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American Periodicals Series ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY

Access: On-Site Access Only

Description: Digitized images of the pages of over 1,100 American magazines and journals published between 1740 and 1900. Covers special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository ; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal ; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like The Dial , Puck , and McClure's .

List of LC holdings for other editions / titles in the American Periodical Series.

Coverage: 1740-1900

Subject(s)
E-Journals, Books & Newspapers
Full Text Resources (Selective)
History, Genealogy & Archives
Humanities
Literature & Language
Newspapers (Historical)
Subscription Database List

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Related Links
Making of America : Cornell
Making of America : Michigan ** http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/ **
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