The publishers, Alphia and Agnes Hart, chose not to copyright it, so the whole thing is online. Only the first year has been proofread and formatted, so the rest needs some attention, but the scans are just a click away if anything's hard to read. posted by kristi at 9:56 PM on May 8, 2008
I wouldn't call it especially important or possibly even interesting, but here is a link to the full text of The Irish Press, which was published in Philadelphia between 1918 and 1922.
Chroncling America at the Library of Congress is in its very early stages, but it has some newspapers up from 1897-1910.
The granddaddy of them all is the NY Times, which has conveniently put its archive up for all the world to google.
I don't know if they have many periodicals, but have you played around with google books yet? There's amazing stuff there. You can go to advanced search and search by, say, keyword and date to get started. Actually, if you put in the keyword "magazine" and then a date range, you get a bunch of periodicals with "magazine" in the title. posted by craichead at 10:14 PM on May 8, 2008
I'm rather partial to the online archives of American Jewess magazine (1895-1899). Mark Twain and Kate Chopin have pieces in there, among others. posted by Asparagirl at 12:28 AM on May 9, 2008
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E and This Magazines are archived in Eclipse, "a free on-line archive focusing on digital facsimiles of the most radical small-press writing from the last quarter century."
Sites for the defunct Lingua Franca and Hermenaut archive enough articles to sustain browsing for some time, although they're far from complete. posted by Cucurbit at 1:20 PM on May 9, 2008
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For various values of interesting, there's The Aberree, all 100+ issues of a monthly magazine published by early adherents of Dianetics, who split off around the time Dianetics became Scientology. To me, it's as interesting for the irreverent tone and slightly wacky take on the times ("Thousands Gather on Desert to Hear Who's Seen the Latest UFO, and of Trickery Used to Keep Public's Ignorance at Official Level"), the cast of characters (including Volney Mathison, who invented the E-meter, and science fiction writer A. E. van Vogt), and the totally great cover art.
The publishers, Alphia and Agnes Hart, chose not to copyright it, so the whole thing is online. Only the first year has been proofread and formatted, so the rest needs some attention, but the scans are just a click away if anything's hard to read.
posted by kristi at 9:56 PM on May 8, 2008