RE: [Leica] Leica Photography (US version)

[erminia quinn <erminiaq@yahoo.com>]

Dear Jem  - 
As a former library tech, I couldn't resist looking on
the Library of Congress Online Catalog (
http://catalog.loc.gov ) to see if they could answer
your question.  Here's what I found:

LC Control Number:	46033156 
Type of Material:	Serial (Periodical, Newspaper, etc.)
Main Title:	Leica photography.
Published/Created:	[New York, etc., E. Leitz]
Related Names:	Wolfman, Augustus, ed.
Description:	8 v. ill. (part col.) diagrs. 29 cm.
Issues for 1932-36 (no. 1-49) without volume numbering
but form v. 1-5.
v. 1-8, no. 9, Dec. 1932-Sept. 1939.
ISSN:	0024-063X
Notes:	Editors: <1936>-1939 A. Wolfman.
SERBIB/SERLOC merged record
Superseded in 1948 by a publication with the same
title.
Subjects:	Photography--Periodicals.
LC Classification:	TR1 .L42
Other System No.:	(OCoLC)ocm04865419 
Serial Record Entry:	Leica photography. 46-33156
Quality Code:	lc


[and]

LC Control Number:	60002868 
Type of Material:	Serial (Periodical, Newspaper, etc.)
Main Title:	Leica photography.
Published/Created:	[New York, E. Leitz]
Description:	v. ill. (part col.) diagrs. 28 cm.
Vols. 1-3 called also no. 1-12.
v. 1-29, no. 1; spring 1948-1977.
Current Frequency:	Irregular <, 1976->
Former Frequency:	Quarterly, 1948-
Notes:	SERBIB/SERLOC merged record
Supersedes an earlier publication with the same title,
issued 1932-39.
Subjects:	Photography--Periodicals.
LC Classification:	TR1 .L422
Dewey Class No.:	770.5
Other System No.:	(OCoLC)ocm06123004 
Serial Record Entry:	Leica photography (New York)(E.
Leitz, inc.) 60-2868
Quality Code:	lc




- --- Jem Kime <jem.kime@cwcom.net> wrote:
> Dennis,
> Thanks for this.
> To clarify, I'm writing about the German magazine,
> 'Leica Fotografie' which 
> is celebrating their 50th anniversary this year. As
> an aside note, I 
> thought it would be worth mentioning the other
> ('sister') magazine with a 
> similar name, i.e. 'Leica Photography' which as you
> know was made in the 
> USA.
> 
> So from your dating of Vol VL (I'd presume that's
> actually 'VI', (Vol 6) 
> rather than 'VL' (which would be Vol 45) I'd assume
> that it started in 
> 1932. But from what I know of post war publications,
> there were only 4 a 
> year so the 'No. V' and 'No. IX' references are
> slightly confusing.
> It looks like there would have been 12 issues a year
> prior to WWII, would 
> you agree?
> 
> regards,
> Jem


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