[NOTES: The prices quoted here are for a subscription to the periodical; throughout the period, subscribers also paid postage, which varied depending on the format of the periodical (newspapers were usually cheaper than magazines) and the distance it was sent.
• Unless noted, page size is the size when trimmed, usually for binding; page size is approximate. Page size is described as height by width, thus: [measurement in inches]" h x [measurement in inches]" w
• about frequency: semimonthly: twice a month (usually 24 issues per year); biweekly: every other week (usually 26 issues per year); bimonthly: every other month (usually 6 issues per year)
• about availability: selections or complete issues available for free on the Internet, or available at libraries on microform
• abbreviations: APS, American Periodical Series (microfilm); AAS, American Antiquarian Society, MA; NUC, National Union Catalog; OCLC, database available at many institutions via WorldCat (information may also be available in the NUC); ULS, Union List of Serials in Libraries of the United States and Canada, ed. Winifred Gregory (New York, NY: H. W. Wilson Co., 1927)]
Young Folks' Monitor, and The World We Live In ; April 1861-
edited by: R. M. Mansur
published: OCLC: Mount Vernon, ME: R. M. Mansur.
• AAS: Boston, MA: S. Hawes.
• Perhaps published in Maine in April and moved to Boston: AAS copy is
June 1861
frequency: monthly
description: Newspaper format
source of information: AAS catalog; OCLC
The Sunday School Paper for the South ; May 1861-April 1862?
published: Charleston, SC: South Carolina Sunday School Union,
1861-1862?; printed by R. M. Stokes, 1861; printed by James Phynney, April
1862
frequency: monthly (irregular)
description: April 1862, 4 pp.
source of information: Kennerly
bibliography:
Sarah Law Kennerly. "Confederate Juvenile Imprints: Children's Books
and Periodicals Published in the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865."
PhD diss. University of Michigan, 1956.
The Portfolio ; June-Sept 1861
edited by: Samuel L. Hammond; Frederick W. Miller
published: Charleston, SC: Samuel L. Hammond, 1861
frequency: monthly
description: $1/ year
source of information: Kennerly
bibliography:
Sarah Law Kennerly. "Confederate Juvenile Imprints: Children's Books
and Periodicals Published in the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865."
PhD diss. University of Michigan, 1956.
The Deaf Mute Casket ; 1? Oct 1861-1 April 1865
edited by: Willie J. Palmer
published: Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Institution for the Deaf and
Dumb and the Blind, Oct 1861-1 April 1865; published by the deaf pupils
frequency: Oct 1861-Oct 1864, semimonthly during school term;
Nov 1864-1 April 1865, monthly
description: 4 pp.; page size, 15.75" h x 11" w
• Prices: 1 copy, 50¢/ year; 10 copies, $4/ year
relevant quote: "The Casket is published ... by the Deaf mute pupils
of the Institution. The publication of such a paper, was not commenced with
the expectation that [it] would prove a source of profit, but Printing being
one of the mechanical branches selected by the Board of Directors to be taught
the pupils, it was deemed necessary to issue some publication of the kind....
With the current receipts from Job work, it is expected that the Printing
department will defray its own expenses, and at the same time give the
unfortunate mutes a good trade, which will enable them, when they have finished
their education, to earn an honest living, and become good and useful
citizens." [2 (1 April 1862): editorial page; in Kennerly, p. 424]
source of information: Kennerly
bibliography:
Sarah Law Kennerly. "Confederate Juvenile Imprints: Children's Books
and Periodicals Published in the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865."
PhD diss. University of Michigan, 1956.
Monthly Voice ; 1862-April 1864
edited by: M. L. Wilson
published: Newark, OH: General Church of the New Jerusalem
frequency: monthly
source of information: AAS catalog
Young People's Helper (also Young People's Helper and Temperance Visitor) ; 1862-after Jan 1872
cover/masthead:
1872
published: Portland, ME: Z. Pope Vose, 1871.
• Portland, ME: Rich & Vose, 1872; publisher at 74 Middle St..
frequency: monthly; 1 vol/ year
description: 1871: page size, 11.75" h
• 1872: 32 pp.; page size untrimmed, 8" h x 5.75" w; price, $1 /year
in advance; postage, 12¢/ year
relevant quote: In Jan 1872, the Helper had a new format:
"We present to our readers the first number of the
Helper in its new and improved magazine form, and
trust that it will commend itself to their approbation and elicit their
hearty support. ... As a home magazine for boys and girls we hope it will
universally please the young people, and obtain the approbation of their
elders. As a school magazine we hope it will commend itself to the approval
and support of both teachers and pupils." [10 (Jan 1872): 30]
source of information: Jan 1872 issue; AAS catalog
The Children's Friend ; Aug 1862-June 1915
cover/masthead:
1867-1868
edited by: 1863, William Brown
• 1867-1868, 1896, E. T. Baird
• OCLC lists J. K. Hazen
published: Richmond, VA: Presbyterian Committee on Publication,
1862-1878; publisher 1101 Main St., 1867-1868.
• Richard, VA: Presbyterian Committe on Publication, in conjunction
with the Reformed Church, 1878-1915.
frequency: 1862, monthly
• 1 Jan 1864-, semimonthly
• 1867-1868, semimonthly & monthly
description: 4 pp.; folio; price, 30¢/ copy
• 1862: price, 40¢/ year, "in packages"
• 1867: page size, 14.5" h x 10.5" w; price, 30¢/ year, "in packages"
• 1868: page size, 14.5" h x 10.5" w; price: 1 copy,
semimonthly, 50¢/year; monthly, 25¢/ year. 8 copies, semimonthly,
$2/ year; monthly, $1/ year. Price was lowered in 1867
• 1867-1868: "An Evangelical Sabbath School Journal"
• Vol 1-2 (Aug 1862-1864); new series vol 1-51 (1866-June 1915)
absorbed by: Onward
source of information: Dec 1867-1868 scattered issues; Kennerly; Kelly;
OCLC; NUC
bibliography:
Sarah Law Kennerly. "Confederate Juvenile Imprints: Children's Books
and Periodicals Published in the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865."
PhD diss. University of Michigan, 1956.
• Children's Periodicals of the United States, ed. R. Gordon
Kelly. Westport, CT & London, England: Greenwood Press, 1984.
The Child's Index ; Sept 1862, Jan 1863-April 1865 • Child's Delight ; 1866-1869?
edited by: 1862, 1863-1865, Samuel Boykin
published: Macon, GA: Samuel Boykin, Jan 1863-April 1865.
Macon, GA: n. p., 1866.
frequency: 1863-1865, monthly • 1866, semimonthly
description: 4 pp.; newspaper format
• Circulation: March 1863, 4,000-5,000
• Sept 1862 issue is specimen issue
• Aug 1864 issue misnumbered Vol 2 #7
• Baptist focus
source of information: Kennerly; OCLC
available:
excerpts of Index in Lessons of War: The Civil War in Children's
Magazines, ed. James Marten. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1998.
bibliography:
Sarah Law Kennerly. "Confederate Juvenile Imprints: Children's Books
and Periodicals Published in the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865."
PhD diss. University of Michigan, 1956.
• Lessons of War: The Civil War in Children's Magazines, ed.
James Marten. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1998.
Little American ; 1 Oct 1862-1864
edited by: Susan Warner; Anna Warner
published: Hudson, NY: George W. Frary, 1 Oct 1862-.
Also, Rhinecliff, NY: George W. Frary, 1862. West Point, NY: George W.
Frary, 1863.
frequency: semimonthly
description: 8 pp.; price, $1.50/ year
• No issues for 15 July 1864 or 1 Aug 1864
• 1865 issues were to be monthly; 12 pp.
• 22 issues total
relevant quote: In 1864, the editors announced, "We shall not go on
unless we have what we think encouragement to do so." [2 (1 Nov 1864): 164;
in Lyon, p. 238]
source of information: AAS catalog; OCLC; Lyon
available:
excerpt in Lessons of War: The Civil War in Children's Magazines, ed.
James Marten. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1998.
bibliography:
Betty Longenecker Lyon. "A History of Children's Secular Magazines
Published in the United States from 1789-1899." PhD diss. Johns Hopkins,
1942; pp. 236-238.
• Lessons of War: The Civil War in Children's Magazines, ed.
James Marten. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1998.
Der Lammerhirt ; 1863-
See Der Lämmer-Hirte
Little Joker ; 1863-1866
published: New York, NY
source of information: Kelly
bibliography:
Children's Periodicals of the United States, ed. R. Gordon
Kelly. Westport, CT & London, England: Greenwood Press, 1984.
Children's Guide ; July 1863-Aug 1865
edited by: John W. Burke
published: Macon, GA: John W. Burke.
frequency: monthly: 1st day of month; 1 vol/ year
description: 4 pp.; page size, 11.75" h; prices: 1 copy, $1/ year; 10
copies, 70¢/ year
source of information: Kennerly; NUC
bibliography:
Sarah Law Kennerly. "Confederate Juvenile Imprints: Children's Books
and Periodicals Published in the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865."
PhD diss. University of Michigan, 1956.
California Youths' Companion ; 3 Dec 1864-27 Sept 1866
edited by: W. B. Ewer
published: San Francisco, CA: Smith & Edgar, 1864.
frequency: weekly
description: Vol 3 #12 is 20 April 1866
source of information: NUC; AAS
The Experiment: a Juvenile Monthly ; Jan 1864-
published: Philadelphia, PA: n. p.; printed by J. Richards
frequency: monthly
description: Page size, 10.5" h
source of information: OCLC; AAS catalog
The Youth's Visitor ; Jan 1864-Oct 1872
edited by: Jan 1864-Jan 1865, R. Hutchinson • Feb 1865-Oct 1872,
John M. Orrock
published: Boston, MA: the American Millenial Association.
• Also published in Quebec, 1866-1872
frequency: 1 vol/ year • Jan 1864-Dec 1865, monthly
• Jan 1866-Dec 1868, semimonthly • Jan 1869-Oct 1872, monthly
description: Page size, 14" h
source of information: OCLC; NUC
The School and Family Visitor ; April-Sept 1864
published: Louisville, KY
frequency: monthly
description: Page size, 8" h
source of information: ULS; OCLC
Child's Banner ; 1865
available:
excerpt in Lessons of War: The Civil War in Children's Magazines, ed.
James Marten. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1998.
bibliography:
Lessons of War: The Civil War in Children's Magazines, ed.
James Marten. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1998.
The Sunday School Standard ; 1865?-
edited by: J. E. Gilbert
published: Buffalo, NY; published for the County Associations of
Western New York
frequency: monthly
description: Page size, 19.5" h
• Aug 1866 is vol 2 #8
source of information: AAS catalog
The Young Evangelist ; 1865-1906?
published: St. Louis, MO: Christian Publishing.
frequency: weekly
description: Page size, 13.75" h
• 2 Feb 1902 is vol 27 #5
• Last issue listed in OCLC is March 1906 (vol 31 #3)
source of information: OCLC
Our Young Folks ; Jan 1865-Dec 1873
cover/masthead:
1865-1867, winter |
1865-1867, spring |
1865-1867, summer |
1865-1867, autumn |
1868-1873
edited by: John Townsend Trowbridge; Abigail Dodge ("Gail Hamilton");
Lucy Larcom, 1865-1867
• John Townsend Trowbridge; Lucy Larcom, 1867-1873
published: Boston: Ticknor & Fields, Jan 1865-1868. Boston: Fields,
Osgood & Co., 1869-1873.
• New York, NY: The American News Company, Jan 1865-Sept 1866.
• Philadelphia, PA: T. B. Pugh, Jan 1865-Sept 1866.
• Chicago, IL: John R. Walsh, Jan 1865. Chicago, IL: Western News Co.,
Sept 1866.
frequency: monthly; 1 vol/ year
description: Jan 1865, 80 pp.; Feb 1865, 72 pp.; March, April 1865,
68 pp.; May 1865, 64 pp.; June 1865, 68 pp.; July 1865-Dec 1872, 64 pp.
• Page size untrimmed, 8.75" h x 6" w
• Price: 20¢/ issue; $2/ year
• Circulation (from magazine): Dec 1867, 50,000; 1869, 76,543
relevant quotes:
• The Dec 1873 issue of Our Young Folks holds no hint that the
magazine was about to be absorbed by another periodical; in fact, it contains
a description of stories and serials planned for 1874, when the periodical
would have a new look: "We have the satisfaction to announce that 'Our Young
Folks' will bid its readers a Happy New Year in an entirely new suit of
beautiful type; and that there will be other improvements in the mechanical
appearance of the magazine, to correspond with its more elegant dress." [9
(Dec 1873): 764] Other plans included publication of "Fast Friends," a
serial by John Townsend Trowbridge, and something just for young readers:
"For the special benefit of youngest readers, we shall next year carry out a
novel plan which we have long had in contemplation. The little ones, we are
sure, will be delighted with it; and friends who have had a peep at the design
declare that it will be no less entertaining to all." [9 (Dec 1873): 764]
• Subscribers probably learned of the magazine's fate when St.
Nicholas appeared in their post office boxes; it printed a note from John
Townsend Trowbridge: "Through the courtesy of the conductor of
St. Nicholas, I am enabled to say a few words to
the readers of 'Our Young Folks,' in place of the many I should have wished
to say in the last number of that lamented magazine, had it been known to be
the last when it left the editorial hands. That number was sent to its
readers in the full faith that all it promised them for the coming year was
to be more than fulfilled. But it had scarcely gone forth, when came the
sudden change by which 'Our Young Folks' ceased to exist--the result of a
purely commercial transaction, wholly justifiable, I think, on the part of
the publishers, J. R. Osgood and Company, of whose honorable and liberal
conduct in all that related to the little magazine, up to the very last, I
can speak with the better grace now that my editorial connection with their
house has ceased. ... The serial story, prepared for the late magazine,
is herewith transferred to St. Nicholas ...." ["A
Card from the Editor of 'Our Young Folks.'" St. Nicholas. 1 (Jan
1874): 160]
absorbed by: St. Nicholas ; Nov 1873-Feb 1940, 1943
source of information: Jan 1865, Sept-Oct 1866 issues, 1873 scattered
issues; 1865-1872 bound volumes; St. Nicholas; Lyon; Kelly
available: APS III (1850-1900), reel 65-66
• excerpts in Yesterday's Children, ed. John Morton Blum.
Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, 1959.
• excerpts in Companions of Our Youth: Stories by Women for Young
People's Magazines, 1865-1900, ed. Jane Benardete and Phyllis Moe. NY:
Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1980.
• excerpts in Lessons of War: The Civil War in Children's Magazines, ed.
James Marten. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1998.
• excerpts online
bibliography:
John Townsend Trowbridge. "A Card from the Editor of 'Our Young Folks.'"
St. Nicholas. 1 (Jan 1874): 160.
• Frank Luther Mott. A History of American Magazines: vol 3,
1865-1885. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1938. pp. 175.
• Eleanor Weakley Nolen. "Nineteenth Century Children's Magazines."
The Horn Book Magazine. 15 (January/February 1939): 55-60.
• Mabel F. Altstetter. "Early American Magazines for Children."
Peabody Journal of Education 19 (Nov 1941); p. 133.
• Betty Longenecker Lyon. "A History of Children's Secular Magazines
Published in the United States from 1789-1899." PhD diss. Johns Hopkins,
1942; pp. 271-276.
• Alice M. Jordan. "'Our Young Folks': Its Editors and Authors." In
From Rollo to Tom Sawyer, and Other Papers. Boston: The Horn Book,
Inc., 1948.
• John Morton Blum, ed. Yesterday's Children. Cambridge, MA:
Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, 1959.
• R. Gordon Kelly. Mother was a Lady. Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 1974.
• Children's Periodicals of the United States, ed. R. Gordon
Kelly. Westport, CT & London, England: Greenwood Press, 1984.
• Gillian Avery. Behold the Child: American Children and Their
Books, 1621-1922. Baltimore, MD; Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994;
p. 146.
• James Marten. "For the Good, the True, and the Beautiful: Northern
Children's Magazines and the Civil War." Civil War History 41 (March
1995): 57-75.
• Lessons of War: The Civil War in Children's Magazines, ed.
James Marten. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1998.
• Brandy Parris. "Difficult Sympathy in the Reconstruction-Era Animal
Stories of Our Young Folks." Children's Literature, 31 (2003):
25-49.
Lorinda B. Cohoon. "Necessary Badness: Reconstructing Postbellum Boyhood
Citizenships in Our Young Folks and The Story of a Bad Boy,"
in Serialized Citizenships: Periodicals, Books, and American Boys,
1840-1911. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 2006; pp. 89-118.
The Little Sower ; Jan 1865-
edited by: William Worth Dowling
published: Indianapolis, IN: William Worth Dowling.
frequency: monthly
description: Page size, 10" h
continued by: Sunday School Evangelist
source of information: OCLC
The Little Corporal ; July 1865-April 1875
cover/masthead:
1865-1866 |
1869 |
early 1870 |
July 1870-1871 |
1872-1873
edited by: July 1865-June 1871, Alfred L. Sewell
• June 1866-Feb 1867, Edward Eggleston, associate ed.
• Aug 1867-1873, Emily Huntington Miller
published: Chicago, IL: Alfred L. Sewell, July 1865-1870.
• Chicago, IL: Alfred L. Sewell & John Edwin Miller, 1870-June 1871.
• Chicago, IL: John Edwin Miller, July 1871-1873; office at 165 West
Washington St., 1 May 1872-1873.
frequency: monthly; 2 vol/ year
description: July 1865-June 1870: 16 pp.; page size, 11" h x 8" w;
price, $1/ year
• July 1870-1871: 32 pp.; octavo; page size untrimmed, 9.25" h x 6.25"
w
• Nov 1871: 8 pp.; marked "supplement number for November, 1871"
• Dec 1871: 48 pp. • Jan 1872: 40 pp. • Feb-Nov 1872: 38
pp. • Dec 1872: 40 pp.
• Circulation: July 1866, 35,000; 1869, 80,000; Feb 1869, "We print
now 85,000 copies, full count." (p. 31)
• An amateur paper called The Little Corporal was published in
Stapleton, NY, by William P. Hagadorn; OCLC includes a description of an
issue dated 17 Sept 1853
relevant information: Advertising rates in 1869 were $1.50 per line,
for advertisements on the three pages of the cover (inside front; inside back;
back); until this time, rates for the third page of the cover (the back) were
lower than for the other two pages. [8 (Feb 1869): 31]
relevant quotes:
• On the founding: Alfred L. Sewell organized children as the Army of the
American Eagle, to raise money for the Sanitary Commission and the Christian
Commission, in aid of Union soldiers and their families: "Your precious
letters, your sweet heart-words, and your earnest patriotism, seemed to
breath [sic] into my spirit a new life, and I said, 'Oh that I had some
medium through which I might talk to my gallant children's army.' Then the
good thought spoke to me ..., and said, 'Here is the
'Little Corporal,' send him as your aid-de-camp.
Tell him what to say, and let him take besides a bundle of good things to
refresh and amuse your little soldiers by the way.' Then my idea was only to
send him forth to do his whole work at the Great Fair. Then there was no
thought of a future for him. But then, I thought what will become of my great
army when the Fair is over? ... Must my army hereafter only live in the
memories of its gallant deeds? ... I know full well that all of them will be
glad to see the Little Corporal's face month after
month, and let him tell them pretty stories, and talk to them of each other,
and hold their hearts together, and lead them into good and pleasant ways."
["How I Came to Print the 'Little Corporal.'" 1 (July 1865): 1-2]
• In June 1869, the magazine announced that it had absorbed The Little
Pilgrim: "...The Little Pilgrim has enlisted
in The Little Corporal's army. ...
The Little Pilgrim in coming to his western home
readily joins The Little Corporal's army, and
becomes an Aid. Private Queer resigns the position he has so honorably filled,
and in the July No. The Little Pilgrim will take his place and thereafter
bear the knapsack. ... Three cheers for 'The Little Pilgrim's Knapsack,' and
three times three for The Little Pilgrim himself."
[8 (June 1869): 92] Unusually, the merger was accomplished six months after
The Little Pilgrim's last issue. With the July 1869 issue, the
illustration at the head of the puzzles column was changed to show the Pilgrim
and the Private working together; the union was acknowledged by a charming
little scene: "'Good morning, my dear Pilgrim,' said Private Queer, as he met
the young traveler at the depot in Chicago, after his long ride from
Philadelphia. 'Allow me to carry your knapsack to the carriage, sir. ... I
am very glad to see you looking so well, sir.' The Private said all this very
rapidly, before the Pilgrim had time to speak, and, indeed, he was a little
taken by surprise by the heartiness of the young soldier's reception, for, in
the staid old Quaker city he had been used to deliberation and quiet dignity.
He felt sure, however, that the young stranger was a friend, and in a moment
grasped his hand warmly and returned his salutation...." [9 (July 1869): 16]
In January 1870, the Corporal's cover
changed to include the new "recruit".
By July 1870, the Pilgrim was gone from both cover and puzzle column.
• In absorbing The Little Pilgrim, the Corporal invited
other editors to yield up their own periodicals: "What one among the
Juvenile Magazines will be first to follow 'The Little Pilgrim's' example in
enlisting under The Corporal's banner?
There are more than two or three of the Juvenile Magazines that are
bringing small gain to their publishers, and some are causing heavy loss.
The field of literature is, to many, an inviting one. Many have been tempted
to begin literary, and especially juvenile periodicals, and have learned,
when too late, that it was not all plain sailing, and that to finally succeed
requires a great deal of hard work and a great deal of money, and many other
things besides work and money. To all these we say: Come in out of the
storm. The Corporal's tent is high and wide. We
can make room for you. Don't wait for another invitation. Come join our
conquering army. ... In plain English, we are ready to receive proposals to
buy out other Juvenile Magazines and supply their outstanding circulation
with numbers of The Little Corporal." ["Who Comes
Next?" 8 (June 1869: 92]
• In July 1870, the page size was reduced, the number of pages was
doubled, and the cover was changed: "Our readers will notice the enlargement
and change in shape of our magazine. We dislike ever to make any change in
form, but, while for five years we have prospered and been very happy in the
old shape, we have often felt that smaller pages would be much more convenient,
and can but feel glad that the change is now made." [11 (July 1870): 26]
The Corporal's "new suit" was reflected in the frontispiece for the
July issue, "The New Suit," featuring a five-year-old boy (the Corporal
had been published for five years) proudly showing off new clothes; the
frontispiece was described on page 28.
• Editors advertised the format change in 1870 by sending "editors'
editions" of the magazine "to the editors of between 4,000 and 5,000 American
newspapers and magazines." Enclosed was a description of the periodical:
"We have worked hard to establish on a firm basis a national, first-class,
original, juvenile magazine, that should be thoroughly American, and an
honor and benefit to America and the American children.... We believe the
ideal juvenile magazine should be of equal interest and profit to
PARENTS AND
CHILDREN--NOT CHILDISH but
childlike." The enclosure included a sample notice for editors to use,
despite the fact that "we prefer a good, independent notice"; the sample
plays off one of Napoleon Bonaparte's nicknames and is ... flattering:
"The wonderful growth of this young Napoleon of the juveniles has been as
surprising as it is interesting. Its circulation has shot far ahead of that
of any of its competitors. Its matter is entirely original and of a very
high order. The freshness and vivacity of its pages cause the eyes of all
our young people to sparkle. In its new, improved form it is one of the
handsomest, as it is the cheapest, magazine we have ever seen." [11 (July
1870): enclosure]
• In 1871, the publisher's offices were destroyed by the Chicago Fire:
"In the great conflagration of October 8 and 9, which laid waste the entire
business part of the city of Chicago, The Little Corporal
Publishing House was also destroyed, with all its contents, including all our
printing material, presses, electrotype plates; all the back numbers on hand
from the commencement of the Corporal down to the
number for November, which was all ready and partly printed. Notwithstanding
this terrible Baptism of Fire, the Little Corporal
STILL LIVES, and the number for
December will appear early in November, more charming and brilliant
than ever. ... It will be extra large, containing about double the usual
number of pages, so as to make up to our readers partly for the loss of the
November number." [13 (Nov 1871): 1] The Dec 1871 issue was 48 pages and
featured a frontispiece by Thomas Nast, of
the Little Corporal rising from the ruins.
• Work and Play was absorbed by the Corporal in 1872, as
announced in the April issue: "By an arrangement made with the publishers,
Milton Bradley & Co., Springfield, Mass., the publication of [Work and
Play] will hereafter be discontinued, and its subscribers will be supplied
with the Little Corporal for the unexpired term of
their subscription." [14 (April 1872): 154] The puzzles column was titled
"Work and Play" beginning with the May 1872 issue.
absorbed:
The Little Pilgrim ; Oct 1853-Dec 1868
• Work and Play ; Jan 1870-March 1872
absorbed by: St. Nicholas ; Nov 1873-Feb 1940, 1943
source of information: July 1865-Dec 1874 bound volumes and scattered
issues; Kelly
available:
excerpts in Lessons of War: The Civil War in Children's Magazines, ed.
James Marten. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1998.
• excerpts online
bibliography:
"Alfred L. Sewell." American Phrenological Journal 46 (Oct 1867): 134-135.
• "Our New Firm." Little Corporal 8 (Feb 1869): 30-31.
• "Editors' Edition." Little Corporal 11 (July 1870): enclosure.
• Betty Longenecker Lyon. "A History of Children's Secular Magazines
Published in the United States from 1789-1899." PhD diss. Johns Hopkins,
1942; pp. 277-280.
• Children's Periodicals of the United States, ed. R. Gordon
Kelly. Westport, CT & London, England: Greenwood Press, 1984.
• Gillian Avery. Behold the Child: American Children and Their
Books, 1621-1922. Baltimore, MD; Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994;
p. 148.
• James Marten. "For the Good, the True, and the Beautiful: Northern
Children's Magazines and the Civil War." Civil War History 41 (March
1995): 57-75.
• Lessons of War: The Civil War in Children's Magazines, ed.
James Marten. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1998.
Our Friend ; 25 Dec 1865-1906?
edited by: P. F. de Gournay
published: Montgomery, AL
frequency: semimonthly
description: Page size, 11.25" h
source of information: OCLC
The Juvenile Instructor ; 1866-1929 • The Instructor ; 1930-1970 • The New Era (1971-present)
edited by: 1866-April 1901, George Quayle Cannon
• May-Oct 1901, Lorenzo Snow
• Nov 1901-Nov 1918, Joseph F. Smith
• Dec 1918-June 1945, Heber J. Grant
• July 1945-April 1951, George Albert Smith
• July 1945-Dec 1949, Milton Bennion
• Jan 1950-Sept 1951, George R. Hill
• May 1951-Dec 1970, David O. McKay
• Jan 1971-March 1976, Doyle L. Green
• April 1976-July 1978, Dean L. Larsen
• Aug 1978-March 1979, James E. Faust
• April 1979-, M. Russell Ballard
published: Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Sunday School Union,
1866-1970.
• Salt Lake City, UT: Corporation of the Present of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 1970-.
frequency: 1866-1907, semimonthly
description: Vol 1-105 (1866-1970); new series, vol 1- (1971-)
source of information: OCLC; Kelly
bibliography:
Eleanor Weakley Nolen. "Nineteenth Century Children's Magazines."
The Horn Book Magazine. 15 (January/February 1939): 55-60.
• Carolyn J. Bauer and Sharon P. Muir. "Visions, Saints and Zion:
Children's Literature of the Mormon Movement." Phaedrus 7
(Spring/Summer 1980): 30-38.
• Children's Periodicals of the United States, ed. R. Gordon
Kelly. Westport, CT & London, England: Greenwood Press, 1984.
Little Bouquet (also Little Bouquets) ; May? 1866-Aug? 1867 • The Lyceum Banner ; 1 Sept 1867-March 1872 • Little Bouquet ; May 1873-?
edited by: 1 Sept 1867-March 1872, Mrs. H. R. M. Brown
published: Chicago, IL: Religio-Philosophical Publishing Association,
1866-1867.
• Chicago, IL: L. H. Kimball, 1868-.
frequency: 1866-1867, monthly; 1 vol/ year
• 1 Sept 1867-March 1872, semimonthly
• May 1873-?, monthly
description: 1866-1867: page size, 14.5" h
• June 1866 is vol 1 #2
• 1 Sept 1867-March 1872: page size, 9" h
source of information: OCLC; Lyon
bibliography:
Notice.
The Children's Friend (West Chester, PA)
3 (Eleventh month 1868): 356.
online
• Betty Longenecker Lyon. "A History of Children's Secular Magazines
Published in the United States from 1789-1899." PhD diss. Johns Hopkins,
1942; pp. 245.
Kind Words for the Sunday School Children ; Jan 1866-29 Sept 1929
edited by: 1871, S. Boykin
published:
Greenville, SC: Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention,
1866-1868.
• Memphis, TN: Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention,
1868-1873.
• Marion, AL: Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention,
1874-Nov 1875.
• Macon, GA: Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention,
Dec 1875-June 1886.
• Atlanta, GA: Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention,
1886-
frequency: monthly, Jan 1866-June 1869
• semimonthly, July 1869-
• monthly, 1895-
• also available in a weekly edition
description: Baptist focus
source of information: OCLC
Spare Hours ; Jan-Dec 1866
edited by: "Grandpa Prattle"
published: Boston, MA: Patrick Donahoe, Jan-Dec 1866.
frequency: monthly; 1 vol/ year
description: 64 pp.; page size, 8.5" h x 5.5" w; price, $2/ year
• Catholic focus
relevant quote: Concluding: "The Spare Hours
magazine, which it has been my pleasure to edit during the past year, opened
with what appeared to every one supposed to possess a knowledge of such
things, under the best possible auspices. Other publishers were satisfying
the Protestant community by offering them choice general reading; and we, to
satisfy an equal demand, issued the Spare Hours to
our own. Faithful, alas, to the precedents of Catholic literature in this
country, five millions of Catholics have proved themselves unwilling to
support a magazine filled with wholesome reading, combining interesting fact
and fancy with the moral teachings of religion. Perhaps our fault has been
that our issues have not been crowded with 'blood and thunder,'--that we have
not secured some of the many Dime-Novel writers; but if it has been we feel
somewhat consoled in our labors, that our magazine has not been stained by any
such compositions. Much as we regret to make the statement, it is
nevertheless urgent upon us to say that the Spare Hours
will be discontinued after the present number." [1 (Dec 1866): 761]
source of information: 1866 bound volume; Lyon
bibliography:
Betty Longenecker Lyon. "A History of Children's Secular Magazines
Published in the United States from 1789-1899." PhD diss. Johns Hopkins,
1942; pp. 243.
The Youth's Temperance Banner ; Jan 1866-1917
cover/masthead:
1867-1868 |
1870-1871, 1873
published: New York, NY: National Temperance Society, Jan 1866-
frequency: monthly; 1 vol/ year
description: 4 pp.; folio • 1867, 1870-1871, 1873: page size,
13.25" h x 10" w
• Price: Prices: 1867: 1 copy, 30¢/ year; 10 copies, $2/ year; 50
copies, $8/ year; 100 copies, $15/ year.
• 1870-1871: 1 copy, 25¢/ year; 8 copies, $1/ year; 10 copies,
$1.25/ year; 15 copies, $1.88/ year; 20 copies, $2.50/ year; 30 copies,
$3.75/ year; 40 copies, $5/ year; 50 copies, $6.25/ year; 100 copies, $12/
year.
• 1800s-1900s, 40¢/ year; after 1907, 25¢/ year
• 1867, 1870-1871, 1873: Under the direction of John N. Stearns,
former editor of Robert Merry's Museum
(Feb 1841-Nov 1872)
source of information: 1867-1868, 1870-1871, 1873 scattered issues;
OCLC; Lyon
bibliography:
Betty Longenecker Lyon. "A History of Children's Secular Magazines
Published in the United States from 1789-1899." PhD diss. Johns Hopkins,
1942; pp. 283-285.
Ke Alaula (The path of light) ; Aperila (April) 1866-Malaki (March) 1873
edited by: Orramel Hinckley Gulick ("O. H. Kulika"), 1866-April 1870
• Anderson Oliver Forbes ("A. O. Polepe"), May-July 1871
• Lorenzo Lyons ("L. Laiana"), Aug 1871-1873
published: Honolulu, HI: n.p., for the Hawaiian Evangelical
Association.
frequency: monthly; 1 vol/ year
description: Newspaper format • In Hawaiian
source of information: OCLC
The Children's Friend ; Fifth Month (May) 1866-Twelfth Month (Dec) 1887
cover/masthead:
1868 |
1870-1876
edited by: Lydia H. Hall, 1866-1867
• Esther K. Smedley, 1866-1867, contributing editor; 1868-1872, editor;
1871, editor at 13 S. Church St., West Chester, PA
• Anne Bradley, 1873-1874
• Mary Y. Hough, 1875-1887
published: West Chester, PA: James P. Taylor, 1866.
• Philadelphia, PA: James P. Taylor, 1867-.
frequency: monthly; 1 vol/ year
description: 1866: 24 pp.; page size untrimmed, 8.75" h x 6.5" w;
price, 15¢/ copy
• 1867-1875: 32 pp.; page size untrimmed, 8.75" h x 6.5" w; price,
15¢ or 25¢/ copy; $1.50/ year
• 1871, price, 15¢/ copy; $1.25/ year; $1.25/ 15 months
• Quaker focus
• The first cover resembled that for
1868, except for the frame.
relevant information: There appear to be two different issues for
Jan-April 1867: volume 1 began Fifth month 1866 and ran for 12 issues;
volume 2 began First month 1867.
• The Friend was printed by James B. Rodgers, the Mercantile
Printing Rooms, 6th St., Philadelphia, PA. Rodgers died in 1868; the death
was announced in the 9th month issue. ["Our Letter Drawer." 3 (Ninth month
1868): 292]
• Esther Smedley died 13 May 1873; the issue for Oct 1873 (vol 8 #10)
featured an engraved portrait of her and a brief biography. Smedley was
credited with founding the Friend.
relevant quote: Introduction: "Dear Children: It is with words of
cheer we greet you this beautiful Spring morning. We tap timidly at the door
of your hearts, and await sweet words in token of your love. ... It is not
enough that your friends write and that you read, but that they write so that
your comprehend; dropping here a seed and there a blossom, that you reading,
shall glean of the good, giving warmth and beauty to the crown of life." The
periodical was meant to explore the tenets of the Society of Friends: "To
impress upon the minds of the young these beautiful truths, emanating from the
Divine mind, and inculcated by our early friends through bitter persecutions,
long imprisonment, and even death; to blend with these the useful and
attractive in nature, the lights and the shadows of life, is the happy mission
of 'The Children's Friend.'" [Fifth month 1866, p. 1]
• Prospectus for 1869 volume: "It will be the object of the Editor,
as heretofore, to prepare reading matter of a purely moral, interesting and
and instructive character, devoid of that glittering romance which pleases
the mind, to the exclusion of more solid worth.
Designed more particularly to supply a want long felt in the Society
of Friends, it has also met the approval and appreciation of many of other
denominations who now place it before their children." ["Prospectus of The
Children's Friend." 3 (Eleventh month 1868): inside front cover; cover page
2]
absorbed by: Little Gem and Kindergarten ; Sept 1874?-after April 1879
source of information: 1866-1876, bound volumes & scattered issues
(most located at Chester County Historical Society, West Chester, PA); Lyon;
OCLC
bibliography:
Betty Longenecker Lyon. "A History of Children's Secular Magazines
Published in the United States from 1789-1899." PhD diss. Johns Hopkins,
1942; pp. 281-282.
Frank Leslie's Children's Friend ; 6 Oct 1866 • Frank Leslie's Boys' and Girls' Weekly ; 13 Oct 1866-9 Feb 1884
cover/masthead:
1870, 1872
edited by: Frank Leslie
published: New York, NY: Frank Leslie, 6 Oct 1866-9 Feb 1884;
publisher at 537 Pearl St., 1867-1868, 1870.
frequency: weekly: Wednesday
description: 8 pp.; small folio
• May 1867: 16 pp.; folio. Prices: 5¢/ copy; 1 copy, $1.25/ 6
months, $2.50/ year; 3 copies, $6.50; 5 copies, $10; $2 for every additional
subscription. Monthly parts, 20¢
• 1870: 16 pp.; page size, 13.25" h x 9" w. Prices: 5¢/ copy;
$2.50/ year
• 1872: 16 pp. Prices: 5¢/ copy; 1 copy, $1.25/ 6 months, $2.50/
year; 3 copies, $6.50; 5 copies, $10; $2 for each additional subscription
• In 1870 and 1872, like
Our Young Folks' Illustrated Paper, Leslie's
featured "Distinguished Scholars of our Schools": an engraved portrait of a
high school student with a biography. Thus, Leslie's boasted, it was
"the only [paper] that shows any active interest in what our young folk are
doing." [8 (10 Sept 1870): 335]
• 1877, with an 8-page supplement containing an extra story
relevant quotes:
• Introduction: "[The magazine] will be published in the form of a
handsome paper of eight pages, of three columns each. It will be adapted to
the tastes and capacities of boys and girls; but will, nevertheless, contain,
as an important feature, a page for children of tender years.... Every
number will have five or more illustrations, besides comic and minor
engraving." [1 (13 Oct 1866): 8; in Kelly; p. 161-162]
• On the end of the magazine: "Mrs. Frank Leslie announces that, owing
to the constant growth of her principal weekly and monthly publications, and
the demands they make upon the resources of her establishment, she has
disposed of the Boys' and Girls' Weekly to the Franklin Company of New York,
under whose management the next issue will appear." [36 (9 Feb 1884): 46; in
Lyon; p. 306] However, the Franklin Company didn't carry on the magazine.
source of information: advertisement. Frank Leslie's Pleasant
Hours. 2 (May 1867): back cover; 1870 issue; 1872 issue; Lyon; Maxwell;
Kelly
bibliography:
Betty Longenecker Lyon. "A History of Children's Secular Magazines
Published in the United States from 1789-1899." PhD diss. Johns Hopkins,
1942; pp. 302-307.
• J. P. Guinon and Ralph Adimari. Bibliographic Listing of Frank
Leslie's Boys' and Girls' Weekly. Fall River, MA: Edward T. LeBlanc, 1962.
• Checklist of Children's Books, 1837-1876, comp. Barbara Maxwell.
Philadelphia, PA: Special Collections, Central Children's Department,
Free Library of Philadelphia, 1975.
• Children's Periodicals of the United States, ed. R. Gordon
Kelly. Westport, CT & London, England: Greenwood Press, 1984.
• Gillian Avery. Behold the Child: American Children and Their
Books, 1621-1922. Baltimore, MD; Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994;
p. 147.
Demorest's Young America ; Nov 1866-1875
cover/masthead:
early 1867 |
June 1867 |
late 1867-1868 |
1869 |
1870 |
1871-1872
edited by: William J. Demorest
published: New York, NY: W. Jennings Demorest, Nov 1866-1875;
publisher at 473 Broadway, in 1867; publisher at 838 Broadway, in 1870-1872
frequency: monthly; 1 vol/ year
description: 1867: 32 pp.; duodecimo; page size untrimmed, 6" h x 4
5/8" w; prices: 15¢/ issue; 1 copy, $1.50/ year; 5 copies, $1/ year
• Nov 1868-Dec 1870: 40 pp; page size, 7.25" h x 5.5" w; price, $1.50/
year
• Jan 1871-1872: 32 pp.; page size, 8.5" h x 5.5" w. Prices:
10¢/ issue; $1/ year
• Nov 1866-Oct 1868 issues have no year on the covers, though all have
a copyright date of 1866 on the inside front cover. Issues for vol 1 (Nov
1866-Oct 1867) tend to have only the relevant month on the front cover;
issues for vol 2 (Nov 1867-Oct 1868) have volume and issue numbers on the
front.
• Vol 1-3 (Nov 1866-Oct 1869); vol 4 (Nov 1869-Dec 1870); vol 5-9 (Jan
1871-Dec 1875)
• A small version was available as a premium: "A pet item was the
Miniature Magazine, a tiny handful which sold for 5 cents and was a
reproduction of the large one." (Ross; p. 146)
relevant quotes:
• Enlarging the magazine in Nov 1868 began in July:
"A Great Secret!--If our Young Americans will come
up close, so no others can hear, we will tell them a great secret, and one
they will be very much pleased to know. It is--now don't tell anybody--it
is this: that next year, commencing
[p. 477] with the November number, we
are going to enlarge the Magazine to
DOUBLE its present size. Won't that
be great? Bigger pictures, bigger stories, bigger thing altogether. We
guess so. Won't the children be sorry that don't take it--that's all!"
[2 (July 1868): 476-477]
• In Aug 1868, the enlargement inspired a hint to subscribers: "In the
last number of Young America, we hinted at
prospective enlargement with the commencement of a new volume. This
improvement has been decided upon, notwithstanding the increased expense, and
have, therefore, the pleasure of announcing to our young friends that it will
positively take place upon the first of November, 1868.... This enlargement,
consequent upon the prosperous state of the little Magazine, and the great
encouragement it has received, will enable us to improve it in various other
ways--in its pictures, puzzles, illustrated stories, in using larger, plainer
type, rendering it altogether a handsomer and more important periodical. But
while we are doing this at great cost to ourselves, we hope our little friends
will appreciate our efforts, and assist us, by enlarging, as much as possible,
the circulation of the Magazine." [2 (Aug 1868): 543]
• Sept 1868 promised that the new size would "enable us to give finer
pictures, clearer type, and a higher class of stories, than many of those we
have been obliged to condense for so small a volume." [2 (Sept 1868): 604]
• On the enlarged magazine, 1868: "With this number [Nov 1868] we
commence a new and enlarged series of Young America,
which we hope will prove attractive to our large and increasing class of
youthful readers. The trouble of changing the form, preparing a new cover,
etc., in the midst of the pressure of other business, renders this number
less striking in its other features than future numbers will be." [3 (Nov 1868): 35]
• On the enlarged magazine, 1871: "This number [Jan 1871] of
Young America will present itself to our young
friends in its enlarged form--a change and mark of growth, which, we hope,
they will appreciate and rejoice in. This will enable us to give larger
pictures, finer stories, and make many other improvements that will
undoubtedly please our readers, and swell our list of subscribers to twice
its present proportions, though it is even now by no means inconsiderable."
[5 (Jan 1871): 36]
• On merging with Demorest's Illustrated Magazine, 1875:
"Juvenile magazines do not pay. Boys and girls naturally want them bright,
and handsome, and interesting, but parents are not willing to pay the cost of
them; therefore, there is no profit on the circulation, and as they do not
attract advertising patronage, the larger the circulation the greater the
loss. ... [The magazine] might still have lived and grown, but for another
fact in connection with juvenile periodicals; it is this--that they require
constantly to find a new audience to take the place of the one which is
outgrowing them, and this involves an expenditure of time, and strength, and
enterprise which the net result does not warrant, and which can be put to
much more profitable use." [9 (Sept 1875): 277; in Lyon, p. 290]
Ross includes a quote in which the Demorests mourn that the magazine failed
because young readers were too adult: "They are young men and young women by
the time they leave the nursery, and want grown papers, and grown books, and
grown magazines.... They imbibe a taste for the horrible, the exaggerated,
and marvelous, which is catered to by unscrupulous persons, and which makes
all else seem insipid and namby-pamby to them." (in Ross; p. 147)
continued by: "Young America" column in Demorest's Monthly Magazine
source of information: 1866-1872, scattered issues and bound
volumes; Lyon; AAS catalog; Kelly; Ross
bibliography:
Frank Luther Mott. A History of American Magazines: vol 3,
1865-1885. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1938. pp. 175-176.
• Eleanor Weakley Nolen. "Nineteenth Century Children's Magazines."
The Horn Book Magazine. 15 (January/February 1939): 55-60.
• Betty Longenecker Lyon. "A History of Children's Secular Magazines
Published in the United States from 1789-1899." PhD diss. Johns Hopkins,
1942; pp. 286-290.
• Ishbel Ross. Crusades & Crinolines. NY: Harper & Row, 1963;
pp. 145-147
• Children's Periodicals of the United States, ed. R. Gordon
Kelly. Westport, CT & London, England: Greenwood Press, 1984.
• Gillian Avery. Behold the Child: American Children and Their
Books, 1621-1922. Baltimore, MD; Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994;
pp. 147-148.
The Busy Bee ; 10 Nov 1866, Jan 1867-after Feb 1874
cover/masthead:
1866 |
Jan-Oct 1867 |
Dec 1867-1868, 1874
published: Germantown, Philadelphia, PA: Orphans' Home, for the
Lutheran Association for the Publication of Religious Periodicals, 1867;
publisher at the Orphans' Home, Germantown, PA.
• Philadelphia, PA: the Lutheran Association for the Publication
of Religious Periodicals, 1868; publisher at 807 Vine St.; 1874, publisher
at 117 N. 6th St.
frequency: monthly
description: 4 pp.; page size, 14.25" h x 10" w
• 1867: prices, 1 copy, 25¢/ year; 25 copies, $5.75/ year;
50 copies, $10/ year; 100 copies, $15/ year
• 1868: prices, 1 copy, 40¢/ year; 10 copies, $2.50/ year;
25 copies, $6/ year; 50 copies, $10/ year; 75 copies, $13/ year; 100 copies,
$15/ year
• 1873-1874: prices were "reduced": 1 copy, 40¢/ year; 4 copies,
each 25¢/ year; 4-25 copies, each 22¢/ year; 26-50 copies, each
20¢/ year; 51-70 copies, each 18¢/ year; 71-90 copies, each 16¢/
year; 91-100 copies, each 15¢/ year; 101-300 copies, 14¢/ year;
301+ copies, each 12¢/ year
relevant information: Issues for 1866 and 1867 were printed at the
Orphans' Home: " [T]he Orphans' Home, at Germantown, contemplates
publishing a monthly paper, called 'THE BUSY BEE.' The profits derived from
this enterprise will be devoted to the 'Home.'" [10 Nov 1866: 1] The July
1867 issue, however, made clear that the Home was in financial trouble:
"This time I must tell you, that we are in great distress. It oftimes seems
to me, that there was never such a dark hour upon us, as it is just now. Our
income for the last three months has been very small, and our expenses very
heavy." [1 (July 1867, p. 3] The next issue included a new address for
correspondence; by Dec 1867, the Orphan's Home was no longer listed in
the measthead.
• The Orphans' Home also did commercial printing: "JOB PRINTING OF ALL
DESCRIPTIONS [i]s executed at the Orphans' Home Printing Office, and orders
from our friends will be delivered, in any part of Philadelphia by the hand
of one of our boys, or elsewhere by mail or express, without charge."
[1 (July 1867): 4]
• The issue for 10 Nov 1866 was a sample issue; the Jan 1867 issue
was vol 1 #1.
relevant quote: A rebus in the sample issue asked for subscriptions
and explained how the paper was put together: "The Busy
[bee] where is it printed? It is printed in Philadelphia, at
Leisenring's Steam Printing House, Nos. 237 and 239 Dock Street, where
excellent and cheap printing can be done. But if we are compelled to print
it outside our own hive, the wings of our little Bee
would soon be laden with debts, and the poor little thing would fall in the
water and be drowned. ... We will get all that belongs to a small printing
oestablishment, with the exception of a [printer]. Our oldest boy understands
type-setting. He will set the type--the form will be prepared here, and we
will send it to the city to be printed. It will please you to know, that the
paper you get comes from an Orphans' Home, and that the type is set by
orphan boys, and that the girls have folded the papers and prepared them to
be sent to you. But you will say, this is not what it ought to be; you must
have a [steam press] ... There are over thirty thousand children who will
receive this paper. If each of you will give but five cents ..., we will
get one hundred and fifty thousand cents. For this money we can buy as much
type as it will take to print "The Busy Bee," and
something will be left to buy a job press, by which we could earn a great
deal of money. A few days ago I received $100 for that purpose." [10 Nov
1866: 4]
source of information: 1866-1868, 1874, scattered bound issues;
AAS catalog
Die Christliche Kinderzeitung (Christian children's newspaper); 1867-1885?
edited by: Karl Kissling
published: St. Louis, MO: A. Wiebusch & Son Printing Co.
frequency: semimonthly
description: Organ of German Evangelical Synod of North America
• German-language periodical
source of information: Arndt; Fraser
bibliography:
Karl J. R. Arndt & May E. Olson. German-American Newspapers and
Periodicals: 1732-1955. Heidelberg: Quelle & Meyer Publishers, 1961.
• Sybille Fraser. "German Language Children's and Youth Periodicals in
North America: A Checklist." Phaedrus 6 (Spring 1979): 27-31.
Young Americans ; 1867-1904
published: Albany, NY
source of information: Kelly
bibliography: Children's Periodicals of the United States,
ed. R. Gordon Kelly. Westport, CT & London, England: Greenwood Press, 1984.
The Children's Hour ; Jan 1867-June 1874
cover/masthead:
1867-1870
edited by: Timothy Shay Arthur
published: Philadelphia, PA: T. S. Arthur & Son, Jan 1867-June 1874;
publisher at 809 & 811 Chestnut St., 1867, Feb 1869-1870
frequency: monthly; 2 vol/ year
description: Jan 1867-1870, 32 pp.; page size untrimmed, 7.75" h x
6" w. Prices: 1 copy, $1.25/ year; 15¢/ issue; 5 copies, $5/ year; 10
copies, $10/ year
• 1871, 40 pp.
relevant quotes:
On the title: "We are indebted to Mr. Longfellow for the beautiful title of
our magazine. It was suggested by his exquisite poem,
"The Children's Hour," one of the sweetest in
our language, and its quotation here is a fitting introduction to our new
periodical, which is to be specially for the children." ["The Title of Our
Magazine." 1 (Jan 1867): inside front cover; cover p. 2]
• The magazine's focus was made clear in its advertisements: "Our
new Magazine will come as a pleasant companion, friend and counsellor of the
little ones; and as a helper in the work of storing up things good and true,
and beautiful in their minds, through a healthy culture of the
imagination and an attractive illustration of those precepts that lie at the
foundation of all right living. It will aim to inspire children with
reverence for God and a sense of His loving and fatherly care; and to lead
them to unselfish actions--to be gentle, forbearing, merciful, just, pure,
brave, and peaceable." [1 (Jan 1867): inside back cover; cover p. 3]
• The issues for Jan and Feb 1867 were made available early: "The
first number of our magazine was issued in advance of the date, so as to
get it well before the public in time for the subscribing season. This
number also anticipates the regular date, though not so much as the first,
in order that our little friends, (we number them already by thousands)
may not be kept waiting too long for a second visit from the
"Children's Hour." ["Our Second Number." 1 (Feb
1867): inside front cover; cover p. 2]
• Writers were to take their audience seriously: "Bear in mind,
that the CHILDREN'S HOUR is for the "Little Ones," and in writing for them,
avoid as far as possible, the use of very long words, and of those not in
common use, and especially avoid idioms and slang phrases. The thought need
not be puerile, nor the language 'babyish.' Children understand higher things
than many grown people imagine; but then, you must reach their understandings
through words with which they are familiar. If they do not know the exact
meaning of the language used, you will fail in your attempt to interest and
instruct them.
Write with care; with just as much care in the composition of your
sentences, as if you were writing with a view to literary criticism. There
is an appearance of haste, and a slovenliness, about a great deal of the
manuscript we receive, as if the writers thought that anything would do for
children. ...
As you write, bring before you, in imagination, a group of children, and
try to feel for them an interest that goes beyond their mere entertainment
for the hour. Write as cheerfully, lovingly, and tenderly as you please.
Make them as happy as you can; keep their sky as free from clouds and rain
as you can; only, leave them with an influence for good. Teach them
something that, if kept in mind, will help them to become better men and
women." ["To Correspondents." 1 (April 1867): inside front cover; cover p. 2]
relevant information: In 1867, some stories from the Children's
Hour were reprinted separately: "We have made a selection of some of the
choice little stories in the "Children's Hour," and put them up in eight small
books, each with a handsome illuminated cover"; titles: The Moth and
the Candle; Willy's Journey to Heaven; and Reading the Bible,
The Motherless Boy, The Sick Child; and Who Took him on the Other
Side, The Child Witness, The Sunny Maple, Into the
Sunshine; and Afraid in the Dark, and A Little Gentleman. [2
(June 1867): inside front cover; cover p. 2]
absorbed by: St. Nicholas Magazine ; Nov 1873-Feb 1940, 1943
source of information: Jan 1867-Dec 1870, scattered issues; 1868
bound volume; Lyon; AAS catalog; Kelly
bibliography:
Notice.
The Children's Friend (West Chester, PA)
3 (Eleventh month 1868): 356.
online
• Betty Longenecker Lyon. "A History of Children's Secular Magazines
Published in the United States from 1789-1899." PhD diss. Johns Hopkins,
1942; pp. 296-298.
• Children's Periodicals of the United States, ed. R. Gordon
Kelly. Westport, CT & London, England: Greenwood Press, 1984.
The Little Chief ; Jan 1867-Feb 1872
cover/masthead:
1871
edited by: Jan 1867-?, W. W. Dowling • 1868?-1871, A. C.
Shortridge • 1870, "Laura Spring" • 1871, W. J. Button
published: Indianapolis, IN: Dowling & Shortridge, 1867-1868.
• Indianapolis, IN: Shortridge & Alden, Feb-June 1869.
• Indianapolis, IN: A. C. Shortridge, July 1869-June 1870.
• Indianapolis, IN: Shortridge & Button, July 1870-May 1871.
• Indianapolis, IN: Shortridge, Button & Hanley, June-July 1871.
• Indianapolis, IN: Button & Hanley, Aug-Oct 1871.
• Indianapolis, IN: Button & Hobbs, Jan-Feb 1872.
frequency: monthly; 1 vol per year
description: 1871: 32 pp.; page size, 10" h x 7" w; price, 75¢/
year
source of information: Feb 1871 issue; The Bright Side; Lyon;
AAS catalog; NUC
bibliography:
Advertisement. The Bright Side. 2 (March 1870): 14.
• Betty Longenecker Lyon. "A History of Children's Secular Magazines
Published in the United States from 1789-1899." PhD diss. Johns Hopkins,
1942; pp. 244-245.
The Nursery ; Jan 1867-Oct 1880
cover/masthead:
1868 |
1870-1875
edited by: Fanny P. Seavers, 1867-1868
published: Boston, MA: John L. Shorey, Jan 1867-Oct 1880; publisher
at 13 Washington St., Jan 1867-Dec 1869; publisher at 36 Bromfield St., Dec
1870-1872.
frequency: monthly; 2 vol/ year
description: 32 pp.; page size untrimmed, 8.5" h x 6" w; duodecimo;
price, $1.50/ year; 15¢/ issue
• Intended for "youngest readers," the magazine featured tiny stories
in large type; some included pronunciation guides. Each page had at least
one illustration.
• Copyrighted by Fanny P. Seavers, 1867; copyrighted by John L. Shorey,
1869, 1872
continued by: Our Little Ones and the Nursery ; Nov 1880-April 1899
source of information: 1867-1869, 1871-1872 scattered issues and
bound volumes; Lyon; Kelly
available:
microfilm: Nineteenth-century children's periodicals. Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 1979.
bibliography:
Betty Longenecker Lyon. "A History of Children's Secular Magazines
Published in the United States from 1789-1899." PhD diss. Johns Hopkins,
1942; pp. 352-355.
• Children's Periodicals of the United States, ed. R. Gordon
Kelly. Westport, CT & London, England: Greenwood Press, 1984.
The Riverside Magazine for Young People ; Jan 1867-Dec 1870
cover/masthead:
1867-1869
edited by: Horace Elisha Scudder
published: New York, NY: Hurd & Houghton, Jan 1867-Dec 1870.
frequency: monthly; 2 vol/ year
description: 48 pp.; large octavo; page size, 9.5" h x 6.5" w;
prices: 25¢/ each; 1 copy, $2.50/ year; 3 copies, $6.50; 5 copies, $10;
10 copies, $20; 20 copies, $35; clergymen & teachers, $2/ year
• A copy of the Jan 1867 issue was sent in Nov 1867 to each subscriber
to The Evening Post who received the paper by mail; the issue included
a prospectus for the 1868 Riverside.
relevant quote: Conclusion: "I hope the children who have read the
'Riverside' for four years are as sorry to have it come to an end as I am.
But it is a great deal better to have a good thing and enjoy it, than to be
missing things and grieving over not having them. You have had the 'Riverside'
for four years, and I believe you have enjoyed it, for I have not yet seen the
boy or girl who 'hates that old Magazine.' I have seen a great many who like
it thoroughly, and many pleasant letters from old and young make me believe
it, whether I want to or not, and I want to. Now you will never have a fifth
volume of the 'Riverside,' so enjoy the four! And I have had four or five
years of pleasure, editing this Magazine. Nobody can take those away from
me. I have made friends by it that I hope never to lose. I do not expect
to edit any more magazines for young people, but I mean to enjoy the
recollection of the days when I edited the 'Riverside,' and had the pleasure
every month of seeing its bright cover flying away, with its treasure of
story and verse and picture, to gladden the eyes of children whom I never
should see. If the Editor of 'Scribner's Monthly' and my grown up family are
as good friends as we have been, nobody could ask more." ["Good-by." 4 (Dec
1870): 575]
merged with: Scribner's Monthly (for adults)
source of information: 1867-1870 bound vols & scattered issues; Lyon;
Kelly
available: APS III (1850-1900), reel 52
bibliography:
Eleanor Weakley Nolen. "Nineteenth Century Children's Magazines."
The Horn Book Magazine. 15 (January/February 1939): 55-60.
• Mabel F. Altstetter. "Early American Magazines for Children."
Peabody Journal of Education 19 (Nov 1941); p. 133.
• Betty Longenecker Lyon. "A History of Children's Secular Magazines
Published in the United States from 1789-1899." PhD diss. Johns Hopkins,
1942; pp. 199-301.
• Ellen B. Ballou, "Horace Elisha Scudder and the Riverside Magazine."
Harvard Library Bulletin, 14 (Autumn 1960): 426-452.
• R. Gordon Kelly. Mother was a Lady. Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press, 1974.
• Children's Periodicals of the United States, ed. R. Gordon
Kelly. Westport, CT & London, England: Greenwood Press, 1984.
• Gillian Avery. Behold the Child: American Children and Their
Books, 1621-1922. Baltimore, MD; Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994;
pp. 148-150.
Southern Boys' and Girls' Monthly ; Jan 1867-July 1868
edited by: Ebenezer Thompson Baird; William Logan Baird, 1867-1868
published: Richmond, VA: White & Howard, Jan-March 1867.
• Richmond, VA: Messrs. Baird & J. W. Turner, April-Sept 1867.
• Richmond, VA: Messrs. Baird, Oct-Dec 1867.
• Richmond, VA: Baird & Brother, Jan-July 1868.
• Baltimore, MD: Baird & Brother, Jan-July 1868.
frequency: monthly; 1 vol/ year
description: 32 pp.; octavo; price, $1.50/ year
absorbed by:
Burke's Weekly for Boys and Girls • Burke's
Magazine for Boys and Girls ; 6 July 1867-Dec 1871
relevant quote: The merging of the Monthly with Burke's
was announced in Burke's via a note dated 23 July 1868:
"The undersigned [E. T. Baird] announces to the former friends and
patrons of this Monthly, that he has this day agreed on terms with Messrs.
J. W. Burke Co. for merging it into
Burke's Weekly for Boys and Girls. ...
We shall not detain our young friends by any extended remarks assigning
reasons for this arrangement. A word is sufficient. The whole responsibility
for the Monthly has rested on [E. T. Baird], who
was its founder, senior editor, and sole proprietor, and he has utterly
failed to find the time to give to the enterprise which he felt due to his
readers, his correspondents, and himself. The distance at which the junior
editor, Prof. Wm. Logan Baird, resided, rendered it
impossible for him to extend the aid which was requisite to relieve this
weight of responsibility. Hence, what [E. T. Baird] hoped would become a
coveted means of recreation from heavy oficial cares, he has found, in the
midst of the pressure of labor resting on him, to be an incumbrance."
["A Card: To the Subscribers of the Southern Boys' and Girls' Monthly."
Burke's Weekly for Boys and Girls 2 (15 Aug 1868): 52]
source of information: Burke's; Kelly; OCLC
bibliography:
"A Card: To the Subscribers of the Southern Boys' and Girls' Monthly."
Burke's Weekly for Boys and Girls 2 (15 Aug 1868): 52.
• Betty Longenecker Lyon. "A History of Children's Secular Magazines
Published in the United States from 1789-1899." PhD diss. Johns Hopkins,
1942; pp. 144.
• Children's Periodicals of the United States, ed. R. Gordon
Kelly. Westport, CT & London, England: Greenwood Press, 1984.
• Gillian Avery. Behold the Child: American Children and Their
Books, 1621-1922. Baltimore, MD; Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994;
p. 148.
Oliver Optic's Magazine: Our Boys and Girls ; 5 Jan 1867-Dec 1873 • Oliver Optic's Magazine ; Jan 1874-Dec 1875
cover/masthead:
1867 |
1871
edited by: William T. Adams ("Oliver Optic")
published: Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1 Nov 1867-1875; publisher at
149 Washington St.
frequency: 5 Jan 1867-1870, weekly; 2 vol/ year
• 1871-Dec 1875, monthly
description: 5 Jan-June 1867: 12 pp.; octavo; page size untrimmed,
10" h x 6.75" w; price, $2.25/ year
• July 1867-Dec 1870: 16 pp.; price, $2.50/ year; $1.25/ volume
• Jan 1871-1875, 64 pp.; page size untrimmed, 10" h x 7" w.
1871: price, 25¢/ issue; $2.50/ year
• Circulation (from magazine): 1869, 100,000; 1875, 11,000
relevant quotes:
"For several years we have believed that the Young People of the United States
wanted and needed a magazine which should visit them every week, instead of
every month. We know what pleasure the older members of the family derive
from the weekly coming of the religious, agricultural, and literary papers,
and we are confident that the younger branches will experience a similar
satisfaction in the frequent appearance of a publication adapted to their
wants and their tastes. ...
We intend to furnish a magazine which shall interest and amuse Our
Boys and Girls, while it makes them wiser and better. ..." ["Salutatory."
1 (5 Jan 1867): 7.]
source of information: 1868-1870 bound vols & scattered issues; Lyon;
Maxwell; Kelly
available: APS II (1850-1900), reels 1850-1900
bibliography:
Harriet L. Matthews. "Children's Magazines." Bulletin of Bibliography.
1 (April 1899): 133-6.
• Betty Longenecker Lyon. "A History of Children's Secular Magazines
Published in the United States from 1789-1899." PhD diss. Johns Hopkins,
1942; pp. 291-295.
• Checklist of Children's Books, 1837-1876, comp. Barbara Maxwell.
Philadelphia, PA: Special Collections, Central Children's Department,
Free Library of Philadelphia, 1975.
• Children's Periodicals of the United States, ed. R. Gordon
Kelly. Westport, CT & London, England: Greenwood Press, 1984.
• Gillian Avery. Behold the Child: American Children and Their
Books, 1621-1922. Baltimore, MD; Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994;
p. 146.
The School and Fireside ; 11 Jan-after 10 May 1867
edited by: George A. Chase
published: Louisville, KY: Bradley & Gilbert.
frequency: semimonthly, except July & Aug
description: Page size, 12.5" h
source of information: OCLC
The Young Catholic's Guide ; May 1867-April 1870
published: Chicago, IL: John Graham.
frequency: monthly; 1 vol/ year
description: Page size, 8.5" h
source of information: OCLC; NUC
Burke's Weekly for Boys and Girls ; 6 July 1867-10 Dec 1870 • Burke's Magazine for Boys and Girls ; Jan-Dec 1871
cover/masthead:
1868
edited by: T. A. Burke
published: Macon, GA: J. W. Burke, 6 July 1867-Dec 1871.
frequency: weekly, 6 July 1867-10 Dec 1870; 1 vol/ year
• monthly, 1871
description: 6 July 1867-10 Dec 1870: 8 pp.; quarto; page size
untrimmed, 13" h x 10" w. Price: 1 copy, 5¢/ each; 50¢/ three
months; $1/ six months; $2/ year; 10 copies, $15/ year; 20 copies, $30/ year
• Jan-Dec 1871: 48 pp.; page size, 9.5" h
absorbed:
Southern Boys' and Girls' Monthly ;
Jan 1867-July 1868
source of information: Aug 1868 issue; Lyon
bibliography:
Betty Longenecker Lyon. "A History of Children's Secular Magazines
Published in the United States from 1789-1899." PhD diss. Johns Hopkins,
1942; pp. 244.
• Gillian Avery. Behold the Child: American Children and Their
Books, 1621-1922. Baltimore, MD; Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994;
p. 148.
The Sunday School Messenger ; 1868-after June 1875
published: Chicago, IL: Holy Family Sunday School Association.
frequency: monthly; 1 vol/ year
description: 1871: page size, 7.5" h
• June 1875 is vol 8 #6
• Catholic focus
source of information: AAS catalog; ULS; OCLC
Young People's Magazine ; 1868-1887
edited by: P. W. Ziegler
published: Philadelphia, PA
source of information: Lyon
bibliography:
Betty Longenecker Lyon. "A History of Children's Secular Magazines
Published in the United States from 1789-1899." PhD diss. Johns Hopkins,
1942; pp. 245.
The Little Gleaner ; 1868-1869?
edited by: Olive O. Lee
published: Fredericksburg, VA
frequency: monthly?; 1 vol/ year
description: Page size, 9" h • Lyon (and Frank Luther
Mott) say that the magazine began in 1867
source of information: OCLC
bibliography:
Betty Longenecker Lyon. "A History of Children's Secular Magazines
Published in the United States from 1789-1899." PhD diss. Johns Hopkins,
1942; pp. 244.
The Guiding Star: A Sunday Paper for Boys and Girls ; 4 July 1868-1873
edited by: Caroline A. Soule
published: New York, NY: Caroline A. Soule.
frequency: semimonthly
description: Page size, 16.5" h
• Prices: 1 copy, 75¢/ year; 10 copies or more, 50¢/ year,
each
• Universalist focus
source of information: Student and Schoolmate; OCLC
bibliography: Advertisement. The
Student and Schoolmate. 23 (April 1869): inside front cover.
Little Messenger ; July 1868-1 Aug 1873
cover/masthead:
1869
edited by: Aug 1872-Aug 1873, W. H. Hinkley
published: Philadelphia, PA: General Convention of the New Jerusalem
in the United States of America; 1869, publisher at 537 North 22nd St.
frequency: 1 vol/ year • OCLC: monthly; NUC: semimonthly;
Nov 1869, semimonthly
description: 1869: 4 pp; page size, 12.75" h x 9.25" w
source of information: 15 Nov 1869 issue; OCLC; NUC
Boys' and Girls' New Monthly Magazine ; July 1868-
published: Nyack, NY: W. B. Corning, jr.
description: octavo
• Aug 1868 is vol 1 #2
source of information: Lyon; NUC
bibliography:
Betty Longenecker Lyon. "A History of Children's Secular Magazines
Published in the United States from 1789-1899." PhD diss. Johns Hopkins,
1942; pp. 245.
Good Words for the Young ; Nov 1868-Oct 1872
edited by: Norman Macleod, 1868-1869
• George MacDonald, 1869-1872
published: Philadelphia, PA: J. P. Lippincott & Co.
• Also published in London, England
frequency: monthly
continued by: Good Things for the Young of All Ages
source of information: AAS catalog; OCLC
The Young Folks' News ; 16 Dec 1868-1873?
edited by: Alfred Martien
published: Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien; publisher at 21 South
Seventh St., 1869.
frequency: weekly
description: Page size, 17.25" h
• Newspaper format
1869: prices: $1/ year; 50¢/ 9 months
• 23 Dec 1868 is vol 1 #2
relevant quote: "The first number of this new Weekly for the Young
Folks was issued in December last. ... [I]ts circulation now ranks with that
of our most popular Juvenile Periodicals." [advertisement. Our Schoolday
Visitor 13 (Aug 1869): advertising section]
source of information: Our Schoolday Visitor, 1869; NUC; OCLC
Golden Hours ; Jan 1869-1880
cover/masthead:
1869-1871
edited by: 1869-1871, I. W. Wiley; S. W. Williams, assistant editor
• 1872-1874, Erastus Wentworth; S. W. Williams, assistant editor
• 1875-1876, Erastus Wentworth; S. W. Williams; H. V. Osborne
• 1876-1880, Daniel Curry; H. V. Osborne
published: Cincinnati, OH: Hitchcock & Walden. Chicago, IL:
Hitchcock & Walden. St. Louis, MO: Hitchcock & Walden.
• New York, NY: Carlton & Lanahan.
frequency: monthly; 1 vol/ year
description: 1869: 48 pp.; large octavo; page size untrimmed,
9" h x 6.5" w; price, $2/ year
• 1871: 54 pp.; page size untrimmed, 9" h x 6.5" w; price, $2/ year
• 1872: 52 pp.; large octavo; $2/ year
• Methodist focus
relevant quote: The first year, the editor established the
magazine's personality: "We now close the first volume of the Golden Hours.
We look back over the year's labor and anxiety, and glance through the
successive numbers, and feel like congratulating ourselves and our readers
over what has certainly been quite a successful year; at least many of our
friends and readers tell us so. We had many things to study and to
experiment with in getting our little magazine fairly launched in the world.
... We think our young friends have been able to see that, as we went along,
we were gradually settling into a magazine of general interest, treating of
a great variety of sujbects, and adapted to boys and girls ranging from
about ten to fifteen years of age. Every number has contained something
for all ages between these extremes, and even something to be read by the
older brothers and sisters to the 'wee ones.' We have given you a large
variety, history, science, natural history, tales, poetry, selections from
English magazines, and translations from German magazines." [1 (Dec 1869):
575]
source of information: Dec 1869, Jan-Dec 1871 issues; Maxwell; Kelly
bibliography:
Checklist of Children's Books, 1837-1876, comp. Barbara Maxwell.
Philadelphia, PA: Special Collections, Central Children's Department,
Free Library of Philadelphia, 1975.
• Children's Periodicals of the United States, ed. R. Gordon
Kelly. Westport, CT & London, England: Greenwood Press, 1984.
The Little Folks ; 1869-1877
published: Chicago, IL: Adams, Blackmer & Lyon Publishing Co.
frequency: monthly, for weekly distribution
description: Page size, 9.25" h
source of information: Lyon; AAS catalog; OCLC
bibliography:
Betty Longenecker Lyon. "A History of Children's Secular Magazines
Published in the United States from 1789-1899." PhD diss. Johns Hopkins,
1942; pp. 255-256.
Scattered Seeds ; Fifth month (May) 1869-1935
cover/masthead:
1871 |
1872
edited by: 1871-1872, L. H. Hall?; at Box 681, West Chester, PA
published: West Chester, PA: First Day School Association of
Philadelphia.
frequency: monthly; 1 vol/ year
description: 1871: 4 pp.; quarto; page size untrimmed, 12" h x 9" w;
price, 1 copy, 50¢/ year; 10 copies, each 40¢/ year; 20+ copies, each
30¢/ year
• 1872: 16 pp.; page size untrimmed, 8.25" h x 6.5" w; price, 1 copy,
50¢/ year; 10 copies, $4/ year; 20 copies, $7/ year
• Quaker focus
relevant quote:
On the new page size, 1872: "We hope our readers will like our new garb.
It will certainly be more convenient, and will be in better shape for binding.
We intend to present the usual variety of good reading matter,
and good illustrations. Some of our patrons are still desirous that
we should publish Scattered Seeds weekly or
semi-monthly. We must still answer, we would be glad to do so, but cannot
while our present issue does not sustain itself. Aid us all you can friends
by sending in clubs, single names and contributions for the cause." ["Our New
Volume." 4 (Fifth month, 1872): 15-16]
source of information: 1871-1872, scattered issues; OCLC
Zion's Hope ; 1 July 1869-1972
edited by: 1900, Mrs. M. Walker • 1917, Ethel I. Skank
published: Lamoni, IA: Herald Publishing House.
frequency: weekly
description: page size, 7" h x 5" w
• for young children
• The Hope was enlarged in 1886: "Zion's Hope for
November 29[, 1886] came out in an enlarged form and illustrated, making it
more attractive." [History; vol 4, p. 668]
• vol. 49 #33 is 13 Aug 1917
• denominational focus is of Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints
relevant quote: The Saints' Herald, the denominational paper,
announced the founding of Zion's Hope in its 1 July 1869 issue; the
15 June 1869 issue explained more: "Every friend of progress in the church,
every lover of the truth, every father, every mother, every brother, every
sister, is materially affected by the teaching and training of the children
of the household to which each separately belongs. A corner or column of the
Herald is insufficient to meet the great want felt in this direction,
and to give success to any new enterprise engaged in by us as a people, it is
requisite that the object for which we especially strive in that enterprise
be worthy and the effort persistent." [in History; vol 3, p. 528]
source of information: Bauer; History; OCLC
bibliography:
The History of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Independence, MO: Herald, House, 1967; vol 3, 4, & 7.
• Carolyn J. Bauer and Sharon P. Muir. "Visions, Saints and Zion:
Children's Literature of the Mormon Movement." Phaedrus 7
(Spring/Summer 1980): 30-38.
Onward ; Jan-June 1869 • Mayne Reid's Magazine Onward ; July 1869-Feb 1870
edited by: Thomas Mayne Reid; Charles Ollivant, assistant editor
published: New York, NY: G. W. Carleton, Jan-June 1869;
publisher at 119 Nassau St.
• New York, NY: Mayne Reid, July 1869-Feb 1870.
frequency: monthly; 2 vol/ year
description: Jan-June 1869: Jan, 86 pp.; Feb, 94 pp.; March, 86 pp.;
April-May, 90 pp.; June, 92 pp. Page size, 8.5" h x 5.25" w
• Stories, poems, and serialized novels apparently for teenagers
source of information: Jan-June 1869 bound vol; Lyon; Kelly; OCLC
bibliography:
Betty Longenecker Lyon. "A History of Children's Secular Magazines
Published in the United States from 1789-1899." PhD diss. Johns Hopkins,
1942; pp. 261.
• Children's Periodicals of the United States, ed. R. Gordon
Kelly. Westport, CT & London, England: Greenwood Press, 1984.
The Bright Side ; July 1869-after 12 Aug 1871 • The Bright Side and Family Circle ; -after 29 June 1873
cover/masthead:
1870 |
1871
published: Chicago, IL: John B. Alden & Co.; printed by Church,
Goodman & Donnelley? (printers at 108 & 110 Dearborn St), July 1869-1870?
• Chicago, IL: Bright Side Co., 9 Feb 1871-1873?; at 154 Washington
St., 1871
frequency: 1869-early 1870: monthly
• late 1870: also available in weekly or semimonthly editions
• 1871: available in weekly or semimonthly editions
description: March 1870: 16 pp. (includes 3 pages of advertising);
page size, 13" h x 9.5" w
• 12 Aug 1871: 8 pp.; quarto; page size untrimmed, 12.5"
h x 9.5" w
• 1873, 11.75" h
• Prices: early 1870: monthly, 50¢/ year; single copy, 5¢.
late 1870: monthly, 25¢/ year; semimonthly, 50¢/ year; weekly, $1/ year.
1871: weekly, 1 copy, 3¢ $1/ year; semimonthly, 25¢/ year
• March 1870 is vol 2 #3 (whole number 9)
• AAS copies: vol 1 #1 (July 1869)-vol 3 #55 (6 April 1871); vol 3 #58
(27 April 1871); 29 June 1873 issue of Bright Side and Family Circle is
vol 5 #26 (whole #119), which makes it appear that this title is an extension
of The Bright Side
• Feb 1870: 20,000 copies printed
• Beginning with the March 1870 issue, the periodical was electrotyped,
"so we can print as they are wanted." [2 (March 1870: 16]
• The masthead changed on 9 Feb 1871: "Something new in our
head--paper's head, we mean--this week. We hope it is but a symbol of what
occurs to our individual heads every day! Those neat, vine-bordered ovals,
we intend shall be pretty enough and good enough to notice every week."
[3 (9 Feb 1871): 6]
relevant quote: "Unexcelled in beauty. The cheapest paper in the
world. Vigorous and lively. Thoroughly Christian. ... The largest
circulation of any children's paper or magazine in the world, considering the
length of time published." [The Children's Hour (Oct 1870): inside
back cover]
source of information: March 1870, 9 Feb 1871, 12 Aug 1871 issues;
Children's Hour; Golden Hours; AAS catalog
bibliography: Advertisement. The Children's
Hour (Oct 1870): inside back cover.
• Advertisement. Golden Hours,
3 (June 1871): p. 2, advertising section.
Sunday School Companion ; Jan 1869-1904
published: Chicago, IL: Holy Family Sunday School Association.
frequency: monthly
description: Page size, 10.25" h
• Catholic focus
source of information: OCLC; ULS
The Young Crusader (also Young Crusader) ; Jan 1869-Oct 1875?
published: Boston, MA
• Bound volumes: Boston, MA: Kivlan & Cashman, 1869-1872. Boston,
MA: the Young Crusader Office, 1874. Boston, MA: J. Cashman, 1876.
frequency: monthly
description: Page size, 9.75" h
source of information: NUC; OCLC
The Young American ; April-Dec 1869
edited by: J. E. Baker; F. W. Breed, jr; W. H. Marvin; W. P. Dean;
Porter Norton
published: Buffalo, NY: Young American.
frequency: monthly
description: Page size, 11.75" h
• Perhaps an amateur publication
source of information: AAS catalog; OCLC; NUC
Der Jugend-Pilger (Youth pilgrim); 1870-1914?
edited by: 1870-1895, Wilhelm Mittendorf • Arndt lists later
editors
published: Dayton, OH: Publishing House of the United Brethren in
Christ Church, 1870-1914.
frequency: 1870-1874, monthly; 1874-1914, semimonthly
description: Organ of United Brethren in Christ Church
• German-language periodical
source of information: Arndt; Fraser
bibliography:
Karl J. R. Arndt & May E. Olson. German-American Newspapers and
Periodicals: 1732-1955. Heidelberg: Quelle & Meyer Publishers, 1961.
• Sybille Fraser. "German Language Children's and Youth Periodicals in
North America: A Checklist." Phaedrus 6 (Spring 1979): 27-31.
The Infants' Delight (also Infants' Delight) ; 1870-after Jan 1872
published: Boston, MA: Lee & Shepard.
frequency: monthly; 1 vol/ year
description: Page size, 8.25" h
• Intended for small children: large font size
source of information: Lyon; OCLC
bibliography:
Betty Longenecker Lyon. "A History of Children's Secular Magazines
Published in the United States from 1789-1899." PhD diss. Johns Hopkins,
1942; pp. 256.
The Pacific Youth ; 1870-
edited by: Collins Brothers, 1871
published: San Francisco, CA: W. C. Forde & Co.
• San Francisco, CA: Collins Bros., 1871.
frequency: weekly
description: Page size, 13" h
• 15 June 1871 is new series vol 1 #22
source of information: OCLC
Pictures and Stories ; 1870-
published: Nashville, TN
source of information: Kelly
bibliography:
Children's Periodicals of the United States, ed. R. Gordon Kelly.
Westport, CT & London, England: Greenwood Press, 1984.
Young Folks' Monthly ; 1870-1883
published: Chicago, IL: H. N. F. Lewis.
frequency: monthly
description: Page size, 15.25" h
source of information: Lyon; OCLC
bibliography:
Betty Longenecker Lyon. "A History of Children's Secular Magazines
Published in the United States from 1789-1899." PhD diss. Johns Hopkins,
1942; pp. 252.
Young Folks' Rural ; 1870-1881
edited by: H. N. F. Lewis
published: Chicago, IL: H. N. F. Lewis, 1872.
• Chicago, IL: J. D. Tallmadge & E. B. Tallmadge, 1881.
frequency: monthly
description: Page size, 17.75" h
• Sept 1872 is vol 3 #1 (whole #22)
source of information: Lyon; AAS
bibliography:
Betty Longenecker Lyon. "A History of Children's Secular Magazines
Published in the United States from 1789-1899." PhD diss. Johns Hopkins,
1942; pp. 252.
The Young Sportsman ; 1870?-after April 1872
published: Portsmouth, NH: W. L. Terhune, Frank L. Howard, Reed Campbell.
frequency: monthly?
description: Amateur publication • Newspaper format
• April 1872 is vol 3 #3, old series
source of information: OCLC
The Young Sportsman ; Jan 1870-?
edited by: Edwin Farwell
published: Boston, MA
frequency: monthly
description: Page size, 11.75" h
source of information: AAS catalog
The Little Corporal's School Festival ; Jan-July 1870 • The School Festival (also National School Festival) ; Aug 1870-1874
edited by: April 1871-March 1873, Alfred L. Sewell; Mary B. C.
Slade
• April 1873-, T. A. Hutchins; Mary B. C. Slade
published: Chicago, IL: Sewell & Miller, Jan 1870-Jan 1871.
• Chicago, IL: Alfred L. Sewell & Co., 1871-1872.
• East Boston, MA: n. p., April 1873-?
frequency: quarterly
description: 40 pp.?; page size, 7.75" h; price: 1 copy, 15¢
50¢/ year
relevant quotes:
• Announcement: "This beautiful magazine, devoted entirely to School
Exhibitions, Dialogues, Tableaux, Recitations, etc., is ready for January.
All are delighted with it. It is just what is needed by every teacher and
every scholar." (Little Corporal)
• Later advertisements described the contents more fully: "'THE SCHOOL
FESTIVAL' is a beautiful original quarterly Magazine, devoted to new,
sparkling Dialogues, Recitations, Concert, Motion, and other Exercises for
Sunday School and Day School Exhibitions, Concerts, 'Public Days,' &c. ...
Needed by all teachers and pupils." (Golden Hours)
source of information: Little Corporal; Golden Hours;
AAS catalog; OCLC; NUC
bibliography:
"The School Festival." The Little Corporal.
10 (10 (Jan 1870): 12.
• advertisement. Golden Hours,
3 (June 1871): p. 2, advertising section.
Work and Play ; Jan 1870-March 1872
edited by: Mrs. H. L. Bridgman
published: Boston, MA: Milton Bradley & Co.
frequency: monthly; 1 vol/ year
description: 16 pp.; quarto; page size, 11.25" h
absorbed by: The Little Corporal ; July 1865-April 1875
relevant quote: The merger with the Corporal was announced in
that magazine's April 1872 issue: "By an arrangement made with the
publishers, Milton Bradley & Co., Springfield, Mass., the publication of
[Work and Play] will hereafter be discontinued, and its subscribers
will be supplied with the Little Corporal
for the unexpired term of their subscription. ... Work and Play was
established with the express purpose of 'increasing the interest in rational
and instructive home amusements and occupations throughout the country.' The
work accomplished and the reputation achieved by this magazine in the peculiar
field to which it was devoted, has been very great,and much good has resulted.
Considering the character and excellence of Work and Play, the
Corporal thinks he has obtained a distinguished
recruit--and he welcomes all the friends of that magazine to the ranks of his
great army with the assurance that he will do everything in his power to
make it profitable and pleasant to them. We are glad to announce in this
connection that Uncle Raphael will continue his excellent articles on
Drawing, which had become so popular in Work and Play. The first of
these articles will appear in the next number of the
Corporal. Now for a vigorous campaign!"
[Corporal 14 (April 1872): 154] Beginning with the May 1872 issue,
the puzzle column in the Corporal, which had been called "Private
Queer's Knapsack," was retitled "Work and Play."
source of information: Little Corporal; OCLC;
Lyon
bibliography:
Editorial announcement. The Little Corporal, 14 (April 1872): 154.
• Betty Longenecker Lyon. "A History of Children's Secular Magazines
Published in the United States from 1789-1899." PhD diss. Johns Hopkins,
1942; pp. 308-312.
The Pious Youth ; Jan 1870-Dec 1871
edited by: H. R. Holsinger
published: Tyrone, PA: H. R. Holsinger.
• Dale City, PA: H. R. Holsinger, Oct-Nov 1871.
frequency: monthly; 1 vol/ year
description: 1870, page size, 10.5" h
• 1871, page size, 8.5" h
• Church of the Brethren focus
source of information: AAS catalog; OCLC
Our Leisure Moments ; Feb 1870-1900s
edited by: Albert C. Ives; Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh
published: Buffalo, NY
frequency: monthly
description: Octavo
• Amateur publication
source of information: OCLC
American Boy's Magazine (also Philadelphia Monthly) ; June 1870-May 1872
published: Philadelphia, PA
frequency: monthly
description: Vol 1-2 #6 (1870-Feb 1872) as Philadelphia Monthly
source of information: NUC
The Young Catholic ; Oct 1870-
published: New York, NY: Catholic Publication Society.
frequency: monthly
description: Page size, 13.75" h
source of information: AAS catalog; OCLC
Our Little Friend ; about 1871
published: Mountain View, CA
source of information: Kelly
bibliography:
Children's Periodicals of the United States, ed. R. Gordon
Kelly. Westport, CT & London, England: Greenwood Press, 1984.
Apples of Gold ; 1871-1917
published: Boston, MA: Hurd & Houghton, for the American Tract Society.
frequency: weekly
source of information: OCLC
Every Boy's Magazine ; 1871-
edited by: William Rideing; 1871, 4 Province Court
published: Boston, MA
frequency: monthly
description: 1871 price, 50¢/ year
relevant quote: "The Cheapest Magazine in the Country." "As its
name implies, EVERY BOY'S MAGAZINE is a periodical for youth of all ages, and
it well fulfills the comprehensiveness of its title. In it boys will find
all their diversified interests well attended to. Writers of the first rank
contribute to its pages, and while it does not claim to be a religious paper,
its purpose is to elevate, instruct, and make better." (advertisement,
Little Chief, Feb 1871)
source of information: Little Chief; AAS catalog
bibliography: Advertisement. Little
Chief. 5 (Feb 1871): inside back cover.
Der Kinder-Bote (Children's messenger); 1871-?
edited by: A. O. Brickmann
published: Philadelphia, PA
frequency: monthly
description: Sunday-school paper of the Church of the New Jerusalem
• Swedenborgian focus
• German-language periodical
source of information: Arndt; Fraser
bibliography:
Karl J. R. Arndt & May E. Olson. German-American Newspapers and
Periodicals: 1732-1955. Heidelberg: Quelle & Meyer Publishers, 1961.
• Sybille Fraser. "German Language Children's and Youth Periodicals in
North America: A Checklist." Phaedrus 6 (Spring 1979): 27-31.
Little Christian ; 1871-1904?
published: Boston, MA: H. L. Hastings.
frequency: monthly
description: Page size, 10.5" h
• May be supplement for The Christian (1866-after 1872)
source of information: NUC; OCLC
Lutherisches Kinder- und Jugendblatt (Lutheran children's and young people's paper); Jan 1871-Dec 1938
edited by: L. W. Dorn; Johann Paul Beyer
published: St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House, Jan 1871-Dec
1938.
frequency: monthly
description: 16 pp.; quarto
• Organ of the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and
other states
• German-language periodical
source of information: Arndt; Fraser
bibliography:
Karl J. R. Arndt & May E. Olson. German-American Newspapers and
Periodicals: 1732-1955. Heidelberg: Quelle & Meyer Publishers, 1961.
• Sybille Fraser. "German Language Children's and Youth Periodicals in
North America: A Checklist." Phaedrus 6 (Spring 1979): 27-31.
The Sunday-School Magazine ; Jan 1871-Dec 1931 • Church School Magazine
published: Nashville, TN: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, Jan 1871-Dec 1931.
frequency: monthly; 1 vol/ year
description: Page size, 8.5" h
source of information: OCLC
Young Israel (also Libanon) ; Jan 1871-1900?
edited by: Louis Schnabel; Morris Brecher
published: New York, NY: L. Schnabel & M. Brecher, the Hebrew
Orphan Asylum Printing Establishment.
frequency: monthly
description: Page size, 9.5" h
• Oct 1875-May 1878: includes Libanon, German supplement
continued by: Israel's Home Journal
source of information: NUC; OCLC
bibliography: Naomi M. Patz and Philip E. Miller. "Jewish Religious
Children's Literature in America: An Analytical Survey." Phaedrus
7 (Spring/Summer 1980): 19-29.
Morning Light ; Jan 1871-
published: New York, NY: American Tract Society.
frequency: monthly
description: Page size, 10" h
continues: Our School and Our Home
source of information: AAS catalog; OCLC
Young Folks Journal (also Little Things); March 1871-May 1874
published: Brinton, PA
frequency: monthly
description: Amateur publication
source of information: NUC
Our Young Folks' Illustrated Paper ; 1 Oct 1871-15 Dec 1873
edited by: E. C. Allen
published: Augusta, ME: E. C. Allen & Co.
frequency: semimonthly
description: 8 pp.; quarto; page size, 15.75" h x 11" w; price,
$1/ year
• Circulation (from magazine): 1,000,000 copies of Oct 1871 issue; 15
Dec 1871, 500,000
• In 1871-1872, each issue included an engraving and biography of
"distinguished scholars" in various high schools, mostly in Augusta; the
column was similar to one appearing in 1872 in
Frank Leslie's Boys' and Girls' Weekly.
relevant quote: The second issue promised great things: "Our Young
Folks' Illustrated Paper [h]as now been before the public long enough for us
to ascertain how well we have succeeded in catering to please the young
people, and old people, too, who have young hearts. We are very much
flattered at our success at getting up the paper, which we are assured by
thousands of subscribers in all parts of the country, is just such a
publication as they have long desired, and will patronize as long as it is
kept up to its present standard. We assure all that our efforts shall be
untiring, and our money shall be expended without stint, for all necessary
purposes ever to make Our Young Folks' Illustrated Paper, the most interesting,
useful, entertaining, and elevating young folks' publication in the world."
[1 (15 Oct 1871): 12]
continued by: The Maine State Magazine
source of information: Oct 1871-Aug 1872, scattered issues (located
in Winterthur Library, Wilmington, DE); Lyon; AAS catalog; OCLC
bibliography:
Betty Longenecker Lyon. "A History of Children's Secular Magazines
Published in the United States from 1789-1899." PhD diss. Johns Hopkins,
1942; pp. 313-315.
Boys' Ledger ; 1872
source of information: Kelly
bibliography:
Children's Periodicals of the United States, ed. R. Gordon
Kelly. Westport, CT & London, England: Greenwood Press, 1984.
Der Kinderfreund (The children's friend); 1872-1874?
edited by: J. B. A. Ahrens
published: New Orleans, LA: J. B. A. Ahrens.
frequency: monthly
description: Organ of the German Methodist Church, Southern Louisiana
Conference
• German-language periodical
source of information: Arndt; Fraser
bibliography:
Karl J. R. Arndt & May E. Olson. German-American Newspapers and
Periodicals: 1732-1955. Heidelberg: Quelle & Meyer Publishers, 1961.
• Sybille Fraser. "German Language Children's and Youth Periodicals in
North America: A Checklist." Phaedrus 6 (Spring 1979): 27-31.
Our Little Ones ; 1872-1931 • Story World ; 1931-after 31 Aug 1969
published: Philadelphia, PA: American Baptist Publication Society.
• Later issues: Valley Forge, PA: American Baptist Board of Education
and Publication.
frequency: weekly
source of information: AAS catalog; OCLC
Der Schutzengel (The guardian angel); 1872-1875?
frequency: monthly
description: 16 pp.; large quarto
• Roman Catholic focus
• German-language periodical
source of information: Arndt; Fraser
bibliography:
Karl J. R. Arndt & May E. Olson. German-American Newspapers and
Periodicals: 1732-1955. Heidelberg: Quelle & Meyer Publishers, 1961.
• Sybille Fraser. "German Language Children's and Youth Periodicals in
North America: A Checklist." Phaedrus 6 (Spring 1979): 27-31.
What Next? ; March 1872-1874
published: Chicago, IL: John B. Alden.
frequency: monthly
source of information: AAS catalog; OCLC
The Young Cadet ; Aug 1872-
edited by: Willett Hyatt
published: Poughkeepsie, NY: Willett J. Hyatt.
description: Newspaper format
• Amateur publication
source of information: OCLC
The Young Folks Gem ; Nov 1872-after Oct 1873
published: Wadsworth, OH: John Clarke.
• Sharon Center, OH: John Clarke.
frequency: monthly
description: Page size, 7.75" h
• Newspaper format • Amateur publication: "A journal for the young
folks and old folks with young hearts"
source of information: NUC; AAS catalog; OCLC
The Laurel Wreath ; 1872?-after 1874
edited by: William Worth Dowling, 1874
published: Indianapolis, IN: William Worth Dowling.
frequency: quarterly
description: 1874 is vol 3
source of information: AAS catalog
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