Thrilling Love magazine cover, Dec. 1933, couple and football player – Vintage Print
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Step back in time with Thrilling Love magazine cover, Dec. 1933, couple and football player, a historic image rich in period detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Thrilling Love magazine cover, Dec. 1933, couple and football player
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A December 1933 cover of Thrilling Love is a reminder that pulp magazines did not wait for Valentine's Day to sell romance. The title places it among the sensational love-story pulps of the Depression years, when cheap fiction magazines printed lurid, brightly colored covers to catch the eye on newsstands. Here a couple and a football player share the scene, a pairing that hints at the sports-and-sweetheart melodrama common to the genre. Few specifics beyond the title and date are recorded, so the cover is best read as a window onto how romance was packaged for mass audiences in the early 1930s.
| Original scan | 1,433 × 1,968 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif02922_ThrillingloveStoriesbypopulara |
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