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Harpweek <http://www.harpweek.com>. Created and published by John Adler. Reviewed Oct. 10–Dec. 14, 2002.
Harpweek is an archival site that includes every issue of the famous weekly published by Harper's between 1857 (when it originated) and 1912, as well as useful essays that provide historical and biographical context. The site is still under construction, but much of the archive is complete. All issues up to 1901 are now included. By September 2003, all issues will be completed and the archive will extend from 1857 to 1912. The site is gated, but there is currently a substantial amount of free material available; that can be quite useful for getting the flavor of this archive for those who might be interested in purchasing access to the entire collection. 1
     The archive's publisher is John Adler, who founded an advertising research business and acquired a complete set of Harper's Weekly (1857 to 1916). During retirement he began to have the journal manually indexed. As he states in his "publisher's letter," the purpose of indexing Harper's Weekly is to provide the reader a friendly way to access all of this important material. Readers not familiar with nineteenth-century language and history would certainly gain from having an index that is easy to navigate, that translates nineteenth-century language into twentieth-century categories, and that organizes a wealth of material in ways that are easy to understand and access. . . .
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