a pig in a suit sits in a wooden chair and reads papers at a desk; a pair of scissors is tucked behind one of the pig's ears. On the wall behind the pig are a sign & a picture, both in frames. The sign reads "The Little Pig Monthly is Out" (meaning that it's available to readers). The picture is of a well-dressed pig standing on two legs; words on the picture read "The Little Artist." On the floor beside the desk are an over-flowing waste basket, a roll of paper, and two books.

The first issue was entirely illustrated by Thomas Nast, who also gave us a rotund #SantaClaus.

printed in yellow, red, green, blue & black on beige paper. A large pig dressed in red eats with utensils at a table. Around the pig are small figures from folktales: among the figures, a bearded giant with a club talks to a boy; two frogs play leapfrog; a red dragon roars at a knight on a horse; a cat wears a red robe; a witch flies on a broom; figures from different lands hold hands and dance in a ring; a winged fairy holds a wand. A bird perches on the name "The Little-Pig Monthly."

Happy birthday on #magazineMonday to Elijah Sparhawk Brigham, born #otd in 1813, editor of Little Pig Monthly (2 issues, 1859) The colored cover is unusual. #bookhistory #19thcentury #childrensmagazines

printed on cream-colored paper. In the center: "The Child's Friend and Youth's Magazine. Terms--$1.50 per annum, in advance. Postage--half a cent each No." The words are framed by an elaborate border. Background of the wide border: vines, flowers, and the faces of children. Against the border are 8 vignettes. Top: a white woman sits in a chair with a baby on her lap, listening as a boy standing in front of her reads from a book; behind him two girls are seated. Left, top to bottom: two boys fly a kite; a girl jumps rope; three boys sail a toy boat in a pool of water. Right, top to bottom: a girl watches two girls play with a small hoop; two boys fish; two girls play badminton. Bottom: a boy and girl plant seeds. On either side of the bottom vignette are a globe, books, a kite, a top, a model sailboat, and a cricket bat. Below the bottom border: "Published by Leonard C. Bowles, 111, Washington-street, Boston."

Birthday wishes for Anne Wales Abbott, born #otd in 1808, editor of The Child's Friend (1843-1858)! #bookhistory #19thcentury #childrensmagazines #WomenInHistory #WomensHistory

Arthur definitely named his magazine after the poem, but I like this interpretation better…

printed on beige paper. The cover of the magazine for October 1870. A white woman sits in an armchair, with two young boys and a little girl looking at something on her lap. At her feet, a girl and a boy read a book together. They are in a room with a window seat beneath a window through which a tree is visible. On the floor is a toy drum with two drumsticks. The scene is framed by fines and flowers, with the words "The Children's Hour" above the figures. Below the figures are the words "A Magazine for the Little Ones. Edited by T. S. Arthur." It is printed by T. S. Arthur & Sons, 809 & 811 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. The illustration is signed by the engraver: Lauderbach. At the top of the page, the original owner's name is handwritten: Miss Clara Kiliam.

for #magazineMonday, The Children's Hour (1867-1874), edited by temperance favorite T. S. Arthur (author, Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There) #bookhistory #19thcentury #childrensmagazines

alt: cover of a small square paperback. Pictured is the profile of a green, scaly T-rex, mouth open to bite. Above it the title, "Dinosaurs" is printed on a blue background; beside the title is a beige oval with the profile of a stylized rooster's head above the phrase "Quiz-Me." printed price: 25 cents. Below the T-rex are the words "A Junior Golden Guide."

Happy International Children's Book Day! The first book I ever bought. (25 cents was a fortune to me in 1965.) And I still have it. (Image isn't of my copy, but mine is just as nice.) #paleoart #childrensbooks #dinosaurs #InternationalChildrensBookDay

alt: printed on yellow paper. A white man on a cricket pitch prepares to bat the ball. In the background two other men stand; behind them is a house. Printed above the illustration: Vol. III, 8 & 9. Parley's Magazine. Published every fortnight, at one dollar a year. Printed below the illustration: Postage, three quarters of a cent; but if over 100 miles, one cent and a quarter. Publishers in Maine, New York City, Pennsylvania, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, Buffalo, and New Orleans are listed; this copy was printed in Boston, by Samuel Colman.

For spring, the closest Parley's Magazine came to baseball. Unusually, in 1835, each issue apparently had a different image on the cover; here a #cricket player batters up. #19thcentury #childrensmagazines #bookhistory #MagazineMonday

Honoring Hannah Bunce (b. 28 Dec 1749), widowed at 28, with 4 children & a stepdaughter, who as Hannah Watson co-edited the Connecticut Courant [Hartford, Connecticut] 6 Jan 1778-23 Feb 1779. #WomenInHistory #WomensHistory #WHM #WomensHistoryMonth #womenswork

printed on orange paper; the cover of Robert Merry's Museum for November 1872 (the last issue). In the center are the words "Merry's Museum, an Illustrated Magazine for Boys & Girls" above a small reproduction of the painting "Youth," by Thomas Cole. On the left Columbia stands on a pedestal with a cross on it; she carries a spear, holds a small shield painted with stars and stripes and wears a helmet with an eagle as a crest. On the right Athena stands on a pedestal with a dove on it. Below are three vignettes: in the center, a sailboat sails toward the sun; on either side, each vignette shows a white boy and girl. Below the vignettes are the words "Horace B. Fuller, Boston."

printed on tan paper. In the center, the words "Parley's Magazine No. 7 Boston Lilly, Wait, and Company. Portland: Colman, Holden, and Co. 1833." Around the words is a border of 14 vignettes, each set in a circular frame. Upper left to upper right: a globe; a man looking at the sky through a telescope; a church; two people pointing at a distant ruin. Right-hand side, below the people pointing at a ruin: travelers entering a stagecoach; a farmer steering a plow drawn by oxen, with a large building behind him; an owl, an eagle, a crow, and an ostrich. Left-hand side, below the globe: a sailing ship; a statue near some ancient ruins; an elephant, a tiger, and a lion. Bottom left to bottom right: a whale spouting; a truly enormous butterfly near a tree; a running horse with a man strapped to its back; several flowers growing in a landscape.

2/2: The cover of the last issue of Robert Merry's Museum contrasts with the one for Parley's Magazine: Parley's corrals the subjects, packaging them neatly for the reader. By 1872, images on children's magazines more often corral the readers, sealing them away from the outside world.

alt: a portrait of Susanna Newbould, a white woman wrapped in a printed shawl and looking at you. Below her portrait is her autograph; above her is written "Woodworth's" in capital letters; below her signature are the words "Youth's Cabinet" in capital letters.

1/2: Happy birthday to Susanna Wilson Newbould, born #otd in 1821. As "Aunt Sue," she delighted in puzzles and the readers of Woodworth's Youth's Cabinet and Robert Merry's Museum. #19thcentury #childrensmagazines #bookhistory #WomensHistory #WHM #WomensHistoryMonth

printed on tan paper. In the center, the words "Parley's Magazine No. 7 Boston Lilly, Wait, and Company. Portland: Colman, Holden, and Co. 1833." Around the words is a border of 14 vignettes, each set in a circular frame. Upper left to upper right: a globe; a man looking at the sky through a telescope; a church; two people pointing at a distant ruin. Right-hand side, below the people pointing at a ruin: travelers entering a stagecoach; a farmer steering a plow drawn by oxen, with a large building behind him; an owl, an eagle, a crow, and an ostrich. Left-hand side, below the globe: a sailing ship; a statue near some ancient ruins; an elephant, a tiger, and a lion. Bottom left to bottom right: a whale spouting; a truly enormous butterfly near a tree; a running horse with a man strapped to its back; several flowers growing in a landscape

Birthday cheers to Parley’s Magazine, launched #otd in 1833! The first cover promised pieces on a variety of subjects; for 11 years, the magazine fulfilled that promise. #19thcentury #childrensmagazines #bookhistory #MagazineMonday

Very cool! Makes sense, I think, given that so many illustrations were reused in books and periodicals for decades. I know that engravers would find a painting they liked and engraved it, then sold it to a publisher; happened with giftbooks.

printed on orange paper. Athena, a female figure wearing a helmet and carrying a sword and a shield with stars and stripes, stands in the center, beneath an arch with "Our Young Folks" written on it; an eagle spreads its wings at the top of the arch, with three flags showing stars hung on either side. On each side of Athena are two vignettes in round frames. Left, the vignettes show a white boy and girl ride a sled down a snowy slope and another white girl and boy holding hands while skating. Right, the vignettes show five white boys throwing snowballs around a large ball of snow and a white boy skating and pulling two white girls on a small sled.

Happy birthday Lucy Larcom, born #otd in 1824, one of the editors of Our Young Folks (1865-1873), which in early years had a different cover for each season; this one would have been for March #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #19thcentury #childrensmagazines #bookhistory

The words "The Bright Side" over a 3-part image. Middle, the bust of a young white girl looking at you from a round frame. Left, ivy wreathes around the words "For Wisdom is Better than Rubies." Right, ivy wreathes around the words "A Merry Heart doth Good like a Medicine." Below are the words "For all eyes, and all kinds of weather."

Birthday wishes for John B. Alden, born #otd in 1847, editor of The Bright Side (1869-abt 1873) #19thcentury #childrensmagazine

4/4 Was it Lyon? Unknown. But certainly this person managed to live life as she understood herself, clear to the end.

3/4 Who was she? Death records I’ve been able to consult include a tailor dying in Fredericksburg, Virginia, on 4 March 1853: James Lyon, age 72, born in Falmouth; I haven’t found him listed in any state in the 1850 census.

2/4 "We understand that this person recently died in one of the upper counties, when the discovery was made that the cutter of ladies’ garments was a man in disguise—one who had donned the petticoats for some unexplained reason, and passed for a female until after death."

1/4 Honoring a transwoman who died in 1853; from the Alexandria Gazette [Alexandria, Virginia] 24 May 1853: "Last summer a (reputed) female was going the rounds, instructing ladies in the art of cutting dresses, &c., hailing from the North, we believe." #LGBTQ+

alt: An elderly white man stands in front of a distant row of houses. He wears a hat, a long coat over a waistcoat, and knee-length breeches over long stockings. He has one hand in a pocket of his coat and leans on a cane held in the other. He is smiling.

alt: Chapter 1 of Tales of Peter Parley About America; paragraphs are numbered: "Parley tells about Himself, about Boston, and about the Indians. 1. Here I am! My name is Peter Parley! I am an old man. I am very gray and lame. But I have seen a great many things, and had a great many adventures, and love to talk about them. 2. I love to tell stories to children, and very often they come to my house, and they get around me, and I tell them stories of what I have seen, and of what I have heard."

Happy birthday #PeterParley, early brand name making his debut #otd in 1827, in Tales of Peter Parley About America, by #SamuelGriswoldGoodrich; it was the first of almost a dozen books with Parley's name in the title. #bookhistory

Cover for The Dayspring for January and February 1850. Profile picture of a boy sitting on the ground, reading a book.

Birthday wishes to Selah Burr Treat, born #OTD in 1804; editor of The Youth's Dayspring (1842-1855) #bookhistory #19thcentury #childrensmagazines

Wearing his reading glasses, Abraham Lincoln sits leafing through a book; his young son stands beside him, also looking at the book. Caption: "The Children's Portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Published as a Supplement to The Little Corporal."

a president worth honoring; a mezzotint of an 1864 photo by Matthew Brady; for subscribers to The Little Corporal, 1865 #bookhistory #AbrahamLincoln #lincoln #presidentsday #childrensmagazines #littlecorporal #19thcentury

front: beige paper cut in the shape of a glove with a scalloped wrist. Blue paper cut in the shape of a heart with scalloped edges has been cut so it can be woven into the beige paper. At the wrist of the glove two thin red strips of paper are woven through the beige; between them a thin blue strip of paper has been woven.

back: the blue paper from the heart shows through. At the wrist is a thin blue strip woven through the beige glove; thin beige strips of paper are woven through the wrist on either side of the blue strip.

for a valentine: found in a 19th-century book (probably a bound volume of a children's magazine), a nice little heart in a hand

&, looking at your website, you list a couple children's papers I didn't know about. (I specialize in American periodicals & books for children before 1873.) Though since they weren't mentioned in newspapers & libraries don't appear to have them, no wonder I didn't find them!

A boy holding a sickle & a sheaf of wheat looks at the reader in the center of a banner for The Young Reaper. On the left, a woman sits with a book in front of a classroom of children. On the right, a minister & a young female convert stand waist-deep in a body of water, with a crowd of people on the shore; she's evidently being baptizes.

The American Baptist Publication Society may have provided a stereotype plate to the Welsh publishers. Here's a scan of the banner from 1866.

The Reaper was a Baptist periodical, which is what I assume the Welsh paper was. That image of the boy in the banner was used in the American paper from 1865 to 1868; a different image was used 1869 to 1871.

The image for the cover has three sections. Left: a teenaged boy strikes a dramagic pose; below him, a caption reads, "The world is all before me." Right: a teenaged girl presses a book to her heart; below her, a caption reads, "My jewels are faith & virtue." Center: a family listens as an elderly man reads aloud; below them, a caption reads, "How grand in age, how fair in youth, is holy friendship, love & truth."

#OTD 1813, Benson John Lossing was born, engraver turned editor of The Young People’s Mirror and American Family Visitor (Jan 1848-Dec 1848) #bookhistory #19thcentury #childrensmagazines

A boy shows a book to a dog which is sitting on its hind legs, front paws close to its chest. The image is on the cover of The Juvenile Miscellany, a children's magazine from January 1828.

The magazine used the same cover image for each issue in the year; the images were standard woodcuts which appear in a number of publications. This one from 1828 is a favorite. #dog

A boy sits on a chair, listening as a girl reads from a book. They appear on the cover of The Juvenile Miscellany, a children's magazine from 1827.

Birthday wishes to Lydia Maria Child, abolitionist and editor of The Juvenile Miscellany, 1826-1836 #bookhistory #lydiamariachild #juvenilemiscellany #19thcentury #childrensmagazines

a small white girl dressed in a long, ruffled dress over ruffled pantaloons shows you an open book. Behind her, an open door leads to a staircase; beside her a basket sits on a covered table, with a footstool in front; a picture hangs on the wall behind her. Caption: "I wish you a happy New Year,/ Plenty of books, and very good cheer."

a New Year wish from Parley's Magazine, 1838 #bookhistory #NewYear

Thanks for the info!