The American Girl Magazine Scan Project
I'm finally biting the bullet & working to scan every single American Girl Magazine issue that I currently have in my collection! I don't have every single issue, but I still have a solid chunk of the 2000s issues and that's not nothing.
I'm approaching this scanning project by scanning and cleaning in batches of months rather then by year. So instead of scanning all of my 2003 issues in one go, I'll be scanning every September/October issue I have. I plan to clean and upload all the scans in the batch before I move on to the next batch.
You can find a list of all the American Girl Magazines I have in my possession on this page.
Current Progress
Recently Purchased Issues/Provided Scans that I still need to upload:
July/August 2004 (Cleaner scans with many (but not all) missing pages restored) Uploaded!
March/April 2014
November/December 2014
Inserts for Jan/Feb & March/April 2015
May/June 2015
March/April 2016
May/June 2016
July/August 2016
January/February 2019
Upload Magazine scans onto the AG Magazine Side Blog - Currently up to 2011
Where to find these Scans
The Internet Archive
Read the magazine in-browser!
Leave a comment!
Download JPGs or the PDF!
I would like to one day share the original files, including my original rough scans so people can make their own edits/adjustments to the original scans. However, the sheer scale of the project & the file sizes are much more data then google drive offers by default. If I'm able to find a suitable solution or workaround, I'll note it here.
American Girl Magazine Scans
JPGs of every issue I have scans of!
Tags so you can look up artists, writers, and themes across multiple issues!
Reblog and share around on Tumblr!
I set up a side blog that will be devoted entirely to sharing scans from American Girl Magazine! Think of it as a backup to the Internet Archive upload: I can't upload PDFs onto Tumblr, but I can share JPGs of the scans. I can even tag them, so people looking for a specific subject or artist can do so more easily! I only started this side blog recently, so I am still getting caught up to what I have uploaded on the Internet Archive.
Help Needed
A lot of these issues were the same ones I used in my childhood, and as a result a lot of bonus materials are missing, such as the mini mags, posters or any stickers or posters. In some extreme cases, I'm even missing the magazine cover.
I've tried to make note of the pieces I'm missing both in the file names, the file description on the archive page, and on the list of AG Magazines currently in my possession. It's highly possible I might not notice pieces are missing until I'm scanning.
If you happen to have the missing materials/pages and you are gracious enough to scan it on my behalf, I will be in your debt. The missing material will be added to the uploads, and credit will be given to you as desired. You can find details on how to submit missing scans to me through this SUBMISSION POST!
If you do not have these issues, you can also help me buy issues by donating money to my Ko-Fi.
I hope you enjoy these scans!
