The National Geographic Magazine

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Title

The National Geographic Magazine

Coverage

Washington, D.C.

Publisher

National Geographic Society

Date

March 1888

Subject

Volume 1, number 1

Description

The most influential geographic magazine ever published, it has entertained and educated its readers for generations. This issue had a circulation of about 700, mostly distributed among the 208 original Society members. It evolved into a highly circulated national publication in the first decade of the twentieth century.