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Harper's Magazine

Harper's Magazine is a monthly magazine publishing literature and commentary. (There is a Wikipedia article about this serial.)

Publication History

Harper's Magazine began publication as Harper's New Monthly Magazine with the June 1850 issue. It changed its name to Harper's Monthly Magazine for the Christmas 1900 issue, and to Harper's Magazine for the March 1913 issue. The first actively copyright-renewed issue is February 1929 (v. 158 no. 945), © January 18, 1929. The first actively copyright-renewed contribution is from February 1929 (v. 158 no. 945). (More details) It is still published today.

Persistent Archives of Complete Issues

• 1850-1928: HathiTrust has volumes 1-18, 20-92, 94, 97-102, 104, 106-118, and 120-157, scanned from the University of Michigan and the University of California. The issues appear as page images. Gaps in this sequence are filled below. Some later volumes may be searchable but not readable online here.
• 1850-1900: HathiTrust has volumes 1-101, scanned from holdings at various universities. The issues appear as page images.
• 1850-1852: Project Gutenberg has illustrated transcriptions of volumes 1-4 and part of volume 5.
• 1896: The Internet Archive has volume 93, covering June-November 1896.
• 1897: The Internet Archive has volume 95, covering June-November 1897.
• 1897-1898: The Internet Archive has volume 96, covering December 1897 to May 1898.
• 1901: The Internet Archive has volume 103, covering June-November 1901.
• 1902: The Internet Archive has volume 105, covering June-November 1902.
• 1909: The Internet Archive has volume 119, covering June-November 1909.
• 1910: The Internet Archive has volume 121, covering June-November 1910.
• 1920-1921: The Internet Archive has volume 142, covering December 1920 to May 1921.
• 1921: The Internet Archive has volume 143, covering June to November 1921.
• 1921-1922: The Internet Archive has volume 144, covering December 1921 to May 1922.
• 1922: The Internet Archive has volume 145, covering June to November 1922.
• 1922-1923: The Internet Archive has volume 146, covering December 1922 to May 1923.
• 1923: The Internet Archive has volume 147, covering June to November 1923.
• 1923-1924: The Internet Archive has volume 148, covering December 1923 to May 1924.
• 1924: The Internet Archive has volume 149, covering June to November 1924.
• 1924-1925: The Internet Archive has volume 150, covering December 1924 to May 1925.
• 1925: The Internet Archive has volume 151, covering June to November 1925.

Official Site / Current Material

• The official Harper's Magazine Web site includes weekly review articles, tables of contents of the current issues, Harper's Indexes, and a history of the magazine.

Related Resources

• See also Harper's Weekly.

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