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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, pulpwesternbi-monthly1937Bob O. ErismanWestern Fiction Publishing Co. 4600 Diversey AvenueChicago, ILUnited States2100
Adventure standard, pulpadventuremonthly1910Arthur HoffmanThe Ridgway Company Spring & Macdougal StreetsNew York, NYUnited States22881
Amazing Stories oversize, pulpscience fictionmonthly1926Hugo GernsbackExperimenter Publishing Co. 53 Park PlaceNew York, NYUnited States12609
Bedtime Tales undersize, glossy insertromanceirregularc.1935AnonymousD.M. Publishing Co. UnknownWilmington, DEUnited States1Unknown
The Black Mask standard, pulpdetectivemonthly1920Joseph T. ShawPro-Distributors Publishing Co. 25 West 45th StreetNew York, NYUnited States6340
Detective Story Magazine standard, pulpdetectiveweekly1915Frank E. BlackwellStreet & Smith Corp. 79 7th AvenueNew York, NYUnited States41057
I Confess standard, pulpromancebi-monthly1922Elizabeth SharpThe Dell Publishing Co. 46 West 24th StreetNew York, NYUnited States1209
Live Stories standard, pulpromancemonthly1913Grove E. WilsonThe New Fiction Publishing Co. 35-37 West 39th StreetNew York, NYUnited States2166
Love Story Magazine standard, pulpromanceweekly1921Daisy BaconStreet & Smith Corp. 79 7th AvenueNew York, NYUnited States31172
Night Life Tales undersize, glossy insertromanceirregularc.1935AnonymousD.M. Publishing Co. UnknownWilmington, DEUnited States1Unknown
Ranch Romances standard, pulpwesternbi-monthly1924Fanny EllsworthWarner Publications, Inc. 578 Madison Ave.New York, NYUnited States3886
Saucy Stories standard, pulpromancemonthly1916Wyndham MartynInter-Continental Publishing Corp. 25 West 45th StreetNew York, NYUnited States2129
The Smart Set standard, mixedsmart fictionmonthly1900H.L. Mencken, George Jean NathanSmart Set Company, Inc. 25 West 45th StreetNew York, NYUnited States1365
Weird Tales standard, pulpweird fictionmonthly1923Farnsworth WrightPopular Fiction Publishing Co. 840 North Michigan AvenueChicago, ILUnited States10279

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