Reader’s Digest, The Ring, Better Homes & Gardens, Harvard Business Review & The Magazine Antiques Join The Magazine Media Centennial Club
A Mr. Magazine™ Musing
Celebrating The Magazine Media Centennial Club… Mr. Magazine™ Identifies 54 Magazine Media Brands That Are Now 100 Years or Older.
How many media brands you know of are celebrating at least one hundred years of existence? Four magazines join the magazine media centennial club this year: Reader’s Digest (started Feb. 1922), The Ring and The Magazine Antiques that were also started in January of 1922, and Better Homes & Gardens which started as Fruit, Garden And Home in July 1922, and Harvard Business Review that celebrates its centennial in October of this year.
I have compiled a list of 54 magazine media brands that are at least 100 years old. Some are even 200 years plus. To be included in my list the magazine must still be published in print and is still available for the general public to subscribe to it or to buy it on the newsstands. All the magazines listed are United States of American based and published magazines.
Here is what I call the Magazine Media Centennial Club in alphabetical order:
Magazine Name Year It Was Founded
- American Cinematographer 1920
- American Legion 1919
- Architectural Digest 1920
- Barron’s 1921
- Bed Times 1917
- Better Homes & Gardens 1922
- Billboard 1894
- Bowlers Journal International 1913
- Cosmopolitan 1886
- Farm Journal 1877
- Forbes 1917
- Good Housekeeping 1885
- Harper’s 1850
- Harper’s Bazaar 1867
- Harvard Business Review 1922
- House Beautiful 1896
- National Defense 1920
- National Geographic 1888
- New Jersey League of Municipalities 1917
- Philadelphia magazine 1908
- Popular Mechanics 1902
- Popular Science 1872
- Progressive Farmer 1866
- Reader’s Digest 1922
- San Diego magazine 1886
- Scholastic 1920
- Scientific American 1845
- Signs of the Times 1874
- Scout Life (Boys Life) 1911
- Scouting 1913
- Success 1897
- Successful Farming 1902
- Sunset 1898
- The Atlantic 1857
- The Crisis 1910
- The Furrow 1895
- The Magazine Antiques 1922
- The Nation 1865
- The New Republic 1914
- The New York Times Magazine 1896
- The Old Farmer’s Almanac 1792
- The Progressive 1909
- The Ring 1922
- The Rotarian 1905
- The Saturday Evening Post 1821
- The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 1893
- The Watchtower 1879
- Town & Country 1846
- Vanity Fair 1913
- Variety 1905
- Vogue 1892
- Westways 1909
- Writer’s Digest 1920
- Yachting 1907
I welcome any additions, notes, or corrections regarding my attempt to document the Magazine Media Centennial Club. Feel free to email me at samir.husni@gmail.com Last update Jan. 20, 2022
Until next time, join me wishing Reader’s Digest, The Ring, The Magazine Antiques, Harvard Business Review, and Better Homes & Gardens a happy 100th birthday and Success magazine a happy 125th birthday. Onward and forward.Samir “Mr. Magazine™” Husni, Ph.D.samir.husni@gmail.com