Primary Sources - Journals
These Primary Sources are arranged firstly by country of publication, then alphabetically by title.
England
La belle assemblée; or, Bell's court and fashionable magazine. London : Printed by and for J. Bell, 1806‐1832.
Volumes available: v.1 (1806) ‐ v.7 (1809);
new ser., v.1 (1810) ‐ v.30 (1824);
3rd ser., v.1 (1825) ‐ v.7 (1828:June)
Public Online Access- HathiTrust
The Englishwoman's domestic magazine. London : S. O. Beeton, 1852-1879.
Volumes available: n.s., v.1:no.1 (1860:May) ‐ v.1:no.6 (1860:Oct.);
n.s., v.6:no.31 (1862:Nov.) ‐ v.6:no.36 (1863:Apr.)
Public Online Access-HathiTrust
Public Online Access-Google Books
The lady's magazine : or entertaining companion for the fair sex, appropriated solely to their use and amusement. Lady's magazine. London, England : 1770
The lady's magazine : or entertaining companion for the fair sex, appropriated solely to their use and amusement. Lady's magazine. London, England : 1770
Volumes available: 2nd ser., v.3 (1822) - v.10 (1829)
The queen. London : s.n., 1861-1970.
Volumes available: 1869:Feb. 13:pp.97-100; Feb. 27:pp.135-138; Sept. 18:pp.173-176; Oct.
9:pp.209-212
1870:Jan. 22:pp.53-56; Feb. 12:pp.101-104
1871:May 6:pp.295-298; May 20:pp.327-330
1883:May 26:pp.471-474; June 16:pp.563-566; June 30:pp.611-614; Sept. 8:pp.225-226,231-234
1893:May 20:pp.801-832; May 27:pp.854-892; June 24:pp.1044-1082; July 8:pp.57-88; Nov.11:pp.790-820
1897:July 3:pp.25-26; July 10:pp.83-84
Townsend's monthly selection of Parisian costumes. London : J. Townsend. [1825?]-
Volumes available: no.52,56,58,65,72,74,80
World of fashion and continental feuilletons
Public Online Access-Google Books
Ladies Monthly Magazine. The World of Fashion
France
Costumes parisiens de la fin du 18ème siècle et du commencement du 19ème
[A collection of plates arranged in annual volumes. Originally published as Journal des dames et des modes.]. Paris : Journal des dames, [1798?]-
Art, goût, beauté : feuillets de l'élégance féminine. Paris : Albert Godde, Bedin, 1921‐1933.
Volumes available: no.1 (1920:Sept.); no.4 (1920:Nov./Dec.) ‐ no.13 (1921:Sept.); no.42
(1924:Feb.) ‐ no.43 (1924:Mar.); no.48 (1924:Aug.) ‐ no.49 (1924:Sept.);
no.52 (1924:noël); no.54 (1925:Feb.) ‐ no.55 (1925:Mar.); no.60
(1925:Aug.) ‐ no.61 (1925:Sept.); no.67 (1926:Mar.) ‐ no.68 (1926:Apr.);
no.72 (1926:Aug.) ‐ no.73 (1926:Sept.); no.146 (1932:Oct.) ‐ no.152
(1933:Apr.)
Public Online Access--Bibliothèque nationale de France
Falbalas & fanfreluches : almanach des modes présentes, passées & futures pour 1922[-1926] Paris : J. Meynial, 1921-1925.
Volumes available: 1922 volume
Public Online Access- Archive.org
Femina. Paris : Pierre Lafitte, 1901‐1951.
Volumes available: [v.3 (1903) ‐ v.13 (1913)] (scattered issues]
Agenda femina : petite encyclopédie de la femme: Paris : Éditions Pierre Lafitte, [192-?]-
Gazette du bon ton. Paris : E. Levy ; Berlin : P. Cassirer, 1912-1925.
Volumes available: v.1:no.1 (1912:Nov.) ‐ v.7:no.9 (1924/1925)
Public Online Access-Smithsonian
Public Online Access-Bibliothèque nationale de France
-Note: This is the only complete physical set in Canada and the digitized copies available through the Smithsonian and BNF are slightly different
Journal des dames et des modes. Paris : Bureau du Journal des dames, 1912-1914
Volumes available: no.1 (1912:June 1) ‐ no.79 (1914:Aug. 1)
Public Online Access-Bibliothèque nationale de France
Journal des demoiselles Paris : Au Bureau du Journal
Public Online Access-Archive.org
La guirlande : album mensuel d'art et de littérature. Paris : M. François Bernouard, 1919-[1921]
Volumes available: fasc.4; fasc.10
Public Online Access-Archive.org
-Note: There is also plate from this magazine in Barbier’s Collection of miscellaneous illustrations
La guirlande des mois. Paris : J. Meynial, 1917‐1921.
Volumes available: 1917 ‐ 1921
La mode illustreé. Paris : MM. Firmin Didot frères, fils et cie, 1860‐1937.
Volumes available: 1906:no.50 (Dec. 16)‐no.52 (Dec. 30);
1907:no.2 (Jan. 13)‐no.19 (May 12); no.22 (June 2)‐no.25 (June 23); no.32
(Aug. 11); no.35 (Sept. 1); no.37 (Sept. 15); no.39 (Sept. 29)‐no.41 (Oct.
13); no.43 (Oct. 27)‐no.44 (Nov. 3); no.47 (Nov. 24)‐no.50 (Dec. 15);
1908:no.6 (Feb. 9)‐no.7 (Feb. 16); no.24 (June 14)‐no.44(Nov. 1);
1909:no.2 (Jan. 10)‐no.4 (Jan. 24); no.10 (Mar. 7)‐no.12 (Mar. 21); no.14
(Apr. 4); no.16 (Apr. 18)‐no.38 (Sept. 19); no.40 (Oct. 3)‐no.50 (Dec. 12);
1910:no.1 (Jan. 2)‐no.5 (Jan. 30); no.7 (Feb. 13)‐no.8 (Feb. 20); no.10
(Mar. 6)‐no.11 (Mar. 13); no.14 (Apr. 3)‐no.22 (May 29)
Public Online Access-Note: website is in German
L'illustration. Illustration Paris :, 1843-1944.
Volumes available: [1921-1922]; 1923:Noël; [1924]; 1927:Dec.; 1928:May 12; 1928:Noël; v.91:no.4708 (1933:May 27); 1934:Noël; v.93:no.4812 (1935:May 25)
Public Online Access-Penn State Compilation of freely available digitized copies
United States of America
Godey's lady's book. Philadelphia : L.A. Godey, 1840‐1858.
Volumes available: v.41 (1850:July-Dec.) - v.42 (1851:Jan.-June); v.54 (1857:Jan.-June)
Godey's lady's book and magazine. Philadelphia : L.A. Godey, 1859‐1887.
Volumes available: v.58 (1859) - v.84:no.510 (1872:Dec.); v.103:no.675 (1886:Sept.)
Godey's lady's book 1887‐1892. Philadelphia, Pa. : [s.n.], 1887‐1892.
Volumes available: v.118:no.703 (1889:Jan.) - v.118:no.708 (1889:June)
Public Online Access-Godey's lady's book
Public Online Access-Godey's magazine
Harper’s Bazaar (1867-present)
Limited Public Online Access-HathiTrust
*Note: There is also physical fashion plate from this magazine in Barbier’s Collection of miscellaneous illustrations
Harper's new monthly magazine
Happy Hours: A Domestic Magazine of Useful Information & Amusement
The lady's friend. Philadelphia : Deacon & Peterson, 1864‐1873.
Volumes available: v.6 (1869) ‐ v.7 (1870)
Ladies' home journal. Philadelphia: Curtis Publishing Co., 1889
Volumes available: v.8:no.3 (1891:Feb.); v.16:no.3 (1899:Feb.)
New York Milliner & Dressmaker
Peterson’s magazine. Philadelphia : C.J. Peterson, 1848-1892.
Volumes available: Vol. 13, no. 1 (Jan. 1848)-v. 102, no. 5 (Nov. 1892)
Public Online Access-HathiTrust
Public Online Access-HathiTrust
Vogue Archive 1892-present
The Vogue Archive is a available to users via computers located inside the ROM.
Limited Public Online Access-HathiTrust