New York, NY | United States | 22 | 881 |
Amazing Stories | oversize, pulp | science fiction | monthly | 1926 | Hugo Gernsback | Experimenter Publishing Co. | 53 Park Place | New York, NY | United States | 12 | 609 |
Bedtime Tales | undersize, glossy insert | romance | irregular | c.1935 | Anonymous | D.M. Publishing Co. | Unknown | Wilmington, DE | United States | 1 | Unknown |
The Black Mask | standard, pulp | detective | monthly | 1920 | Joseph T. Shaw | Pro-Distributors Publishing Co. | 25 West 45th Street | New York, NY | United States | 6 | 340 |
Detective Story Magazine | standard, pulp | detective | weekly | 1915 | Frank E. Blackwell | Street & Smith Corp. | 79 7th Avenue | New York, NY | United States | 4 | 1057 |
I Confess | standard, pulp | romance | bi-monthly | 1922 | Elizabeth Sharp | The Dell Publishing Co. | 46 West 24th Street | New York, NY | United States | 1 | 209 |
Live Stories | standard, pulp | romance | monthly | 1913 | Grove E. Wilson | The New Fiction Publishing Co. | 35-37 West 39th Street | New York, NY | United States | 2 | 166 |
Love Story Magazine | standard, pulp | romance | weekly | 1921 | Daisy Bacon | Street & Smith Corp. | 79 7th Avenue | New York, NY | United States | 3 | 1172 |
Night Life Tales | undersize, glossy insert | romance | irregular | c.1935 | Anonymous | D.M. Publishing Co. | Unknown | Wilmington, DE | United States | 1 | Unknown |
Ranch Romances | standard, pulp | western | bi-monthly | 1924 | Fanny Ellsworth | Warner Publications, Inc. | 578 Madison Ave. | New York, NY | United States | 3 | 886 |
Saucy Stories | standard, pulp | romance | monthly | 1916 | Wyndham Martyn | Inter-Continental Publishing Corp. | 25 West 45th Street | New York, NY | United States | 2 | 129 |
The Smart Set | standard, mixed | smart fiction | monthly | 1900 | H.L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan | Smart Set Company, Inc. | 25 West 45th Street | New York, NY | United States | 1 | 365 |
Weird Tales | standard, pulp | weird fiction | monthly | 1923 | Farnsworth Wright | Popular Fiction Publishing Co. | 840 North Michigan Avenue | Chicago, IL | United States | 10 | 279 |
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