Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1: An Illustrated Magazine

"Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1 by Various" is a children's magazine published in January 1865. This illustrated monthly periodical featured stories, poems, articles, and serialized fiction for readers aged ten to eighteen. Contributors included celebrated authors like Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. With its distinctive orange cover depicting the goddess Minerva, the magazine promised entertainment and moral instruction, encouraging young readers to embrace charity while portraying poverty as physically challenging yet spiritually enriching. (This is an automatically generated summary.)