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I just finished the November 1914 issue of the National Geographic.  The issue contains but one article entitled "Young Russia - The Land of Unlimited Possibilities" written by Gilbert H Grosvenor.  It is 98 pages long (Pages 493-520) but with 100 illustrations, there are a great many photos and fairly little article.

Among the illustrations are "16 Pages of 4-Color Works".  All of these "colorized" pages are of the same stock and cut as the rest of the magazine; and they are page numbered.  The illustration in question is the last of these 16 pages (Page 502).  It is entitled "A Dutch Fisherman and his Family".  Obviously this is another example of a "filler" photo.

One other thing of note about this issue is that, at the end of the article, on the bottom of page 520 is a notice of the passing of Henry Gannett, President of the Society on November 5, 1914.  Apparently back in the day they did not print and mail issues a month in advance.  (I already have my November 2014 issue.)

Tom Wilson

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I was just reading this issue, and I find a typed error (shocker!):  on page 445 it says, "At the age of 53 Peter sacrificed his life to save a peasant woman and her child from drowning (see page 485)."

Yet, it is actually page 484 that illustrates "this statue in Petrograd commemorates the act of heroism which resulted in the death of Peter the Great".

Wow Scott...

You dug deep to find this discussion.  It's from a couple of months before I started my "100 Years Ago' series.  Love these old mags.    :-)

I have a particular fondness for the 1910-1919 range . . . . I wish you had started your "100 Years Ago..." to cover 1910-1914, too !

I was reading them as far back as 2012 (1912) but didn't think to review them until 2015.  I was commenting on them though, as this discussion demonstrates.

Tom,

How about a "monthly" filler going backwards until you've reviewed all National Geographic Magazines older than 100 years ago?

Just thinking out loud here... :)

Mel

Mel,

I really wish I had the time, but I'm barely able to keep up with writing about the 100-year issue and commenting about the current one.  When I floated the idea of writing those articles, I mentioned that I liked to read and compare both the old and the new issues, kind of like a barometer, to see how far we've advanced (or fallen).

Besides, the early reviews I wrote were merely a paragraph or two on each article with very little detail.  I have gotten very verbose over the years,  Plus, it wasn't until later that Phil started adding photos to the reviews, starting with the "Rumanian Water Witch".   I only started adding my own photos on his passing, although I did try to include any sketch maps from each issues.

Tom

Understand...

Scott - time to become Tom's understudy...

Mel

When I created the Groups for the various categories of Society books back in 2014, it had been my desire (intention) to start posting profiles of the titles here and there, w/ photos and written description . . . 

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