Boys’ Life Archives
Scout Life magazine has partnered with Google Books to archive more than 100 years of Boys’ Life magazine. You can view nearly every issue from March 1911 to December 2012 at the following links:
- 1911-1919 issues
- 1920-1929 issues
- 1930-1939 issues
- 1940-1949 issues
- 1950-1959 issues
- 1960-1969 issues
- 1970-1979 issues
- 1980-1989 issues
- 1990-1999 issues
- 2000-2009 issues
- 2010-2012 issues
Once you find the issue you’d like to read, just click on the “Preview this magazine” link. You can also search within a particular issue or across all issues.
What About Issues Since 2012?
Many articles published since 2012 are available here on the Scout Life website. You can also find recent issues of the magazine on the Scout Life app.
I do not remember Norman Rockwell dsigning any covers for Boy”s Life. He did many covers for LIFE Magazine
Why aren’t any of the covers that Norman Rockwell designed in his museum?
Nope.
Rockwell did illustrations for Saturday Evening Post
Life covers were photography.
Maybe it is my imagination, but I thought Boy’s Life had an article about the JFK 50 mile event in Maryland some time back in the ’60’s. Anyone know if there was such an article? Wanted to hike it as a Scout and next month will finally get my chance!
I am trying to locate an issue of Boy’s Life with a lead story titled ‘Everything you need to know about Life’. I believe it was issued in 2014, but could be a little older than that. Is anyone familiar with it? Is it on-line?
looking for 1053 sept issue with Elmer the Worm–can anyone help me
How do I get to the 2010 section of the BL magazines?
I am looking for the Dec 1983 Boys Life magazine. Can anyone help me out?
they have it. the only thing is it is just blank
i have 1960’s
Dude! Find it up top! Click on the 1980 decade finder or search December 1983 on the search thing.
Is it possible to get a copy of the June, 1997 issue of Boy’s Life?
I was a boy scout back in the 60’s and am looking for a story called “Flight of the Valkyrie”
These archives of Boy’s Life magazine are really great in understanding United States History. The dirigible known as “the Hindenburg” was a “passenger airship” or “blimp” which traveled across the Atlantic Ocean from Frankfurt, Germany and was bound to land at Lakehurst, New Jersey. In May, 1937, the hydrogen filled dirigible was attempting to land at Lakehurst, New Jersey when the hydrogen filled dirigible had an accident and exploded into flames in its attempting to land at Lakehurst, New Jersey.