ISSN40YEARS - Historical Covers
The pictures show a cross-section of Italian history of the last century as represented by Italian publishing of periodicals. We find newspaper magazines: fashion, entertainment, science, art, evoking traditions, events, discoveries in various fields: medicine, science technology and describe the change in Italian society. The images below represent a small selection – captured by approximately 50,000 titles processed by Italian Centre – the most representative art, we have divided into several groups that will be subsequently published. The first group is represented by entertainment magazines. Under every cover bears the date of assignment of the ISSN code that does not always coincide with the date of publication. In fact the codes ISSN identify all issues of a serial including the previous and are assigned also to serials ceased.