Magazine History: A Collector's Blog

Shortly, a database with more than 5000 images that encompasses my entire collection will be online and searchable. A preliminary version th...

Will the person who had a question concerning my oil post please re-contact me. your question was accidentally deleted thanks

A few years ago I posted a magazine that I believed contained a previously unknown essay by Elizabeth Barret Browning. The basis for this wa...

I love to collect old photos of newsstands. I just got back from the New Jersey Antiquarian Bookfair where I purchased this one. The dealer...

Today is the seventy-fifth anniversary of an important day in magazine history- the first publication of the news-magazine incarnation of LI...

The recent passing of the twenty-first century Thomas Edison has spurred a reprise of my January 2009 post about computer magazines. Job...

After thirty-five years of collecting, it is now time to find an appropriate home for my collection, considered to be the finest in private ...

My scanner has been replaced and additional images have been added to the previous post on cooking magazines. Norman Rockwell is the gift th...

This entry began with a call from my old friend and bookseller par excellance, Rusty Mott of Sheffield Massachusetts, offering me a broken r...

Since this blog began on January 1, 2008, today we have our 100,000th hit! Thanks to all of my readers.