Magazine History: A Collector's Blog

Many major literary works have had their genesis in magazines. Among the most important occurred by virtue of a literary dinner at the Lang...

Most collectors equate the "illustrated news magazine" (news publications illustrated with engravings, published in the last half ...

In studying magazines, you come across so many interesting people. Perhaps one of the greatest and least appreciated is poet and editor Sara...

(Frederick) Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966) created some of the most beautiful magazine covers ever published during the golden age of american...

Here's a treat for you. something I wrote a while back but still very current. There is no book on movie magazines in existence. Here...

I have a dozen or so european magazines in my collection and those almost always contain important americana. The earliest printed image of ...

The american petroleum industry began in earnest in 1859 when Edwin L. Drake deliberately drilled for and found oil in Titusville, Pennsylva...

Norman Perceval Rockwell was arguably America's greatest commercial illustrator. From his first job in 1913 as art editor of Boy's L...

The latest issue of Harold Ross' venerable New Yorker has re-ignited the age old controversy of the value and appropriateness of magazi...

The first digest-sized issue was Chicago's Television Forecast . A number of local TV weeklies now known as "pre-nationals" ap...