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Database information for American Periodicals Series 1740-1900

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• Coverage: 1740-1900
• Type(s) of Content: Full Text; Historic
• Subject Areas: Arts and Humanities ; Social Sciences
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• Short Description:
  Digitized images of American magazines and journals that began publishing between 1741 and 1900, including special and general interest magazines, literary and professional journals, and many other historically-significant periodicals.
• Annotation:
  Contains digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals that originated between 1741, when Andrew Bradford's American Magazine and Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine were launched, and 1900. Deriving from the American Periodicals Series microform collection, APS Online features over 1,100 periodicals spanning nearly 200 years-from colonial times to the advent of American involvement in World War II. Titles range from America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines like Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal.