Some of my earliest pleasures were waiting for the weekly or monthly arrival of magazines: The New Yorker, Harper�s, The Atlantic, National Geographic, The Saturday Evening Post. The period from about 1925 to the late 1960�s were the heyday for magazines�. Henry Luce founded TIME in _____ and Harold Ross edited the New Yorker during its formative years. Collier�s Magazine, Scribners, Redbook and others were also produced then. Earlier, the illustrated magazine was the best way to convey history. Harper�s Magazine published accounts, maps, and illustrations of the Civil War, and Frank Leslie�s Illustrated Weekly also provided visual accounts of The Civil War; the opening of the Transcontinental Railway; the Brooklyn Bridge, immigration through Ellis Island; the Colombia Exposition in Chicago; and many other events of the 19th and 20th centuries.Esquire, Playboy, Sports Illustrated and Field and Stream have provided entertainment for men for years; Vanity Fair and Vogue have entertained and informed women.
THE NEW YORKER For over eighty years, The New Yorker has exemplified excellence. It had class, intelligence, and style. Cartoons by Peter Arno, James Thurber Sol Steinberg and others, and fiction and non-fiction by some of the greastest literary luminaries characterized The New Yorker, particularly during the years of Harold Ross' and William Shawn's leadership.
Founded in 1857, The Atlantic Monthly has published works by Mark Twain, Julia Ward Howe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and many others. It was originally a New England literary magazine, but after several ownership changes moved to New York and ceased publishing monthly fiction.
Harper's Weekly began publishing in 1857. It became an important record of history, primarily the Civil War, and was instrumental in politics. It featured woodcuts by artists including Winslow Homer and the charactaturist Thomas Nast, who developed the Elephant and Donkey symbols for the Republic and Democratic parties, and the enduring image of Santa Claus. Harper's Weekly A Journal of Civilization 1862
COLLIER'S MAGAZINE: MUCKRAKING JOURNALISM When it ceased publication fifty years ago, in January 1957, Colliers Magazine had established a tradition of independent, muckraking journalism. From its early days when it took on the food processing industry with Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" through investigations of consumer safety and the patent drug fraud, Colliers was an important addition to the magazine business. At the very outset Collier's adopted a liberal editorial policy, but it was not until 1905 that it began to publish muckraking articles. By 1909 it had a circulation of half a million copies a week, and by 1912 it passed the million mark. People's attitudes concerning mental health: A study made in the city of Louisville for the city of Louisville and Collier's magazine
READERS DIGEST Readers Digest was founded in 1922 by DeWitt and Lila Wallace. It has maintained its reputation as a conservative, family oriented magazine. By 1935 it had reached a circulation of 1,000,000. Although Reader's Digest was founded in the U.S., its international editions have made it the best-selling monthly magazine in the world. The magazine's worldwide circulation including all editions has reached 21 million copies and over 100 million readers.
WOMEN'S (LADIES) HOME COMPANION; REDBOOK
Woman's Home Companion WHC was one of the American women's magazines that truly helped shape our lives in the past century. It began humbly 1874 as THE HOME in Cleveland, Ohio, and through a series of changes and mergers became the LADIES' HOME COMPANION in 1886. Changing title again to WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION in 1897, it grew and became one of the most popular of the women's magazines, and lasted into the third quarter of the twentieth century. At one point its claimed circulation was four million, and dozens of famous authors wrote fiction and fact articles for the magazine. The Ladies' Home Companion; May 15, 1894; Vol XXI, No. 10
PLAYBOY AND THE FLESH MAGS Hugh Hefner can be credited with starting the sexual revolution. "Playboy" is synonymous with Men's entertainment: The Playboy Book: Fifty Years Although Reader's Digest was founded in the U.S., its international editions have made it the best-selling monthly magazine in the world. The magazine's worldwide circulation including all editions has reached 21 million copies and over 100 million readers.
The Saturday Evening Post used to be a great magazine, when Norman Rockwell drew covers and famous people wrote for it. Now, its a far cry from its former self.
ESQUIRE: MAN AT HIS BEST Esquire is a magazine for men owned by the Hearst Corporation. Founded in 1933, it flourished during the Depression under the guidance of founder and editor Arnold Gingrich.
Although it began as a racy publication for men, Esquire changed focus with an emphasis on men's fashion and contributions by such literary giants as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
British illustrator and engraver Frank Leslie began the Illustrated Weekly bearing his name in 1855. The engravings in the magazine documented the Civil War.
Scribners began in 1870, and was intended to compete with Harper's and The Atlantic. It published some of Scribner's big name authors --Hemingway, Faulkner and Fitzgerald...but didn't last very long. At its peak its circulation topped 215,000, but by 1930 it had dropped to 70,000, and it ceased publication in May 1939. The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970
Time, Inc, was the creation of Henry Luce and a Yale classmate. In the 1930's,40's and into the sixties it was a powerful source of news and opinion, especially with regard to US foreign policy in China, where he was born to missionary parents. Life chronicled American life througout the twentieth century; Sports Illustrated is the country's premiere sports mag (although ESPN the Magazine is pretty good too)
Back in the fifties, when a haircut was a haircut, not a "styling" and cost 50 Cents,not fifty bucks, there used to be Men's Magazines in the shop. Field & Stream, Popular Mechanics, Readers Digest, adventure mags, etc)
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