Looking for Fortune magazines
December 25, 2014 4:56 PM Subscribe
Are pre-1940 issues of Fortune Magazine in an on line archive?
Response by poster: I am looking for readable copies. Fortune ran a series called the Background of War. The July 1934 was devoted to Italy with a positive review of Fascism. There is an article on the web that references this piece. "Henry Luce, Fortune and the Attraction of Italian Fascism" by Micheal Augspurger. Very interesting read. The May, 1937 issue (which I have) has a prescient article on Germany and the Nazi party. As aside there is also an advertisement on page 64 by the Soviet Intourst bureau on vacationing in the beautiful Soviet Union for only $15 a day. I want to read the rest of the Background of War series. An index would be very useful in identifying other issues that have this series.
posted by Raybun at 9:14 PM on December 25, 2014
posted by Raybun at 9:14 PM on December 25, 2014
It looks like the commercial databases have digitized Fortune only back to 1992 (so only 1992-present is easily available online) so you may have to use the index below to determine which issues you'll want to read on microform (at your local library most likely) unless you get lucky and find some soul out of the goodness of their hearts digitized and placed online the issues you want.
Using the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, I found six articles from 1937 which are part of the Background of War series. There was one article per issue from March-August. I do not know if there are any other relevant issues from other years, but they do not come up under the search for that series title.
March '37 covered the Spanish Civil War, Germany, and Britain; April covered more of Spain; May covered the rise of the Nazis as you know; June covered le Front Populaire in France; July covered military advances and aviation (sorry, the subject headings and title of article conflict so I'm vague); August covered the Soviet Union and its preparation for war.
posted by librarylis at 9:50 PM on December 25, 2014
Using the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, I found six articles from 1937 which are part of the Background of War series. There was one article per issue from March-August. I do not know if there are any other relevant issues from other years, but they do not come up under the search for that series title.
March '37 covered the Spanish Civil War, Germany, and Britain; April covered more of Spain; May covered the rise of the Nazis as you know; June covered le Front Populaire in France; July covered military advances and aviation (sorry, the subject headings and title of article conflict so I'm vague); August covered the Soviet Union and its preparation for war.
posted by librarylis at 9:50 PM on December 25, 2014
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