Readings: Periodicals

Basic Illustrated Periodicals

Harper’s Weekly (1857-1916)
Harper’s Magazine (1850-cur.)
Harper’s Magazine online (Harper’s cumulative index and images for 1850-1990) The Illustrated London News (1842-1901)
Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing-room Companion (5/3/1851-12/27/1851)
Gleason’s Pictorial (1/3/1852-12/30/1954)
Ballou’s Pictorial (1/6/1855-12/24/1859)
The Welcome Guest [UK] (1858-1861)
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper (1855-1922)
Punch [UK] (1841-cur.)
Puck (1877-1918)
The Judge (1881-1939?)
The New York Times (1851-cur.)
Chicago Tribune (1860-cur.)
Boston Globe (1960-cur.)
Hearst publications (San Francisco Examiner 1889-cur.; Journal American; New York Morning Journal; etc.)
New York World (1860-1931)
Life (1883-cur.)
Time (1923-cur.)
Saturday Evening Post (1821-cur.)
Collier’s (1905-1957)
American Legion Magazine (1926-1981)


Many of older issues of the periodicals above are available in microform at Boston Public Library (BPL) and Harvard University libraries. Check their catalogs. (BPL’s catalog before 1974 is NOT available online. Use the card catalog at BPL.) Some periodicals including Harper’s Weekly, Harper’s Magazine, Harper’s Magazine online, Punch and current periodicals are also available at MIT libraries.