Godies Magazines

[Stonewall_Greyfox]

Looking for online source for Godeys Magazines. Also looking for them in a print version.

Paul B. Boulden Jr.

RAH VA MIL '04

[Anna Allen]

Re: Godies Magazines

You might want to get a subscription to Accessible Archives. They have all of the years Godey's was published and the subscription price is quite reasonable. I think it's like $20 (or was it $30?) for a month and $60 for a year.
Also, GW Specialties sells printed issues, I believe.

[Anna Worden Bauersmith]

Re: Godies Magazines

I think one of the Making of America sites has some of them as well.
(can’t get there today to double check for you)

http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moajrnl/

http://library5.library.cornell.edu/moa/

Anna Worden

[KittyK]

Re: Godey's Magazines

You could also try Hope Greenberg's website. She has some issues posted there. They are not a complete run, but there are still some interesting things.

http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/godey/godeytitle.html

Sincerely,
Katharine Kolb

[markj]

Re: Godies Magazines

Here's another idea:

Just surf around on eBay--original copies are for sale there all the time. Bound volumes of "Godey's" are offered on a fairly regular basis.

If you're not interested in purchasing them, you can still frequently pick up interesting extracts and color photos of the original tinted illustrations.

To wit:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=29223&item=4211385371&rd=1

Regards,

Mark Jaeger

[Matt Caldwell]

Re: Godies Magazines

Here's another idea:

Just surf around on eBay--original copies are for sale there all the time. Bound volumes of "Godey's" are offered on a fairly regular basis.

If you're not interested in purchasing them, you can still frequently pick up interesting extracts and color photos of the original tinted illustrations.

To wit:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=29223&item=4211385371&rd=1

Regards,

Mark Jaeger

This is true, however, at the modest price of $75-$300 per bound volume, this would be quite expensive. My wife and I like to find ours at Flea Markets and Antique shows where the dealers are none the wiser. We have 5 bound volumes that we picked up for as little as $11.00 and as expensive as $35.00 for an 1861 Petersons. They are still out there, all you have to do is keep an eye out for them.

On a side note, there are some other publications out there in mass from the period or before that are chalked full of educated essays concerning issues of the day in a magazine called "Putnams's Monthly". I picked up 3 volumes, at an antique shop in Columbus Ohio last weekend, ranging from 1855-1857 for $3.50 per volume. Some of the content concerning issues of race blew my mind.