What's New? — Our Update History

4 September 2008: Set up new category for Business and Finance magazines, and started it off with six 1930 issues of FORTUNE. Added six new 1884-1919 covers from SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, and an interior photo indicating how the covers were constructed. All from Steve Kirch. Added the May, 1923 cover of FRUIT, GARDEN AND HOME, giving us a complete run of this title, which is now known as BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS.
2 September 2008: Added thirteen new 1905-1915 covers from the syndicated SUNDAY MAGAZINE, ten of them from John Squires. Added three 1918 issues of LESLIE'S WEEKLY, and three ads for Murad Cigarettes from their back covers; also, a 1918 McCALL'S MAGAZINE; all from Mariangela Buch.
27 August 2008: Added new Pipe Tobacco ad from Mariangela Buch, and a Magazine ad for Gernsback's 1922 titles from Steve Davis.
26 August 2008: Set up a new Ads category for Bicycles and Motorcycles, and started it off with eight 1890's Bicycle ads from eBay seller more-vintage-ads (processed for clarity in Photoshop). Set up new Ads sections for Automobile Tires, Parts and Accessories, and Studebaker Automobiles. Then added nine automobile-related ads from same. And four new Murad and Fatima Cigarette ads, from Mariangela Buch.
25 August 2008: Added a cover and eight advertisements from the June 1927 PEOPLE'S HOME JOURNAL, magazine donated by Thomas Howard. Added Advertisement sections for Chevrolet cars and trucks, Major Appliances in the household, Soups and Stews, and Ingredients for cooking with.
24 August 2008: Added new section of a Variety of Travel Magazines, beginning with an obscure title OCEAN WIRELESS NEWS. Added ads for a soft drinks, a typewriter, Gulf oil, and three magazines. Added a 1925 page from POPULAR RADIO describing how it incorporated WIRELESS AGE. All from Steve Davis.
23 August 2008: Added new and greatly improved images for a number of technical magazines, including THE EXPERIMENTER, PRACTICAL ELECTRICS, two RADIO-CRAFT, six RADIO NEWS, and two covers and a bit of publishing history for SCIENCE AND MECHANICS. Also, a new 1911 JUDGE cover. Also, three ads for radio/television products, including the first in a new Ads section for early Television. All from Michael Holley. Set up new weekly magazine section for the AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY, and Ads section for personal care Soap; and added a 1917 AMERICAN WOMAN and a pipe tobacco ad, all from Mariangela Buch.
20 August 2008: Added yet another thirty-five new covers from SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, from Steve Kirch. Set up new Advertisements categories for Household Items (laundry soap, draperies, that sort of thing) and Clothing and Fashions. Set up new Ads section for Women's Toiletries. Added eleven ads from 1912-1926.
19 August 2008: Added five new 1912-18 ads for Murad Cigarettes, from Mariangela Buch.
16 August 2008: Improved image for a 1919 ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER.
5 August 2008: Set up new ad section for Oil, Gas, and Lubricants, starting with a 1922 Gulf Oil ad from Steve Davis. Added 21 late SEXOLOGY covers, from an anonymous donor.
3 August 2008: Added new covers for AMERICAN MAGAZINE, DELINEATOR, HOLLAND'S, and LIBERTY. Added new ads for Candy and Treats, Soft Drinks, and Pens and Writing. Set up new title AMERICAN SUNDAY MONTHLY MAGAZINE. All from Mariangela Buch.
31 July 2008: Set up new Category for magazines about Art and Design (and Antiques), and began first section Artistic Magazines with an early Will H. Bradley cover for THE ECHO and an unsigned cover for FOUR O'CLOCK. Also added a new section for Literary Magazines, and cross-referenced FOUR O'CLOCK there as well. Added the first issue of LUCIFER'S LANTERN to the section of Political Magazines (though one could argue for Religious Magazines as well). Added the first issue of THE YELLOW KID to the AINSLEE'S MAGAZINE section, which is where it actually belongs; also put a copy in Early Humor Magazines, because that's where people will look for it. All of these sent us by Steven Lamazow.
29 July 2008: Added 39 new covers and ads, all from Mariangela Buch. For advertisements, set up a new Sections for loose Tobacco for Pipes and Rolling, for Bread and Baking, for Pens and Writing, and for Automobiles for Packard, for Electric Cars, and from a Variety of smaller manufacturers; five new ads for Soft Drinks; four new ads for Breakfast foods; five new ads for Candy and Treats; two new ads for Beer; one ad for Health Foods; and one ad for Dental Care products. For magazine cover images, seven issues of LESLIE'S WEEKLY, and one issue each of the LADIES' HOME JOURNAL, LIBERTY, SUCCESS, and the WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION.
23 July 2008: Added 27 new 1916-17 issues of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, from Steve Kirch.
21 July 2008: Set up new title AMERICAN BOY in the Youth, Children, and Kids category. Added two 1930's COUNTRY GENTLEMAN issues, including the special package for the 100th Anniversary issue. Set up new Ads Categories for Toys and Games, and for Sports and Guns. Set up new Ads section for Dental Care products in the Personal Care category. Added ads for Radio Experimenters and Breakfast!. All from Steve Davis.
16 July 2008: Set up a new Category: News and Current Events Magazines, and started it off with three titles aimed at the African-American public; from Steven Lamazow.
15 July 2008: Set up new sections for Television Magazines (in the Movies, TV, and Radio category), Early Monthly Magazines, Early Women's Magazines, and a Variety of Romance Pulps. Added a new title to Rare Pulps, and a new title to A Variety of Spicy Pulps. Added greatly improved early television covers in Radio News, and Short Wave and Television Magazines by Gernsback. All of these were sent us by Steven Lamazow. Added two new images to A Variety of Spicy Pulps and one to Variety of Crime, Mystery, and Detective Pulps, all three found and restored for us by Beau Collier.
11 July 2008: Set up Advertisements Category for Book and Magazine Ads, and began it with a Pulp Magazine Ad for SNAPPY STORIES. Set up Advertisements Section for Health Foods in the Food and Beverages Category, and began it with an ad for Malt-Nutrine. Added eleven early Soft Drink Ads, three Murad Cigarette Ads, and covers for JUDGE and GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. All the foregoing from Mariangela Buch. Set up Advertisements Category for Personal Care Items, and began it with a 1915 J. B. Williams ad for Men's Toiletries and Shaving, from Steve Kirch. Set up Advertisements Category for Pens and Office Supplies, and started it with four ads for mimeographs and duplicators in the Office Equipment section; set up section for the famous monthly CENTURY MAGAZINE; and started these off with material from the MagazineArt.org Archives.
9 July 2009: Added seven early issues of the syndicated SUNDAY MAGAZINE, from John D. Squires.
8 July 2008: Added new title SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT, covering the supplemental sections issued to discuss SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN stories in more dept.
6 July 2008: Added two issues of LIBERTY, four color ads for Adams Black Jack and California Fruit Gum, and four ads for Coca-Cola, all from Mariangela Buch.
5 July 2008: Added three new titles that we will be beginning with examples sent in by Steve Kirch: LESLIE'S WEEKLY, NATURE, and the PACIFIC MONTHLY. Added another new title, with first examples from multiple sources: MODERN MECHANICS / MECHANIX. Added new Advertisements Categories for Automobile ads and Tobacco Products ads. Modified the Home Page to replace book listings with easier-to-use direct links to General and Pulp magazines, and Magazine Ads.
3 July 2008: Added 16 early covers from SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, and two back-cover ads from the same magazine wherein the ad continues or references the front cover, all from Steve Kirch.
30 June 2008: Added ten new 1905-1915 covers from the syndicated SUNDAY MAGAZINE, from John Squires and a variety of eBay sellers. Added publishing history and profile page for the Canadian SF pulp magazine UNCANNY TALES.
29 June 2008: Added two new 1930's POPULAR SCIENCE from Steve Davis. Added 13 early covers from SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, and three issues of MOTOR, from Steve Kirch.
26 June 2008: Added new title OPEN ROAD FOR BOYS, in the Youth, Children, and Kids' Magazines Category, and started it out with 17 beautiful 1930's covers from Steve Kirch. Added a 1902 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Supplement issue from Steve Davis.
25 June 2008: Added the February 1930 RADIO-CRAFT cover, from a scan done for us by Hans Schantz. Added two new and five greatly improved 1930 issues of RADIO-CRAFT, from photos of the copyright set at the Library of Congress.
16 June 2008: Added two 1878 cover/title illustrations from SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, a 1920 QST and a 1931 SCIENCE AND INVENTION, all from Steve Davis. Added a new advertisements Category, Radio, Television, Phonographs, and Recordings, and set up sections for Radio Sets, and for Radio Experimenters and Constructions; started them off with ads from RADIO NEWS, also from Steve Davis. Added a 1931 MOTOR, and two company house organs, DODGE IDEA and MOHAWK MAGAZINE, all in the Trade Magazine Category, from Steve Kirch. Added three early LADIES' HOME JOURNAL covers and a 1912 SATURDAY EVENING POST cover from Sara Novak.
14 June 2008: Added 17 more new early issues and 5 major upgrades of LIFE, the Humor Magazine, from Mary Conti. Added the June, 1905 issue of DELINEATOR from Sandra Hardesty.
12 June 2008: Added four early issues of LIFE, the Humor Magazine, from Mary Conti. Added 24 wonderful SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN covers from Steve Kirch.
11 June 2008: We've been offline for a few days after a serious disk crash. But we have a bunch of new covers lined up to put online, and many, many more to photoshop and upload.
4 June 2008: Added a short biographical/links article on artist Howard V. Brown, who did many of the covers for the technical and scientific magazines you'll find on this site.
3 June 2008: Added 12 more new SUNDAY MAGAZINE covers from John D. Squires.
30 May 2008: Added 21 new covers from the syndicated SUNDAY MAGAZINE supplements 1905-1910, with 17 of them scanned for us by John D. Squires and 4 from eBay sellers. And some more Food and Beverage Ads.
27 May 2008: Added some more ads! Back in the cover image Division, added some ancillary material—a postcard from 1909 announcing a delay in the production of the February issue of EVERYBODY'S MAGAZINE. From time to time we add interesting little backgrounders like this one, especially when they include illustration art of the period. We don't know why the issue was delayed. By the way, this is our first item from eBay seller millcliff. Added more improved replacement issues: a 1926 SCIENCE AND INVENTION, a 1922 QST and a RADIO NEWS from 1926, from scans by Steve Davis.

22 May 2008: Set up new Ads Division of the website, presenting advertisements with artistic design and layout from the period. The first Category to go online is Food and Beverages. Yum.

21 May 2008: Replaced 21 issues of RADIO NEWS from the 1920's with new images from detailed scans by Steve Davis.
13 May 2008: Added a YOUTH'S COMPANION and a GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, both from Mariangela Buch.
12 May 2008: Added seven more covers from SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, scanned for us by Steve Kirch.
8 May 2008: Added a very large number of cover images from Steve Kirch: a 1933 AMERICAN MAGAZINE, a 1905 COLLIER'S WEEKLY, a 1931 COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, three late issues of DELINEATOR, three 1920's issues of the DUPONT MAGAZINE, four issues of HOME ARTS, a 1925 issue of JUDGE, three issues of NEEDLECRAFT, two more 1905 issues of SUCCESS, and certainly not least, thirteen issues of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN.
6 May 2008: Added a rare early cover from PHYSICAL CULTURE, from Clare Grana.
16 April 2008: Added a new title, YOUTH'S COMPANION, in the "Youth, Children, and Kid's Magazines" category, and started it off with five great covers scanned by Mariangela Buch (who also supplied a new scan of a 1904 McCLURES). Added sixteen greatly improved cover images, from full scans by Steve Davis, of RADIO NEWS. Added three new covers from SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, scanned by Steve Kirch.
12 April 2008: We upgraded to the latest release of the Gallery2 software! A few technical glitches. About 2% of the images aren't coming up when you click the thumbnail; if this happens to you (you'll get a message that an error occurred), please send us e-mail telling which image(s) fail to show.
5 April 2008: Added new title SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the Popular Science and Technology category, and started it with two great covers from Steve Kirch.
2 April 2008: Added five 1905 issues of SUCCESS, from Steve Kirch.
31 March 2008: Added four new issues of POPULAR RADIO, and two improved issues of RADIO NEWS, from Steve Davis.
29 March 2008: Added new title FRONTIER in the Western Pulp Category, beginning with a 1926 issue restored by Beau Collier.
28 March 2008: Added very early POPULAR RADIO from Steve Davis. Added second issue of PRACTICAL ELECTRICS, from the copyright set at the Library of Congress.
20 March 2008: Added new title, the SHRINE MAGAZINE, placed in the Category for Monthly Magazines. Added three issues of Gernsback's THE EXPERIMENTER, and the last issue of POPULAR RADIO, from Steve Davis. Added three very early issues of PEOPLE'S HOME JOURNAL, a 1917 WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION and a 1907 LADIES' HOME JOURNAL, all in the in the Women's Magazines Category and all from Mariangela Buch.
14 March 2008: Added 1927 McCALL'S and 1926 MODERN PRISCILLA from Mariangela Buch.
12 March 2008: Added new Category, Travel Magazines, and started it off with a 1914 issue of TRAVEL (what better way to start?). Added new title VOGUE in the Women's Magazines Category. Added new title SUCCESS in the Mass Monthlies Category.
11 March 2008: Added new title, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST, in the newly retitled Weekly Magazines Category. It's about time we did; the SEP is arguably the most famous American magazine ever published. Twelve from Mariangela Buch, and a couple from elsewhere.
10 March 2008: Added a new title, POPULAR AVIATION, to the Popuar Science and Technology Category. Added two 1930's issues of AMERICAN PHOTO-ENGRAVER to the Variety Collection of Trade Magazines, courtesy of Steve Kirch.
7 March 2008: Added a rare 1931 issue of TELEVISION NEWS, in the collection Short Wave and Television Magazines by Gernsback, and a 1938 POPULAR SCIENCE, from Brad Hardy. Added a 1925 RADIO AGE, from Steve Davis, and a 1925 RADIO BROADCAST, in the Variety Collection of Radio Magazines. Added a new 1931 SCIENCE AND MECHANICS, and greatly improved copies of a rare 1924 EXPERIMENTER, a 1943 RADIO-CRAFT, a 1928 RADIO LISTENER'S GUIDE, and six 1930 and 1938 covers from RADIO NEWS; all of these from Michael Holley.
4 March 2008: Added two new FILM FUN issues from Mark Forer.
26 February 2008: Added a fine 1902 COLLIER'S WEEKLY, restored by Beau Collier. [No, I don't think there is a connection.] Added a 1914 LADIES' HOME JOURNAL from Mariangela Buch, and three issues of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING — one from Mariangela, and two from photographs taken at the University of California Libraries.
24 February 2008: Added two more 1913/14 McCALL'S MAGAZINE covers from Mariangela Buch. Added new Category for Specialized Magazines (unique or just plain weird titles that don't fit in our other Categories) and started it off with one instance in the Variety package.
23 February 2008: Added new title, OUR BOYS PRIZE BOOK in the Category Youth, Children, and Kid's Magazines. Added six new 1931 medium-resolution covers from LIFE (the humor magazine), from eBay sellers.
22 February 2008: Set up new title, RED CROSS MAGAZINE, in the Mass Monthly Category, and started it off with five high-resolution covers. Added new 1913 McCALL'S MAGAZINE cover. All of these are from Mariangela Buch.
21 February 2008: Modified Album layout to add a link tree to the left sidebar; now the viewer can go directly from one magazine album to any other album, in any Category. Wow! Added a 1927 FILM FUN that took Mark Forer 19 years to find. Added another 1912 McCALL'S MAGAZINE cover from Mariangela Buch. Added three early issues of LADIES' HOME JOURNAL from various eBay sellers. Added a nice W. T. Benda illustration from a 1922 issue of LIFE (the humor magazine).
19 February 2008: Added seven more early issues of QST, in low resolution, from a variety of eBay sellers. Added 1912 McCALL'S MAGAZINE and 1914 LADIES' HOME JOURNAL covers from Mariangela Buch. Added a new 1918 EVERYDAY ENGINEERING and three new, much improved 1917 ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER covers from Steve Davis.
12 February 2008: Added twenty-seven more early issues of QST; ten of them from various eBay sellers, and seventeen of them in high resolution, from the collection of Steve Davis.
5 February 2008: Added thirty rare early issues of QST; a 1925 issue of RADIO BROADCAST and a 1917 issue of RADIO AMATEUR in the collection Variety of Early Radio Magazines; a late RADIO NEWS; and a 1923 POPULAR RADIO from Steve Davis. Added a rare GAY LIFE STORIES (1930's?) in the Variety of Spicy Pulps Collection.
31 January 2008: Added new title, HOME ARTS, in the Women's Magazines Category, and started it with a 1937 issue from Sharon Marek. Added thirteen new covers from POPULAR RADIO from Steve Davis. Added a 1947 ADVENTURE and a 1932 issue of AMERICAN MAGAZINE from Beau Collier. Added a 1901 JUDGE from Scott Allison, first of several.
25 January 2008: Set up new titles: MODERN HOMEMAKING, THE HOUSEHOLD MAGAZINE, NEEDLECRAFT, and COMFORT, all in the Category Women's Magazines. Set up COUNTRY GENTLEMAN in the Farm Magazines Category. All these new titles, and two new, later issues of WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION, are from scans made for us by Sharon Marek. Added a 1929 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING cover from Mariangela Buch.
21 January 2008: Set up new title POPULAR RADIO in the Popular Science and Technology Category, and filled it with five new covers from Steve Davis, and the 21 covers previously found in the collection A Variety of Early Radio Magazines. Added a 1930 cover from THEATRE, from Richard Bredahl, and a 1916 TODAY'S HOUSEWIFE, a 1930 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, and a 1907 LADIES' HOME JOURNAL cover from Mariangela Buch.
12 January 2008: Added 1918 and 1930 covers from MODERN PRISCILLA, another new 1926 FILM FUN from Mark Forer, and two early covers from LADIES' HOME JOURNAL and another fine 1925 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING from Mariangela Buch.
11 January 2008: Added eight rare 1929-31 covers from BLACK MASK courtesy of Dave Reynolds. Added five late covers from RADIO-CRAFT from Michael Holley, the 1930 RADIO NEWS "Amateur's Handibook" from Dave Hunter, and a 1910 McCALL'S MAGAZINE from Jody Green.
8 January 2008: Added another new 1926 FILM FUN from Mark Forer, four new 1905 SUNDAY MAGAZINE covers from John D. Squires, eight greatly improved 1917-22 issues of the pulp ADVENTURE from Bob Correll, and a fine 1925 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING from Mariangela Buch.
4 January 2008: Added new category, Sports Pulps, and began it with a fine cover from FIGHT STORIES, courtesy of Beau Collier. Added new title ST. NICHOLAS, in the Category Youth, Children and Kids. Added a 1935 issue of ADVENTURE. from Bob Correll. Added one fine 1917 and one not-so-fine 1919 issue of WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION.
30 December 2007: Added eleven covers from the syndicated SUNDAY MAGAZINE collection, all from John D. Squires. Added yet another beautiful 1926 FILM FUN from Mark Forer.
28 December 2007: Added a nice 1914 Z. P. Nikolaki issue of MOTOR from Mariangela Buch, and seventeen other early issues, from a variety of eBay sellers.
26 December 2007: Added new title THE DESIGNER, in the Category Women's Magazines. Added a new 1926 FILM FUN from Mark Forer.
20 December 2007: Added four new issues of WIRELESS AGE to the collection A Variety of Early Radio Magazines, from Steve Davis.
18 December 2007: Added a new Category, Romance Pulps, and started it with a 1934 Modest Stein cover from LOVE STORY, processed for us by Beau Collier. Added a rare 1934 Spicy Pulp from Cimmerian32, and rare McCALL'S MAGAZINE and THE LADIES' WORLD covers from Liesbeth Hehemann.
3 December 2007: Added a 1926 FILM FUN from Mark Forer and two mid-1920's GOOD HOUSEKEEPING from photographs taken at the Library of Congress.
1 December 2007: Added a 1922 issue of AMERICAN MAGAZINE, and two more 1916 issues of EVERYDAY MECHANICS from Steve Davis.
27 November 2007: Added five new and two improved early issues of the Adventure Pulp ADVENTURE, from Rob Preston, with an additional ten new and two improved issues from John Desbin's sales stock. Added a very early FILM FUN from Beau Collier, and improved 1927 and 1930 covers SCIENCE AND INVENTION from Steve Davis and an eBay seller. Added a new 1917 TODAY'S HOUSEWIFE cover from Mariangela Buch.
24 November 2007: Added new Category Spicy Pulps and began with a nice variety of images from a range of pulp titles. Added two rare 1927 issues of PARIS AND HOLLYWOOD to our package of Movie Fan Magazines.
23 November 2007: Added 15 new issues of McCALL'S MAGAZINE from the 1920's, courtesy of art dealer Robert Lewis, and 4 more from the collection of artist Pat Davis. Added an early LADIES' HOME JOURNAL and in issue of METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE from Sara Novak.
19 November 2007: Added two early issues of LADIES' HOME JOURNAL from Mariangela Buch, a 1920 McCLURE'S MAGAZINE from the collection of Pat Davis, one new and five greatly improved covers from EVERYDAY ENGINEERING, and a 1925 FILM FUN cover from Mark Forer.
15 November 2007: Updated our list of artists by magazine issue with hundreds of new issues, and reorganized it for clarity. It's a bit long, now, so wait for it to load. Added yet another beautiful FILM FUN cover from Mark Forer.
11 November 2007: Added two new 1924 FILM FUN covers from Mark Forer. Added two new and four improved EVERYDAY ENGINEERING covers from Steve Davis and Lloyd Schubert.
5 November 2007: Added a new 1897 cover from McCLURE'S MAGAZINE, image-processed by Beau Collier, and 3 new and 2 greatly improved covers from EVERYDAY ENGINEERING.
31 October 2007: Added 8 greatly improved covers from EVERYDAY ENGINEERING.
25 October 2007: Added new 1905 issue of WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION from Mariangela Buch, and a 1935 issue of ADVENTURE from Beau Collier. Added 5 greatly improved 1917/18 covers from ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER.
23 October 2007: Added new Category: Horror, Terror, and Shudder Pulps, and started it off with two nice covers from DIME MYSTERY MAGAZINE. Added new title LIBERTY in the Mass Weeklies Category. Added new Coll cover in the SUNDAY MAGAZINE collection.
19 October 2007: Added new Category: Western Pulps, and began it with an issue of WESTERN STORY restored by Beau Collier. Added a new collection, a Variety of Crime, Mystery, and Detective Pulps, and kicked it off with three covers restored by volunteers Beau Collier and Cimmerian32. Added a new collection, a Variety of Trade Magazines, in the Trade Magazines and Trade Journals category. Added a new 1916 scan of ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER.
17 October 2007: Added ten new issues of POPULAR RADIO and a new issue of WIRELESS AGE to the collection A Variety of Early Radio Magazines, two greatly improved cover scans of Gernsback's SCIENCE AND INVENTION, and an improved RADIO REVIEW to the collection Gernsback's Other Radio Magazines; all these from Steve Davis.
2 October 2007: Added a new Variety Collection of Science and Technology Magazines in the Category Popular Science and Technology. Added the April, 1911 issue of MODERN ELECTRICS (with the first part of Ralph 124C 41+), two new covers from SCIENCE AND MECHANICS, and two new covers from the nationally distributed SUNDAY MAGAZINE newspaper supplements (which we started earlier but forgot to mention).
29 September 2007: Added new title QST, the amateur radio magazine, in the Popular Science and Technology Category, beginning with a couple of issues from 1924; also a new issue of WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION, a 1919 issue of LIFE (the humor magazine), a 1917 and a 1918 issue of ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER, a 1912 issue of MODERN ELECTRICS, one of the missing issues of PRACTICAL ELECTRICS, and a 1930 issue of RADIO-CRAFT.
22 September 2007: Added one new and four improved issues of EVERYDAY ENGINEERING, an improved issue of RADIO NEWS, and issues of WIRELESS AGE, RADIO, and three new issues of RADIO WORLD in the collection A Variety of Early Radio Magazines, all from Steve Davis.
10 September 2007: Added new pulp Category for Specialized Pulps, which are pulps aimed at narrow groups or with unique kinds of stories. Started this Category off with three issues of RAILROAD STORIES (with many variations in title, but always the same magazine) and two rare issues of GHOST STORIES. Added two new issues of MODERN PRISCILLA, one from Mariangela Buch and one from a photograph taken at the Library of Congress.
9 September 2007: Added 7 new issues, 1918-1920, of EVERYDAY ENGINEERING, scanned by Steve Davis. Added another 1924 issue of JUDGE.
3 September 2007: Added new Category for Military, Army, Navy, and Air Pulps, and started it out with a couple of issues of AIR STORIES. Added another 1924 issue of JUDGE and a better copy of an AINSLEE'S issue.
29 August 2007: Added new title MOTOR, with five examples to start, in the Category Trade Magazines, Also, we added three more issues of JUDGE, three more issues of HOLLAND'S, and two 1909 issues of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, all from Mariangela Buch.
26 August 2007: Added three issues of LADIES' HOME JOURNAL, four issues of McCALL'S MAGAZINE, and two issues of JUDGE.
23 August 2007: Added magazine profile / history pages for LIFE (the humor magazine) and TODAY'S HOUSEWIFE. Added a 1919 TODAY'S HOUSEWIFE, a 1927 GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, and two issues of JUDGE, all from Mariangela Buch.
21 August 2007: Added the remaining 26 issues from 1887 of LIFE, the Humor Magazine, and found original artists for most of these. Added an early FILM FUN cover from Mark Forer, and a beautiful 1923 issue of TODAY'S HOUSEWIFE from Mariangela Buch.
16 August 2007: Added 30 issues of LIFE, the Humor Magazine, scanned by Mark Wiard; these are four issues 1913-1917, and the entire first half of the early year 1877. Also added one further new and many improved issues of LIFE.
30 July 2007: Set up new title, THE HOUSEWIFE, with a couple of images from eBay sellers. this magazine was merged into TODAY'S MAGAZINE in 1917. We've added a profile and history of TODAY'S MAGAZINE / TODAY'S HOUSEWIFE in the Magazines division.
29 July 2007: Set up new titles, FARM JOURNAL AND SUCCESSFUL FARMING, in the Farm Magazines Category. Added four 1913-17 issues of LIFE, the Humor Magazine from Mark Wiard, and a 1914 issue of McCALL'S MAGAZINE and a 1911 issue of THE DELINEATOR, both from Mariangela Buch.
23 July 2007: Set up new Category, Farm Magazines, with first entry COUNTRY HOME (just a start in this new area). Set up new title THE DANCE, with fifteen stunning covers, in the Category Music, Theater, Stage, Drama, And Dance. Added six early JUDGE covers from new volunteer Wes Vogler.
22 July 2007: Set up new title McCLURE'S MAGAZINE in the Category Mass Circulation Monthlies, with covers from Stanford University libraries and from Mariangela Buch. Added a late cover from LIFE, the Humor Magazine photoshopped by Doug Allewell; four covers from PHYSICAL CULTURE from DreamHaven Books' stock; also added an issue of WOMAN'S WORLD, three issues of METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE and three issues of TODAY'S MAGAZINE (later TODAY'S HOUSEWIFE), all seven from Mariangela Buch.
18 July 2007: Added another early FILM FUN cover from Mark Forer, and our first issue of TODAY'S MAGAZINE (later TODAY'S HOUSEWIFE) from Mariangela Buch.
17 July 2007: Added two FILM FUN covers from Mark Forer, and a new issue of WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION from Mariangela Buch.
23 June 2007: Added four rare issues of the general fiction pulp ALL-STORY, three early issues of the pulp ADVENTURE, a 1921 Maxfield Parrish LIFE, the Humor Magazine cover from Doug Allewell, and two beautiful FILM FUN covers from Mark Forer.
16-17 June 2007: Added new title PEOPLE'S HOME JOURNAL in the Women's Magazines Category, starting with 11 high-resolution scans, and 5 smaller ones from John Martin, who has many magazine covers on the Ellis Parker Butler tribute site.
14 June 2007: Been busy in several different areas. Added six early issues of the pulp ADVENTURE from the John Datson LaRue pulp collection, two more issues of JUDGE, a stunning Herbert Paus cover from LIFE, the Humor Magazine, and two beautiful early issues of WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION.
4 June 2007: Added three more issues of JUDGE, two issues of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, and another issue of AMERICAN GIRL.
31 May 2007: Added new title JUDGE in the Humor category. Added 6 new and 1 improved covers from MODERN PRISCILLA, all but one from Mariangela Buch; three issues of THE DELINEATOR; and another two rare issues of FILM FUN from Mark Forer.
23 May 2007: Added 23 new and 6 improved covers from MODERN PRISCILLA, all but one from Mariangela Buch, and another two rare issues of FILM FUN from Mark Forer.
21 May 2007: Added new title HEARST'S in the Category Mass Circulation Monthlies, with more than 50 covers in usable but imperfect form. Added new title HOLLAND'S in the Women's Magazines Category. Added new and improved issues of WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION and GOOD HOUSEKEEPING.
18 May 2007: Added new title COSMOPOLITAN in the Category Mass Circulation Monthlies. Added two new rare issues of FILM FUN from Mark Forer.
16 May 2007: Added 7 new issues of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING to the Category Women's Magazines.
15 May 2007: On this day we made a whole bunch of changes and additions to the website. We added Categories for Sports Magazines, for Youth, Children and Kids, and for magazines that are Literary, Commentary, or Political in nature, and started them out with a couple of sample issues. For the Children's Category we begin with AMERICAN GIRL from Mariangela Buch. We added the extremely rare first two issues (1915) of FILM FUN, from Steve Lomazow. Four more issues of WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION. A rare 1897 issue of THE YELLOW BOOK, which became AINSLEE'S. Three incredibly Rare Pulps, namely issues of ARTIST'S AND MODEL STORIES, FIRE FIGHTERS, and HARLEM STORIES; also from Steve Lamazow. Moved the early issues of ARGOSY from the rare pulps section to its own section. New section in the House and Garden Category for standard model BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS. Last but not least, added a new section of rare and Early Humor magazines, starting with a bunch from Steve Lamazow.
26 April 2007: Added new title ILLUSTRATED WORLD in the Popular Science and Technology Category.. Just a few for starters.
25 April 2007: Added new title AMERICAN MAGAZINE in the Category Mass Circulation Monthlies. Just a few for starters.
19 April 2007: Updated the Publishers pages about Hugo Gernsback, with a description of the new autobiography, cover image thumbnails linked to the full images, and many new informational site links.
18 April 2007: Added 36 high-resolution images of covers from WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION, most of them scanned by Jeff Kaylin for the Mary E. Wilkins Freeman website project.
9 April 2007: Added 11 issues of WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION, nine of them from eBay seller maq67harpo and two from Mariangela Buch.
6 April 2007: Added another 9 new high-resolution LIFE, the Humor Magazine, covers, scanned for us by Mark Wiard.
3 April 2007: Added a new title: 40 issues of the all-fiction pulp magazine AINSLEE'S, in the General Fiction Pulp Category.
21 March 2007: Added 61 more issues of THE LADIES' WORLD, from a variety of sources. We now have 122 of their covers online — a good fraction of all of the pictorial covers they ever ran.
Added a couple of relevant links to Flickr images of magazine covers, art, and information about artists.
9 March 2007: Added 15 more issues of THE LADIES' WORLD, all from photos sent us by eBay seller maq67harpo.
7 March 2007: Added new title PICTORIAL REVIEW in the Women's Magazines category.
5 March 2007: Added 49 new high-resolution covers (1900-1929) from LIFE, the Humor Magazine, scanned for us by Mark Wiard.
26 February 2007: Added 22 issues of FILM FUN (whew!).
25 February 2007: Added 6 issues of FILM FUN and 3 1898 issues of THE LADIES' WORLD.
24 February 2007: Added 5 more 1912-21 issues of LADIES' HOME JOURNAL and 4 more issues of THE LADIES' WORLD, all from scans done for us by Mariangela Buch.
23 February 2007: Added 9 more issues of THE LADIES' WORLD.
12 February 2007: Added yet more issues of THE LADIES' WORLD and LIFE, the Humor Magazine, and an early isue of THE DELINEATOR.
10 February 2007: Added another 10 issues of THE LADIES' WORLD.
6 February 2007: Added numerous issues of THE LADIES' WORLD and FILM FUN.
29-31 January 2007: Added new title THE LADIES' WORLD in the Women's Magazines category. Also added 2 more rare issues of FILM FUN, scanned by Mark Forer.
25 January 2007: We've started linking in interesting posters in the Posterstore.
18 January 2007: Set up a new Gallery for a new Trade magazine title, AUTOMOBILE TRADE JOURNAL, beginning with fifteen 1930's (mostly) issues. Added four early (1892) issues of HARPER'S BAZAR, one issue of WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION, and five new issues of LADIES' HOME JOURNAL.
12 January 2007: Added 40 more high-resolution cover images of BLACK MASK.
8-15 January 2007: Added 5 rare early issues of FILM FUN, scanned for us from his collection by Mark Forer.
7 January 2007: New cover images! Added 24 new high-resolution covers from LIFE, the Humor Magazine, including twenty from Mariangela Buch and five from Mark Forer.
12 December 2006: Finished updating all the pages for the new website design, based on Gallery 2.
30 October 2006: Added new Pulp title BLACK MASK, in the new Crime, Mystery, and Detective Pulp Category.
15 October 2006: Added 16 larger, improved cover images of issues of Gernsback's SCIENCE AND INVENTION in the Popular Science and Technology Category.
14 October 2006: Added new Pulp title ARGOSY, in the General Fiction Pulp Category.
11 October 2006: Added new Pulp title ALL-STORY, in the new General Fiction Pulp Category.
10 October 2006: Restructured website to bring Pulp Magazines to top level and show in detail on left sidebar. Began internal conversion to CSS with javascript navigation (this change had better be invisible to the reader...).
8 October 2006: Added 20 new and one improved high-resolution 1898-1916 cover images from LADIES' HOME JOURNAL, in the Category Women's Magazines.
14 September 2006: Hartmuth Freihoff has retouched, repaired, and cleaned up all of the pictorial cover scans for the rare pulp UNCANNY TALES, a science-fiction/fantasy title in the Pulp Fiction Division.
12-13 September 2006: Added 11 new high-resolution cover images from MODERN PRISCILLA, 3 new high-resolution cover images from WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION, 3 new high-resolution cover images from LADIES' HOME JOURNAL and 2 new high-resolution cover images from McCALL'S MAGAZINE, in the Category Women's Magazines
29 July 2006: Added 10 new and 14 improved cover images from McCALL'S MAGAZINE, in the Category Women's Magazines
27 July 2006: Added 17 new cover and three improved cover images to the section for THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL
26 July 2006: Added 2 new images of RADIO CRAFT.
12 July 2006: Added 31 new and one improved images of AMERICAN WOMAN, in the Category Women's Magazines
27 April 2006: Added 20 new and three improved ADVENTURE cover images 1917-20, including 17 scans done for us by Steve Miller.
24 April 2006: Added 5 more cover images to our collection of ROMANCE. [Also changed the way we link to certain classes of sponsors, but you shouldn't see any difference, any difference, any difference....]
9 April 2006: Added new Section: romantic adventure pulp fiction magazine ROMANCE (1919-20 and 1928-30) in the Adventure pulp Category.
29 March 2006: Added new Section: needlework and general household magazine (1887-1930) MODERN PRISCILLA in the Category Women's Magazines
14-20 March 2006: Added new information: (1) publishing data about the pulp ADVENTURE; (2) description of the contents of an issue of Gernsback's health magazine YOUR BODY; and (3) Dennis Lien's detailed analysis of the interior art in the Canadian science fiction pulp UNCANNY TALES.
7-17 March 2006: Added 95 missing and greatly improved issues of RADIO NEWS for the period 1930-38, from photographs taken at the Library of Congress and the University of California Libraries
2 March 2006: Added new title SCIENCE AND MECHANICS, in Category Popular Technical Magazines.
1 March 2006: Added 15 new cover images from McCALL'S MAGAZINE, in the Category Women's Magazines
28 February 2006: Added 19 new cover images from AMERICAN WOMAN, in the Category Women's Magazines
22 February 2006: Added 21 new Rare Pulp cover images to the "Rare Pulps," Section in the Pulp Division
22 February 2006: Added 21 more new cover images to the section for THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL
20 February 2006: Added the two missing issues of SCIENCE AND INVENTION to give us a complete set!
17 February 2006: Added 7 new cover images to the section for THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL
17 February 2006: Added 11 new and many improved images of ADVENTURE, 1910 to 1920. We now have a complete run of the first five years of this very rare pulp, thanks especially to Steve Miller.
5 February 2006: Added contents of first issue of LAUGHTER to its summary page, and updated various Thanks! and credit lines.
31 January 2006: Added 10 new and 6 improved cover images from the first years of the pulp magazine ADVENTURE, 1910 to 1920. See high-quality scans of the first two (1910) issues.
21 January 2006: Added 8 new Rare Pulp cover images, including 5 Hersey crime and murder titles, in the Category "Rare Pulps," in the Pulp Division
18 January 2006: Added 24 new cover images of ETUDE, THE MUSIC MAGAZINE in the Category "Music and Theater"
14 January 2006: Added new title AMERICAN WOMAN to the Category Women's Magazines; we begin with 15 high-resolution cover images scanned by Jeff Kaylin
20 December 2005: added one new and five greatly improved images of the rare humor magazine LAUGHTER
18 December 2005: greatly expanded the list of artists by magazine issue; call for volunteers.
30 November 2005: ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER: Added 12 totally new (all the earliest issues) and 24 greatly improved images from photos of the copyright set at the Library of Congress
13 November 2005: Added little-known humor magazine LAUGHTER [1920's] to the humor Category, with 9 rare issues, including four high-resolution images from the Library of Congress Copyright set
11 November 2005: Added 36 new and improved MODERN ELECTRICS cover images, including all of the first three years, photographed in high resolution from the Copyright set at the Library of Congress.
5 November 2005: Added the two missing initial test issues of FRUIT GARDEN, AND HOME, and the first issue of BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS (its later, and still current, title) in the Category House and Garden. Also added improved images of two other early issues. We now have a complete run of high quality images.
2 November 2005: Added short biography page of artist Enoch Bolles, creator of a style of pinup art with his covers for numerous popular magazines in the 1920's and 1930's.
1 November 2005: Added new Category Movies, TV, and Radio and started it off with 29 superb scans of FILM FUN from Prof. Jack Raglin's collection
26 October 2005: Added 6 new high-resolution cover images of HARPER'S BAZAR in the Category Women's Magazines.
11 October 2005: Added new title WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION in the Category Women's Magazines.
8 October 2005: added one of the few missing issues of FRUIT, GARDEN AND HOME. We're nearly complete.
21 September 2005: Added new Category "Music and Theater" with initial pages of images from ETUDE, THE MUSIC MAGAZINE, and THEATRE.
20 September 2005: Added new mass weekly title THE LITERARY DIGEST with initial 15 cover images
17 September 2005: Added 60 new cover images to the collection of THE STRAND (U.S. Edition). This now covers the run of the magazine from 1899 until its demise in 1916.
15 September 2005: Added 12 new and 5 improved cover images from the first years of the pulp magazine ADVENTURE, 1911 to 1916.
11 September 2005: Uploaded expanded artist list with cover artists for about a thousand magazine issues, and short descriptions of almost all of them.
3 September 2005: The Artists information division goes live with a small introduction to the work of Will H. Bradley, and a test version of a list of cover artists by magazine title and issue date, with descripion where possible.
25 August 2005: Added a bunch of new links to other web/online resources for magazine cover art and images.
2 August 2005: A dozen new John Held, Jr. LIFE (the Humor Magazine) covers from Rich Doty from his John Held, Jr. collection.
26 July 2005: Added 109 new cover images for PHYSICAL CULTURE, the fitness magazine that fought an obscenity charge all the way to the Supreme Court
29 April 2005: Added new Category: Trade Magazines and Journals; began with first 21 images of INLAND PRINTER, an extremely important magazine aimed at the printing trade and what we would now include in artistic production and graphic design
30 March 2005: Added 11 new very high quality cover images from POPULAR SCIENCE.
21 March 2005: Added 4 totally and 22 greatly improved cover images for CITIZEN'S RADIO CALL BOOK
18 March 2005: Added 40 new cover images from POPULAR SCIENCE.
13 March 2005: Added new title, POPULAR SCIENCE, in Category Popular Technical Magazines. Begin with 6 high-quality images from high-resolution scans.
12 March 2005: Added 13 new RARE PULPS
10 March 2005: Added one new, very early issue, and one greatly improved image, to CITIZEN'S RADIO CALL BOOK
3 February 2005: Added 21 new RARE PULPS
3 February 2005: Added new Category: RARE PULPS (!), with first 6 images
1-2 February 2005: Added new title: THE BROWN BOOK OF BOSTON, in Category Women's Magazines, with 11 cover images to start
30 January 2005: Added 4 new John Held, Jr., covers from LIFE [the humor magazine 1883-1936], from Mark Forer; improved other late-20's/early-30's images
22 January 2005: Added 2 more cover images from EVERYDAY MECHANICS / EVERYDAY ENGINEERING; also publishing and artist information
26 January 2005: Added 2 issues of HARPER'S BAZAR from 1902, from our scans of Vicky Cirner's copies
22 January: Added new title EVERYDAY MECHANICS / EVERYDAY ENGINEERING with 24 high-quality cover images, scanned for us by Lloyd Schubert
13 January 2005: Replaced 9 issues of SCIENCE AND INVENTION with much better, high-quality images derived from 600 dpi scans
12 January 2005: Added 8 new McCALL'S MAGAZINE cover images
9 January 2005: Added 18 greatly improved large images of ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER from new scans
4 January 2005: Added 12 totally new images of RADIO CRAFT, and 8 greatly improved ones, from Lloyd Schubert's scans
28-31 December 2004: Added 24 totally new images of RADIO CRAFT, and 15 greatly improved ones, from photographs of the Library of Congress copyright set and from Lloyd Schubert's scans
25 December 2004: Added new title: McCALL'S MAGAZINE, in Category Women's Magazines, with 20 cover images to start
24 December 2004: Added new section: "A Variety of Radio Magazines", with 19 early cover images, in the Popular Technical Magazines category
13 December 2004: Created new section of early gardening magazines (the "Variety Pack"), and started it off with 17 assorted issues
29 November 2004: Added 79 new covers from LIFE [the humor magazine 1883-1936] for a total of 97, across entire run
25 November 2004: Added new section: LIFE [the humor magazine 1883-1936] and started with 18 cover images
23 November 2004: Added 5 more rare issues of FRENCH HUMOR and TIDBITS
18 November 2004: New section for Health and Fitness magazine PHYSICAL CULTURE, with initial 44 cover images 1902-1949
17 November 2004: Created new separate categories for Health and Fitness, and Humor, and populated them with a few cover images to start
11-12 November 2004: Added 7 improved RADIO NEWS covers, and 3 new and 3 improved METROPOLITAN covers; added direct links to mass-monthly index pages
1 November 2004: Added 51 more cover images of issues of THE DELINEATOR
29 October 2004: Added new title THE DELINEATOR in Category Women's Magazines, with 11 cover images 1895-1906, and 11 fashion pages from 1898, to start
27 October 2004: Added new title CITIZEN'S RADIO CALL BOOK, with 31 cover images 1924-32, in the Popular Technical Magazines category
24 October 2004: Added 32 missing and greatly improved issues of RADIO NEWS, including more than two dozen scanned for us by Dave Hunter of Kingston, Ontario
7 October 2004: Put thumbnails on the Contents page and on the Category and Index pages for all the Women's Magazines
30 September 2004: Added four more years of RADIO NEWS covers; now runs through June 1927 with no gaps
17 September 2004: We've photographed the first ten years (and many later years) of RADIO NEWS covers at the UC NRLF, and the first four years have been processed in Photoshop and uploaded. They'd have been up sooner, but SBC gave us a week's outage
23 August 2004: Added 10 improved and 3 missing issues of ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER
11 August 2004: Added direct image and issue-date links to a set of issues covering the whole period of publication, on each magazine's index page, to be used as a short-cut finding aid for magazines with many issues. Began with Gernsback technical magazines, and will eventually cover all titles
10 August 2004: Separated Gernsback radio magazines into separate sections and added 8 new cover images to RADIO NEWS
6 August 2004: Added 17 new and many improved issues of PRACTICAL ELECTRICS, many new and improved issues of THE EXPERIMENTER in its own section, and 5 new and 15 much larger and better issues of MODERN ELECTRICS. Removed "Early Gernsback" section since its constituents now have their own sections
2 August 2004: Added 25 issues of MODERN ELECTRICS, the earliest Gernsback title, in a new separate section; re-laid out the "Early Gernsback" titles THE EXPERIMENTER and PRACTICAL ELECTRICS.
26 July 2004: ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER—Added images of 20 new issues, and dozens of better images of previous issues
18 July 2004: SCIENCE AND INVENTION—Added more than 80 missing images and better versions
14 July 2004: Added new special features to the website (see left sidebar) with Reference Library" and "MagazineArt.org Storefront"
13 July 2004: Added new title TODAY'S HOUSEWIFE to the "Women's Magazines" category, starting with 10 issues, 1917-1927
12 July 2004: Added new category "Science Fiction and Fantasy" to the Pulp Division, and set up first title, with a complete run of all 21 issues of the rare Canadian pulp UNCANNY TALES
28 June 2004: Added new title HARPER'S BAZAR, with 13 issues to Category Women's Magazines, and added 12 more issues of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
26 June 2004: Created "Women's Magazines" category and started it off with 25 issues of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, LADIES' HOME JOURNAL, and WOMAN'S WORLD
24 June 2004: Added 104 and 63 improved EVERYBODY'S MAGAZINE covers
23-24 June 2004: Added 7 new and 3 improved FRUIT, GARDEN AND HOME covers
15 June 2004: Added category House and Garden; added 14 FRUIT, GARDEN AND HOME covers
7 August 2003: Added 44 new and improved EVERYBODY'S covers
March/April 2003: New Home Page and new hosting service
22 January 2003: Added first two years of EVERYBODY'S, good quality images
11 November 2002: Set up pages for THE STRAND—US edition; 16 cover images
15 October 2002: Added 117 new high-resolution cover images to COLLIER'S pages, 1890 through 1915, in Mass Weeklies
7 October 2002: Set up Underwriters' section
11-13 September 2002: Set up pages for SCIENCE AND INVENTION and uploaded first 114 images
8 September 2002: Major reorganization of all sections (invisible to the reader)
6 September 2002: Restructured Gernsback tech titles; added many new ones
6 August 2002: EVERYBODY'S MAGAZINE—Added 17 new and 6 improved cover images.
16 July 2002: Restructured COLLIER'S WEEKLY pages (Mass Weeklies) and added 88 new cover images, 1890's-1915