On the Newsstands

Simply, photographs of newsstands in former days!

(I like to play "spot the LIFE magazine" for those from 1936 onwards).

Note for those interested: All but two of the Library of Congress ones are FSA/OWI photographs--apparently it was a popular theme.

Dmitri Kessel, LIFE © Time Inc.

A man at a newsstand in Athens, Greece, 1948. Source

Mark Kauffman, LIFE © Time Inc.

A newsstand in Shanghai, 1947. Source

Dmitri Kessel, LIFE © Time Inc.

Another Greek newsstand, 1948. Source

Library of Congress

A foreign language stand, US, 1941. Source

© IWM (D 2951)

A Fleet Street newsstand in London, 1941. Source

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Workers scan the papers while waiting for a trolley, Baltimore, Maryland, 1943. Source

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A NYC newsstand with international papers, 1943. Source

National Library of Ireland

A newsstand at Waterford Train Station, Ireland, 1924. Source

Library of Congress

A Mexican newsstand in San Antonio, Texas, 1939. Source

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Magazines at a newsstand in St. Louis, Missouri, 1939. Source

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A small, eccentric newsstand in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1937. Source

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A NYC newsstand in 1913, photographed by Lewis Hine. Source

Berenice Abbott, New York Public Library

A Manhattan newsstand photographed by Berenice Abbott, 1935. Source

Walter Sanders, LIFE © Time Inc.

A newsstand selling "strange, out-of-town papers" during a New York newspaper strike, 1958. Source

Library of Congress

A newsstand in Chicago, 1940 (lots of LIFE in this one!) Source

Terence Spencer, LIFE © Time Inc.

British TV presenter David Frost (portrayed in Frost/Nixon) stopping for a paper at a newsstand, UK, 1968. Source

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Boys visit the newsstand on their weekly visit to town, Nyssa, Oregon, 1942. Source

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Newsstand in Manchester, New Hampshire, 1937. Source

Alfred Eisenstaedt, LIFE © Time Inc.

A Communist-publication-focused newsstand, NYC, 1937. Source

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A newsstand in Union Station, Chicago, 1943. Source

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The out-of-town section of a newsstand, NYC, 1913, photographed by Lewis Hine. Source

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Heaps of picture magazines at a newsstand in Omaha, Nebraska, 1938. Source