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

[Erica Cathers]

Thanks to everyone so far, and FYI, Peter has reminded me of something else 
at Cornell--their Hearth collection of old home economics materials. Their 
journal list is here:
http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/h/hearth/browse/journals.html

Erica


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From: "Peter Macinnis" <petermacinnis at ozemail.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [PW] Question on periodical archives from pre-digital era


>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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