A popular pastime for people interested in popular culture and history is browsing old magazine covers. Many people continue to perform this activity in our collection of back issues here at the Main Library, but some magazine Web sites allow one to peruse these artifacts from a computer.
Here is a sampling of just a few:
Life Magazine (http://www.life.com/Life/cover_search/).
Life has a full archive of covers that begin as far back as 1936 . One can search the archive by keyword or date as well as a few slide show collections such as "Most famous Life covers".
Time Magazine (http://www.time.com/time/coversearch)
Time also has a full archive of covers that range back to 1923. It also provides keyword searching and have a few featured searches, such as "This Week in History" which shows the covers from issues 5, 10, 20, and 50 years ago.
Sports Illustrated (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_online/covers/)
Sports Illustrated offers a similar archive that begins in 1954. One can also locate covers by searching for any author of the cover stories. This is available through the advanced search page.
Rolling Stone (http://www.rollingstone.com/photos/covers)
The magazine cover archive of Rolling Stone is another conduit for seeing iconic historical timepieces, starting in 1967.
Vogue UK (http://www.vogue.co.uk/CoverArchive/)
Fashion magazines are another popular subject for cover searches. Vogue UK offers searches by year (going back to 1916), by model, and by artist/photographer.
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