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Pulp Cities

Specific Geographical Locations

Everglades
New York City
100 Years of New York City (sponsored by the New York Times)
Empire State Building
New York Worlds Fair
Niagara Falls
Hoover Dam
Maelstrom
Panama Canal
San Francisco
Golden Gate Bridge
San Francisco Virtual Museum
Hollywood
Historical Hollywood Photographs
Zanzibar Island
Eiffel Tower

Generic Locations

Airport
Aircraft Hanger
Automat
Bridge, Lift
Bridge, Suspension
Bus Terminal
Canal Lock
Carnival
Cemetary
Circus
Coal Mine
Dam
Dock
Grocery Store
Safeway, 1930s and 1940s
Hobo Jungle
Library
Lumber Mill
Movie Studio
Republic Studios Backlot
Movie Locations
Movie Theatre
Museums
Lighthouse
Radio Broadcast Station
Ranch
Railroad Station
Reservoir
Skyscraper
Steel Mill
Subway
Cincinnati Subway -- adbandoned by 1930 (great pics and a 1925 map of the proposed line here)
New York Subway
Treasure Islands
Wharf
World Fairs
Zepplin, on top of
Zoo

Fictitious Locations

Bangalla (The Phantom)
Cathne (Tarzan)
Duchy of Grand Fenwick (The Mouse that Roared)
Fear Cay (Doc Savage)
Hidalgo (Doc Savage)
Kor (She)
Land of Always Night (Doc Savage)
Lost Plateau (I Love A Mystery)
Maple White Land (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Marivellas Islands (Tales of the Gold Monkey)
Opar (Tarzan)
Ruritania (Prisonder of Zenda)
Skull Island (King Kong)
Terror Island (Doc Savage)
Thunder Island (Doc Savage)
Wichinois (Arrowsmith)
Skartaris (The Warlord comic by Mike Grell)
(map 1, map 2, notes - click on "show original post") - courtesy of Jeff Mejia

Miscellaneous Locations


Visit also Pulp Mythology

Seven Wonders of the World
Mysterious Places

Vintage Maps

Hipkiss' Scanned Old Maps
New World Atlas and Gazetteer 1922 Edition

Sorted By Continent

North America

United States
Historical City Maps (mostly Automobile Blue Book)
  • States
California
  • Hollywood
Historical Hollywood Photographs
  • San Francisco
San Francisco Virtual Museum

New York State
  • New York City
Lower Manhattan(1920) and (1934)
Upper Manhattan (1920) and (1934)
100 Years of New York City (sponsored by the New York Times)

Miscellaneous Guides produced by the Federal Writers' Project

Mexico
Mayan Ruins

South America

Pan American Airways System (1933)


Europe

  • England
360-degree Panorama of Stonehenge (courtesy the BBC)

  • Germany
1940s Berlin
German Road Maps

Africa

Great Rift Valley
Zanzibar Island
USGS - Volcanoes of Africa
  • Egypt
Valley of the Kings
National Geographic's Egypt File--With Thanks to Terra Incognita Daily Dispatch!
Rigby's World of Egypt--With Thanks to Terra Incognita Daily Dispatch!
Theban Mapping Project -- A project to map out the Valley of the Kings
PyramidCam -- A real time view of the pyramids
Pocket Guide to Egypt -- Produced by the U.S. Army during WWII, hosted at the Internet Archive



Asia

  • China
Tales of China
Shanghai
Shanghai 1945
Streets of Shanghai (A wiki guide to Shanghai in the 1920's)
Peking (named changed to Beijing in 1949)
Forbidden City Interactive Tour (with music - be warned)--With Thanks to Terra Incognita Daily Dispatch!

Pocket Guide to China -- Produced by the U.S. Army during WWII, hosted at the Internet Archive

  • India
Various maps from the 1890's and 1920's

Australia

Oceania

Antartica




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