# Need a link....

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 6, 2003, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-link/173401 "2003-05-06T14:53:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![KnK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/edb3f5/32.png) [@KnK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KnK)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-link/173401/1 "2003-05-06T14:53:09Z")

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Oh ye mighty resourceful people:

I am looking for a front cover scan of a 1973 publication of Parent’s Magazine. I am not sure of the month, but believe it to be around January - April of that year. The cover features two children; one kneeling on the floor and the other laying back to back on the first child.

Anyone have an idea how to locate a back issue so old? So far, I have only been able to go back a couple of years.

Most of the online libraries require a username and barcode to get microfiche info. I dont have that ☹

Please help if you can!! Thanks!

KnK

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**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-link/173401/2 "2003-05-06T16:19:41Z")

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Unless someone up and comes out with a link, I’d suggest hitting your own library: ours has loads of back issues of all kinds of magazines, and on top of that, public libraries often have subscriptions to many of those online libraries.

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**Author:** ![brianmelendez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/65b543/32.png) [@brianmelendez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianmelendez)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-link/173401/3 "2003-05-06T17:56:27Z")

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> \*Originally posted by KnK \*  
> **Anyone have an idea how to locate a back issue so old? So far, I have only been able to go back a couple of years.**

You can find back issues from a bizarrely diverse range of publications on eBay. You can limit your search to the “Magazines & Catalogs” category so that you don’t pull up thousands of items: I just searched in that category for “Parent\*” and pulled up 42 items, including back issues of _Parents’_ from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. By the way, there is a _Parents’_ magazine and a _Parenting_ magazine, but no _Parent’s_ magazine–although one eBay listing also misspelled the title, so I suggest searching using a wildcard character. I did not see the issue that you are looking for but, if you keep looking, it may eventually turn up.

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**Author:** ![KnK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/edb3f5/32.png) [@KnK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KnK)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2003, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-link/173401/4 "2003-05-06T18:34:10Z")

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Good info Brian, Thanks!

KnK