Here are some links to historical or archival material that shows newsstands (and other media retail spaces of interest) the ‘way they were’.
This well
-known photograph from 1935 by Berenice Abbott shows what the New York newsstand looked like during the great depression.
This video is from the Prelinger Archives and was produced in 1940. It gives a sense not only of how newsstands in America looked back then, but also of some of the production values shaping magazines.
