My 10 favorite vintage magazine covers collected this year. Their publication dates range from 1916-1997, but all are just as fresh and timely as the day they were first printed.
Happy May Day!
The Masses, April 1917
The Masses was a socialist monthly published from 1911-1917, edited by Max Eastman. Its editors were indicted by the US government in 1917 on charges that they conspired to stop the military draft
Cover illustration: George Hartmann
Source: We Are Fisk
Words & Eggs has a collection of Masses covers here
Black History Month #2: Frank Walts
The Crisis, February 1920
Cover illustration: Frank Walts
The Crisis was founded in 1910 as the magazine of the NAACP. The original name of the magazine was The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races. W.E.B. DuBois was the editor. Frank Walts was the main cover illustrator for The Crisis from 1917-1920. Walts was an African-American artist and illustrator who also did covers for The Masses and other progressive publications.
