--- title: TIME Magazine: Read the First Issue From 1923 description: The first issue of TIME was dated Mar. 3, 1923. Here's how you can read the whole issue, complete with vintage ads and illustrations. canonical: https://time.com/4684747/first-issue-vault/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-03T13:00:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T03:33:32.024Z article:section: History og:title: TIME Magazine: Read the First Issue From 1923 og:description: The first issue of TIME was dated March 3, 1923 og:url: https://time.com/4684747/first-issue-vault/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde9a70679ce3751c/698780d10b72e3298a6ddd9c/1101230303_400.jpg?branch=production&width=828&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: First cover of TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: TIME Magazine: Read the First Issue From 1923 twitter:description: The first issue of TIME was dated March 3, 1923 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde9a70679ce3751c/698780d10b72e3298a6ddd9c/1101230303_400.jpg?branch=production&width=828&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # You Can See the Whole First Issue of TIME Online. Here's How by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Mar 3, 2017 1:00 PM UTC  The first cover of TIME, from Mar. 3, 1923 The first cover of TIME, from Mar. 3, 1923TIME by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Mar 3, 2017 1:00 PM UTC As of Friday, it has been 94 years since the date on the [very first issue of TIME](http://time.com/vault/issue/1923-03-03/page/1/). A lot has changed, for the magazine and the world alike. The issue was short and entirely black-and-white, the [League of Nations](http://time.com/vault/issue/1923-03-03/page/3/) hadn’t yet been replaced by the United Nations, the latest art news was [about](http://time.com/vault/issue/1923-03-03/page/15/) the future of cubism and a working [helicopter](http://time.com/vault/issue/1923-03-03/page/23/) had just been invented. In other ways, however, the more things change, the more they stay the same. In 1923, politicians in Washington [fretted](http://time.com/vault/issue/1923-03-03/page/7/) over the border with Mexico, educators [worried](http://time.com/vault/issue/1923-03-03/page/19/) about the behavior of teenage boys, questions of journalistic objectivity provoked [controversy](http://time.com/vault/issue/1923-03-03/page/25/) — and TIME magazine reported on all of it. TIME subscribers can always access that issue and the rest of TIME’s archives — complete with the original layouts, art and advertisements — in the TIME Vault, but on Friday and this weekend, to celebrate the magazine’s anniversary, that issue can be read in its entirety by non-subscribers as well. **_To read the full issue, click_** [**_here_**](http://time.com/vault/issue/1923-03-03/page/1/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4684747/first-issue-vault/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4684747/first-issue-vault/"},"headline":"You Can See the Whole First Issue of TIME Online. 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