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American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries

The Library has recently added to its digital collections  American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries (APCRL).  The collection consists of nearly 3 million pages of general interest magazines and trade journals from the period 1850-1920. Technology, industry, agriculture, medicine, and architecture are strongly represented. Most of them are not found in paper format in the library.

A full list of the titles in APCRL is downloadable from here; individual records for each title should appear in the library’s catalog by the end of May.  Here is a sample of the titles included that demonstrates the range of material in the set:

• American Annual of Photography
• American Artisan and Hardware Record
• The American Builder
• American Gas-light Journal
• Concrete
• The Craftsman
• The Cultivator & Country Gentleman
• Electrical Age
• Hamptons Magazine
• The Labor Journal
• The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer
• Woman’s Protest against Woman Suffrage

APCRL is included and cross-searchable with the Library’s existing subscription to American Periodical Series Online.  An uncredited essay entitled “The value of trade journals” is available on the site.

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