Alternatively, you may read about nineteenth-century magazines in the reference books below, find a couple that strike your fancy, look for them in MnCat, note their locations and the years we own, and then locate them or have them paged and browse through them to discover what you can find. You might choose, from this reading, to examine the North American Review, Atlantic Monthly, Lippincott's Magazine, Literary World, Literary Digest, Critic, Scribner's Monthly, Putnam's Magazine, or any of many others. Please ask library staff for help. Our large library system can be difficult to understand, and the staff want to help you work as efficiently as possible. Photocopying You will be much better off if you plan to read and take notes.
Many old periodicals are very large and difficult to photocopy.
It often takes several sheets of paper to photocopy one over-sized page. Often it's faster simply to read and take notes than it is to go to the photocopy service and either stand in line, or leave your materials and return to pick up the copies. And when you read and take notes, the information goes through your head. Please handle the 19th-century journals carefully. Their brittle bindings break easily, especially if they're crushed down onto photo-copy machines.