With a name like THE LITERARY DIGEST you'd think it was a magazine of book news and reviews, but even in its earlier days it carried news and analysis and opinion articles. Over time it became more like a weekly newsmagazine.
At first it presented a cover consisting only of a list of articles and other contents. In the early 1900's it began using painted and drawn covers on a regular basis, though at first it worked with only a few different designs, using them in rotation or for a few weeks. By the 'teens it was giving the reader a new color cover (more or less illustrating some current news) with each issue. By the 1920's it had changed intent again, now running full-color reproductions of famous, or at least comforting, paintings. In its last years it experimented with a variety of photographic and photomontage techniques.
- Literary Digest 1897-04-03 3285 visits
- Literary Digest 1906-01-27 2820 visits
- Literary Digest 1908-05-02 3173 visits
- Literary Digest 1908-06-27 2364 visits
- Literary Digest 1908-10-03 2633 visits
- Literary Digest 1908-11-28 2273 visits
- Literary Digest 1909-07-03 2805 visits
- Literary Digest 1915-12-11 2493 visits
- Literary Digest 1915-12-25 1917 visits
- Literary Digest 1916-07-01 3174 visits
- Literary Digest 1917-01-10 2927 visits
- Literary Digest 1918-07-06 2007 visits
- Literary Digest 1918-07-27 255 visits
- Literary Digest 1919-11-22 3165 visits
- Literary Digest 1920-02-21 1516 visits
- Literary Digest 1920-10-30 4924 visits
- Literary Digest 1921-01-01 1744 visits
- Literary Digest 1921-01-08 1610 visits
- Literary Digest 1921-01-15 1157 visits
- Literary Digest 1921-01-22 1296 visits
- Literary Digest 1921-01-29 1263 visits
- Literary Digest 1921-02-05 1190 visits
- Literary Digest 1921-02-12 1381 visits
- Literary Digest 1921-02-19 1419 visits
- Literary Digest 1921-02-26 995 visits
- Literary Digest 1921-06-18 2076 visits
- Literary Digest 1921-07-02 1848 visits
- Literary Digest 1921-07-23 2057 visits
- Literary Digest 1922-02-11 1166 visits
- Literary Digest 1924-11-29 3141 visits
- Literary Digest 1924-12-20 3099 visits
- Literary Digest 1924-12-27 3336 visits
- Literary Digest 1928-03-24 1377 visits
- Literary Digest 1928-05-19 1617 visits
- Literary Digest 1928-10-20 3817 visits
- Literary Digest 1928-12-22 317 visits
- Literary Digest 1931-04-04 2083 visits
- Literary Digest 1931-04-11 1919 visits
- Literary Digest 1931-04-18 2075 visits
- Literary Digest 1931-04-25 2381 visits
- Literary Digest 1931-05-02 1901 visits
- Literary Digest 1931-05-09 1809 visits
- Literary Digest 1931-05-16 2030 visits
- Literary Digest 1931-05-23 1959 visits
- Literary Digest 1931-05-30 1798 visits
- Literary Digest 1931-06-06 1807 visits
- Literary Digest 1931-06-13 1955 visits
- Literary Digest 1931-06-20 1907 visits
- Literary Digest 1931-06-27 1963 visits
- Literary Digest 1933-12-23 1304 visits
- Literary Digest 1933-12-30 3344 visits
- Literary Digest 1934-05-05 3368 visits
- Literary Digest 1937-03-27 2142 visits
- Literary Digest 1937-04-03 1614 visits
- Literary Digest 1937-04-24 2149 visits