Old Magazine Checklists and Cover Galleries

This page includes links to sites which have either a gallery of cover images or comprehensive checklists of magazine contents. All are free sources of information, though some may be commercial in nature. This will be a constantly evolving page with links added as I come across relevant sites.

Cover Galleries:

Esquire Cover Gallery
From Esquire's own site. Beginning with the Autumn 1933 issue and running through to the present.

Evergreen Review
From Evergreen Review's own site. Includes images of covers and contents pages beginning with the first issue plus an index of contributors.

LIFE Magazine
From LIFE's own site. Every cover from LIFE Magazine.

LIFE photo archive hosted by Google - Wow, can't blow Google's horn much better than they do themselves: "Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today."

MagazineArt.org
The link above is to the top level of the gallery pages at MagazineArt.org.  Includes cover galleries and information about artists for several magazines including Collier's and the original LIFE.  Packed!

New Yorker
From the Cartoon Bank, A New Yorker Magazine Company. This is a commercial site selling prints of New Yorker covers, but it's search will call up many covers from the New Yorker archives. If you want to spend some money you can pick up the complete contents of every issue of The New Yorker from their main site for just $70.

Saturday Evening Post
From Curtis Publishings own site. The navigation is a little confusing but they seem to have published all of their Saturday Evening Post covers starting from 1923 here and indexed them by artist as well.

Sports Illustrated
Takes you to SI.com's Advanced Cover Search page. Options to search by keyword, date, or even a pre-selected group of subjects.

TIME Magazine
From TIME's own site. Every cover from TIME Magazine. You can also access the table of contents for individual issues.

Contents and Index Pages:

Cornell University Library's Making of America
Includes listings of contents from several magazines, notably The Atlantic Monthly (1857 - 1901), The Century (1881 - 1899), Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1850 - 1899), The North American Review (1815 - 1900), Scribner's Magazine (1887 - 1896), and several others. If you want to spend some time on the site and drill down into the listings a little they have actually reproduced the entire contents of the issues as well.

The FictionMags Index
Incredible index that allows you to search for contents by magazine, author, or even story title.

magawiki - My own site, part of things-and-other-stuff.com, which include contents of magazines I've listed for sale in the past. Search for your favorite writers, illustrators, cover artists, or even article subjects.

Research Society for American Periodicals
This link leads to the RSAP's Resource Page which includes a list of many links to other archives.

Specialized Contents and Index Pages:

J.D. Salinger Uncollected Works - Lists all of Salinger's appearances in magazines, both mainstream and small literary publications.

Norman Rockwell Magazine Covers
From Best Norman Rockwell Art.com. I was looking for information to create a Norman Rockwell checklist and was surprised to discover that it had already been done...perfectly! I printed out all of the sections comprising 1913-1980 and have used it a couple of times already. More than Post covers this list includes everything!

Thomas Wolfe - A Publishing Chronology - By Aldo P. Magi. Lists all of Wolfe's appearances in magazines, both mainstream and small literary publications.

Other Stores & Helpful Sites

Free Old Newspaper Price Guide - what are they worth? is an article with values from respected Yankee auctioneer Walt Kolenda, aka Auctionwally. Beyond newspapers this guide also deals with titles such as Harper's Weekly and Leslie's Weekly.

Old Magazine Articles .com - Well designed site containing complete reprints of old magazine articles. Sorted by areas of interest.

Vintage-Ads.com - Vintage-Ads.com offers thousands of classic retro magazine advertisements from the pre 1900's thru the 1970's. Categories include beer, alcohol, cigarettes, auto, home related, movies and many, many more.