Browne Popular Culture Library

Many of the periodicals listed here were part of a larger gift by the late Leo Rosencrans, a former Superintendent for the Redpath Chautauqua in the late 1920's. These periodicals serve as primary sources for the Lyceum and Chautauqua movements as well as expressing the cultural dynamics of education and leisure at the turn of the century, with middle and upper-middle class American views of World War I, politics, temperance, women's rights, and race relations. Additionally, they can be viewed as cultural artifacts with descriptive illustrations serving as visual evidence of major graphic arts, styles, dominant clothing trends, prevalent architectural motifs, and the overall physical environs of America at the time.

• American Annals of Education
• American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge
• American Monthly Magazine
• The Chautauquan (Jamestown, NY: M. Bailey [Publisher])
• The Chautauquan : a weekly newsmagazine . [Official publication of Chautauqua Institution, a system of popular education]
• The I.L.A. News
• The International Lyceum and Chautauqua Association Year Book
• The Lyceum Magazine
• The Lyceum News
• The Lyceumite
• The Lyceumite and Talent
• The Platform World
• Talent, a Magazine of Public Speaking

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