Century Past, Free Online Library

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A great place to explore vintage books and magazines is Century Past, Free Online Library. Let’s look.
“Century Past Free Online Library has links to collections that, all told, contain hundreds of thousands of books, magazines, articles, maps, and images. The site is organized to help you find reading materials on your favorite topics.”  You can access the site here. While this site doesn’t focus on genealogy, there are simply some interesting magazines that will definitely help you understand what was “in” or talked about in a particular decade and area. I suspect that this site could become somewhere that you might lose track of time as you explore that many articles and options.
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Here are some examples of items that I found. It gives us a contemporary view of that time.
The Gentleman’s Magazine v.1- 1731
The Illustrated London News 1856-02-02: Vol 28 Iss 782
Google News Archive Search
Collected Articles - Historic Online Maps - Vintage Photographs

Sometimes we become better story tellers and family historians when we spend time learning about the world as it was when our ancestors were living. Happy exploring world and regional history!