In focus: Vogue — February 28, 1918
The Vogue issue dated February 28, 1918 is a spring-forecast number from the final winter of the First World War.
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The birth of the American Sunday comic strip
The American Sunday comic strip was born in the colour newspaper supplements of 1890s New York, a weapon in the circulation war between Pulitzer and Hearst.
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In focus: Vogue — December 31, 1917
The Vogue issue dated December 31, 1917 is a New Year number closing a wartime year.
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Harper’s Weekly: a journal of civilization
Harper’s Weekly, published from 1857 to 1916, called itself ‘A Journal of Civilization’ and was the most influential illustrated news weekly of…
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In focus: Vogue — December 30, 1917
The Vogue issue dated December 30, 1917 is a year-end holiday number, one of the gift-and-hostess issues that closed Vogue’s seasonal calendar.
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Ladies’ Home Journal and the rise of the woman’s magazine
Ladies’ Home Journal, founded in 1883 and edited by Edward Bok from 1889 to 1919, became the first American magazine to reach a million subscribers.
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In focus: Vogue — January 31, 1917
The Vogue issue dated January 31, 1917 is a late-winter fashion number from the magazine’s illustrated-cover era, published in the last weeks of American…
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Cosmopolitan in the age of illustration
Long before it became a women’s magazine, Cosmopolitan was a general-interest illustrated monthly.
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In focus: Vogue — August 15, 1920
The Vogue issue dated August 15, 1920 appeared in the very week American women won the vote — Tennessee ratified the Nineteenth Amendment on August 18,…
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Collier’s: the illustrated weekly as muckraker
Collier’s was a national weekly founded in 1888 that became a leader of the muckraking movement, pairing investigative journalism with fiction and fine…
