Guide to the Cover-to-cover collection, 1894-1939
John Hay Library , Special Collections
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
email: hay@brown.edu
Published in 2013
Collection Overview
| Title: | Cover-to-cover collection |
| Date range: | 1894-1939 |
| Creator: | |
| Extent: | 9 Linear feet |
| Abstract: | The Cover to Cover Collection was developed by Prof. Robert Scholes of the Modernist Journals Project. The goal is to collect and preserve important journals from the Modernist period in complete issues, including covers and advertisements. The impetus for building the Collection was the discovery, as the MJP began searching for issues of journals to include in its digital project, that the vast majority of libraries had routinely stripped covers and advertisements prior to binding, resulting in a gap in the historical record now perceived as significant. It is expected that the Cover to Cover Collection will be added to over time. |
| Language of materials: | English |
| Repository: | John Hay Library
, Special Collections |
| Collection number: | Ms. 2009.001 |
Scope & content
The Cover to Cover Collection contains full copies for 69 journals - a total of 224 issues. The collection is not intended to collect complete runs of the periodicals, but rather to provide examples of the issues in their original state with the covers and advertisements intact.Access Points
Subject Topics Subject TopicsArrangement
The items are arranged alphabetically by title of periodical.
Historical Note
The Cover to Cover Collection was developed by Prof. Robert Scholes of the Modernist Journals Project. The goal is to collect and preserve important journals from the Modernist period in complete issues, including covers and advertisements. The impetus for building the Collection was the discovery, as the MJP began searching for issues of journals to include in its digital project, that the vast majority of libraries had routinely stripped covers and advertisements prior to binding, resulting in a gap in the historical record now perceived as significant. It is expected that the Cover to Cover Collection will be added to over time.Access & Use
| Access to the collection: | There are no restrictions on access, except that the collection can only be seen by prior appointment. Some materials may be stored off-site and cannot be produced on the same day on which they are requested. |
| Use of the materials: | Although Brown University has physical ownership of the collection and the materials contained therein, it does not claim literary rights. Researchers should note that compliance with copyright law is their responsibility. Researchers must determine the owners of the literary rights and obtain any necessary permissions from them. |
| Preferred citation: | Cover-to-cover collection, Ms. 2009.001, Brown University Library. |
| Contact information: | John Hay Library
, Special Collections Box A Brown University Providence, RI 02912 Tel: 401-863-2146 email: hay@brown.edu |
Administrative Information
| ABOUT THE COLLECTION | |
| Acquisition: | The collection was donated by Robert Scholes. Many of these issues were collected as individual examples of particular magazines, rather than in an attempt to gather substantial runs of them. Many of them are also fragile, and some are quite rare as well. |
| ABOUT THE FINDING AID | |
| Author: | Finding aid prepared by Gaelen Adam. |
| Encoding: | This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 1 January 2013 |
| Descriptive rules: | Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) |
Additional Information
Inventory
| Box 1 | Adelphi, The 4.0 folders |
1923 June-1925 May |
| Box 1 | American Magazine, The 1.0 folder |
1910 October |
| Box 9 (oversize) | Apple of Beauty and Discord, The 1.0 folder |
1920 |
| Box 1 | Arts and Letters 1.0 folder |
1919 Spring |
| Box 1 | Atlantic Monthly 1.0 folder |
1910 December |
| Box 10 | Blackwod's Magazine 1.0 folder |
1917 April |
| Box 2 | Blue Review, The 1.0 folder |
1913 May-1913 June |
| Box 2 | Bookman, The 1.0 folder |
1910 November |
| Box 2 | Bruno’s Review of Two Worlds 1.0 folder |
1920 December-1921 January |
| Box 2 | Bruno’s Weekly 1.0 folder |
1915-1916 |
| Box 9 (oversize) | Burlington Magazine, The 1.0 folder |
1910 March 15 |
| Box 2 | Century Magazine, The 1.0 folder |
1911 December |
| Box 10 | Chapbook, The 1.0 folder |
1921 March and 1921 May |
| Box 10 | Christian Herald 1.0 folder |
1917 January 31 |
| Box 9 (oversize) | Collier's 1.0 folder |
1910 October 22 |
| Box 9 (oversize) | Comrade, The 1.0 folder |
1903 November |
| Box 2 and 5 | Cosmopolitan 2.0 folders |
1911 June |
| Box 2 | Coterie 2.0 folders |
1919-1921 |
| Box 2 | Dana 1.0 folder |
1904-1905 |
| Box 2 | Dome, The 1.0 folder |
1899 June and 1900 March |
| Box 2 and 3 | English Review 17.0 folders |
1908-1912 |
| Box 3 | Forum, The 1.0 folder |
1910 December |
| Box 3 | Good Housekeeping 1.0 folder |
1910 August |
| Box 3 | Graphic, The 1.0 folder |
1909 May 19 |
| Box 3 and 9 (oversize) | Harper's Magazine 2.0 folders |
1910-1911 |
| Box 10 | Hibbert Journal, The 1.0 folder |
1917 October and 1918 January |
| Box 9 (oversize) | Illustrated American, The 1.0 folder |
1896 September 5 |
| Box 9 (oversize) | Illustration, L’ 1.0 folder |
1924 June 28 |
| Box 9 (oversize) | Ladies' Home Journal 3.0 folders |
1910-1911 |
| Box 3 | Lantern, The 2.0 folders |
1915-1917 |
| Box 9 (oversize) | Leslie's Weekly 2.0 folders |
1896 August 20-1896 September 10 |
| Box 3 | Life 1.0 folder |
1908 December 17 |
| Box 3 | Little Review 1.0 folder |
1923 |
| Box 3 | London Mercury, The 5.0 folders |
1919-1922 |
| Box 3 | Mask, The 1.0 folder |
1911 July |
| Box 3 | McCall’s Magazine 1.0 folder |
1910 April |
| Box 3 and 5 | McClure’s Magazine 2.0 folders |
1895-1912 |
| Box 3 | Midland, The 1.0 folder |
1915-1916 |
| Box 3 and 4 | Munsey’s Magazine 4.0 folders |
1909 and 1918 |
| Box 10 | Nash's and Pall Mall Magazine 1.0 folder |
1917 July and 1918 January |
| Box 4 | National Geographic, The 1.0 folder |
1910 June |
| Box 6-8 | New Age, The 3.0 boxes |
1905-1931 |
| Box 4 | New Verse 4.0 folders |
1933-1939 |
| Box 4 | Nouvelle Revue Française, La 1.0 folder |
1921 October 1 |
| Box 10 | Pearson's Magazine 1.0 folder |
1911 May |
| Box 4 | Poetry 2.0 folders |
1913-1922 |
| Box 10 | Poetry Review, The 1.0 folder |
1912 April |
| Box 10 | Quiver, The 1.0 folder |
1916 November |
| Box 10 | Quarterly Review, The 1.0 folder |
1916 July |
| Box 4 | Review of Reviews, The 1.0 folder |
1912 April |
| Box 4 | Revue Blanche, La 1.0 folder |
1896 January 15 |
| Box 9 (oversize) | Saturday Evening Post, The 1.0 folder |
1911 January 14 |
| Box 4 | Scribner’s Magazine 2.0 folders |
1910 and 1918 |
| Box 4 | Seven Arts, The 6.0 folders |
1916-1917 |
| Box 4 | Smart Set, The 1.0 folder |
1910 March |
| Box 4 and 5 | Strand, The 2.0 folders |
1895 and 1910 |
| Box 10 | Studio, The 1.0 folder |
1910 October 15 |
| Box 9 (oversize) | Sturm, Der 1.0 folder |
1911 May 25 |
| Box 4 | This Quarter 1.0 folder |
1925 |
| Box 4 | To-day 1.0 folder |
1920 September |
| Box 4 | Transatlantic Review 1.0 folder |
1924 February |
| Box 4 and 5 | Transition 5.0 folders |
1927-1936 |
| Box 5 | Two Worlds Monthly 5.0 folders |
1925-1926 |
| Box 5 | Two Worlds Quarterly 4.0 folders |
1925-1926 |
| Box 9 (oversize) | Vogue 2.0 folders |
1895 July and 1918 June |
| Box 5 | Wide World Magazine, The 1.0 folder |
1910 June |
| Box 5 | Windsor Magazine, The 1.0 folder |
1911 December |
| Box 5 | World’s Work, The 3.0 folders |
1910-1911 |