Little Corporal Magazine, November, 1868, Vol. 7, No. 5; January, 1869, Vol. 8; No. 1; July, 1869, Vol. 9; No. 1; January, 1870, Vol. 10; No. 1; Appleton's Journal; Saturday, January 1, 1870, Vol. III, No. 40

66-96; 96; 96; 96; 28 pp. Five periodicals bound in half-leather with marbled boards: Little Corporal Magazine, November, 1868, Vol. 7, No. 5; January, 1869, Vol. 8; No. 1; July, 1869, Vol. 9; No. 1; January, 1870, Vol. 10; No. 1; Appleton's Journal; Saturday, January 1, 1870, Vol. III, No. 40. The Little Corporal was a monthly children's magazine published in Chicago Illinois from 1865 to 1875 and became the first children's periodical in the United States to gain a nation-wide readership. The magazine had a strong emphasis on patriotism and had the motto of "Fighting against Wrong, and for the Good and the True and the Beautiful." It published works by popular writers of the day, including Harriet Mann Miller (writing as Olive Thorne), Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (writing as Susan Coolidge), Josephine Pollard and Harry Castlemon. The periodical merged with St. Nicholas Magazine in 1875. Appletons' Journal was an American magazine of literature, science, and arts. Published by D. Appleton & Company and debuting on April 3, 1869, its first editor was Edward L. Youmans, followed by Robert Carter, Oliver Bell Bunce, and Charles Henry Jones. It was published weekly until June 26, 1876, then monthly from July 1876 until its final issue December 1881.