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.