[PW] Question on periodical archives from pre-digital era

[Peter Macinnis]

I am not sure if this fits, as the digital part is incidental to the 
page images, but I have recently used the "Making of America" archives, 
mainly 'Scientific American', through Cornell: you can see them at 
http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/

Googling that phrase will flush out a lot more at other institutions. 
The Scientific American stuff which I know best comes in several sizes 
of page images, plus PDF, plus a haphazard unproofed OCR version which 
is used for indexing.  I think the others also follow this general plan.

Cornell offers the following:

     * The American Missionary (1878 - 1901)
     * The American Whig Review (1845 - 1852)
     * The Atlantic Monthly (1857 - 1901)
     * The Bay State Monthly (1884 - 1886)
     * The Century (1881 - 1899)
     * The Continental Monthly (1862 - 1864)
     * The Galaxy (1866 - 1878)
     * Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1850 - 1899)
     * The International Monthly Magazine (1850 - 1852)
     * The Living Age (1844 - 1900)
     * Manufacturer and Builder (1869 - 1894)
     * The New England Magazine (1886 - 1900)
     * The New-England Magazine (1831 - 1835)
     * New Englander (1843 - 1892)
     * The North American Review (1815 - 1900)
     * The Old Guard (1863 - 1867)
     * Punchinello (1870)
     * Putnam's Monthly (1853 - 1870)
     * Scientific American (1846 - 1869)
     * Scribner's Magazine (1887 - 1896)
     * Scribner's Monthly (1870 - 1881)
     * The United States Democratic Review (1837 - 1859)

Michigan has

     * American Jewess 1895-1899 (hosted on behalf of the Jewish Women's 
Archive)
     * Appleton's 1869-1881 (2 series)
     * Catholic World 1865-1901
     * DeBow's 1846-1869 + 1952 index (3 series)
     * Garden and Forest 1888-1897 (hosted on behalf of the Library of 
Congress)
     * Journal of the United States Association of Charcoal Iron Workers 
1880-1891
     * Ladies Repository 1841-1876 (3 series)
     * The Old Guard 1864
     * Overland Monthly 1868-1900 (2 series)
     * Princeton Review 1831-1882 (3 series)
     * Southern Literary Messenger 1835-1864 + 1936 Contributor index
     * Southern Quarterly Review 1842-1857 (3 series)
     * Vanity Fair 1860-1862


cheers

peter macinnis


Erica Cathers wrote:
> This is for me, so no rush.
> 
> Does anyone know of a comprehensive list of newspapers and magazines which 
> provide very old full-text articles in digital format, preferably free?
> 
> So far, I know of Time magazine (archives online back to 1923, free), New 
> York Times (as far back as 1851, some free), The New Yorker (can purchase a 
> disk that goes back to 1925), and Atlantic Monthly (back to 1857 online, for 
> a fee).
> 
> We only have our local newspaper on microfilm, and mainly depend on 
> EbscoHost for other periodical back issues--but that doesn't go back far 
> enough for what our students need for history projects sometimes.
> 
> TIA,
> Erica Cathers
> Gloucester City (NJ) Public Library 
> 
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