About The Harper's Bazaar Archive‎ (1867 - current)
Description: The Harper's Bazaar Archive offers access to the backfiles of both the US and UK editions of Harper’s Bazaar. In combination, these publications comprise almost 500,000 pages of content, from 1867 to the present, representing a vast and indispensable resource for the study of fashion and related fields. The US edition is the world’s oldest continuously published fashion magazine and an authority in the fashion world, focusing on cultivating an elegant and sophisticated aesthetic for an affluent readership. The UK edition is similarly venerable and renowned, containing many decades of high-quality fashion and lifestyle content, aimed at a discerning audience. This material provides a powerful lens into American, British, and international fashion, as well as popular culture and society, from the mid-19th century forward. It chronicles more than 150 years of some of the most influential work of acclaimed designers, photographers, stylists, and illustrators. The archive will support research in a wide variety of fields, including women’s studies, fashion, marketing / advertising, material culture, design, and social history. The Harper’s Bazaar Archive features the backfile of the US edition, from its first issue in 1867 to the present, with current issues loaded on an ongoing basis. Coverage of the UK edition is from the first issue in 1929 through to a fixed termination date of 2015. Issues are scanned from cover to cover in full color, while all editorial content and pictorial features are indexed as separate documents to allow for easy search and discovery*. For advertisements, the featured company and brand names have been assigned to the document records where possible, and all image captions are captured to a high degree of accuracy, allowing precise retrieval of photographs and illustrations. Contributor names that appear in image credits are also indexed. Our policy is to include every issue from the first and to scan from cover to cover. Due to the rarity of some of the original print volumes, there are small gaps (issues or pages). Approximately 98% of the pages from the print run are available.

Concurrent Users: unlimited

Other info: always proxy off-campus, provides full text

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