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Newsweek Magazine PDF
The first issue of Newsweek Magazine was published in February 1933, and it became one of the most popular weekly news magazines in the U.S. for much of the 20th century. It was owned by the Washington Post newspaper from 1961 to 2010.
The top row of links at each year (below) lead to color images of print versions of the U.S. edition of Newsweek Magazine. They are in 2-month and 3-month groups because they were bound that way by the donor library. Several of these groups of issues could not be found online. The resolution of these color scans is good, but the edges of pages were cut off during scanning, making some of the stories hard to read.
Links with “B&W“. These are pdf scans of black and white microfilm versions of Newsweek. The resolution is lower than the color scans. Text is readable, but images are poor. The B&W links on this page come from the 1933-1961 U.S. edition.
Newsweek Subject indexes are here for each 6-month volume. You’ll normally find them at the beginning of a 2-month or 3-month binder in the color versions. There is also an index at each B&W volume link.
Newsweek Archives 1930s PDF
1933 (Vols 1-2) – Feb 17-Dec (B&W)
Index Vol 1 – (Feb 17-Jul) – Index Vol 2 – (Aug-Dec)
Note: Vol 2 consists of issues from Aug-Dec, but the metadata mislabels them as Vol 1.