Comments on: more historical mags, please.

Question: more historical mags, please.

Chrischris — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:06:00 -0800

pursuant to this excellent post, what other repositories of historic/interesting/important periodicals exist online?

By: kristi

kristi — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:56:03 -0800

Self-link -

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.

By: craichead

craichead — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:14:59 -0800

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.

By: Rumple

Rumple — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:51:04 -0800

This FPP might be of interest.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:04:59 -0800

Polish periodicals e.g. - Borsszem Jankó.
You might also like Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1868-1961.

By: mumkin

mumkin — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:24:34 -0800

Punch!

By: Asparagirl

Asparagirl — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:28:22 -0800

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.

By: mumkin

mumkin — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:41:13 -0800

Also The Spectator and The Tatler (the 18th c. ones).

By: thomas j wise

thomas j wise — Fri, 09 May 2008 05:41:00 -0800

Another Jewish periodical: The Occident and American Jewish Advocate.

The Quarterly Review Archive

By: mediareport

mediareport — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:08:19 -0800

For literary stuff, the Modernist Journals Project.

By: Cucurbit

Cucurbit — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:20:47 -0800

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.