Description

This is a group of six indexes to 350 American periodicals covering 1730 to 1850. The index categories include:

a) General prose (essays, letters, autobiographies, biographies, reminiscences etc) 
b) Fiction
 c) Poetry    
 d) Book reviews
 e) Songs
 f) Subjects (especially strong in names of persons and places, uses LCSH) .

This is not a full-text source, but most of the periodicals cited are available in the American Periodical Series, which is available as APS Online. Coverage of the American Periodical Series 1800-1850 is also available in microfilm.  Journal titles are in BISON.

Location

Early American Periodicals Index to 1850 is available in Microprint in the Capen Multimedia Center at call number MicPrint AI3 .E27

Access

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