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Crowell-Collier Publishing Company records

Title: Crowell-Collier Publishing Company records, 1931-1955.
Author: Crowell-Collier Publishing Company
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Box 1	Archival mix	Request in advance	MssCol 703	Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Box 2	Archival mix	Request in advance	MssCol 703	Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328
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Description

909 linear feet (807 boxes).

Summary

Collection consists of correspondence, readers' reports, typescripts, proofs, memoranda, and photographs relating to the publishing activities of Crowell-Collier. Records are mainly correspondence, 1931-1950, of the editors of the magazines published by the firm, with the bulk concerning Collier's and Woman's Home Companion. Editors' correspondence with authors, literary agents, photographers, and cartoonists reflects the changes in editorial policy and shifts in popular taste during the period between the early thirties and the mid-fifties. Collection also includes inter-office correspondence, 1933, 1946; readers' reports, 1933; edited authors' typescripts and editors' proofs of articles, short stories, and serialized novels published in Collier's from 1935 through 1955, with some correspondence and editorial memoranda; and a few photographs.

Uniform Title

American magazine.
Collier's.
Woman's home companion.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Photographs.

Access (note)

Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.

Additional Formats (note)

available on microfilm;

Source (note)

Crowell-Collier Publishing Co.

Biography (note)

The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, American publishers of popular periodicals and educational and technical manuals, was incorporated in 1920 as the Crowell Publishing Company. The name was changed to Crowell-Collier in 1939, and to Crowell, Collier and Macmillan, Inc. in 1965. The firm published American Magazine, Collier's Magazine, The Country Home, Woman's Home Companion, and National Weekly.

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Call Number

MssCol 703

OCLC

122431486
NYPW92-A269

Author

Crowell-Collier Publishing Company.

Title

Crowell-Collier Publishing Company records, 1931-1955.

Additional Formats

Martha Gellhorn materials available on microfilm; New York Public Library; *ZL-186

Restricted Access

Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.

Biography

The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, American publishers of popular periodicals and educational and technical manuals, was incorporated in 1920 as the Crowell Publishing Company. The name was changed to Crowell-Collier in 1939, and to Crowell, Collier and Macmillan, Inc. in 1965. The firm published American Magazine, Collier's Magazine, The Country Home, Woman's Home Companion, and National Weekly.

Finding Aids

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Occupation

Editors.

Added Author

Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984.

Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981.

Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941.

Blossom, Sumner.

Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012.

Brittain, Vera, 1893-1970.

Broun, Heywood, 1888-1939.

Budenz, Louis F. (Louis Francis), 1891-1972.

Chase, Stuart, 1888-1985.

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976.

Denson, John.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.

Gellhorn, Martha, 1908-1998.

Haley, Alex.

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.

Higgins, Marguerite.

Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984.

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964.

Hurst, Fannie, 1889-1968.

Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963.

Koestler, Arthur, 1905-1983.

Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969.

Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974.

McNulty, Faith.

Maurois, André, 1885-1967.

Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956.

Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971.

Paton, Alan.

Reuther, Walter, 1907-1970.

Reynolds, Quentin James, 1902-1965.

Ryan, Cornelius.

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007.

Sherwood, Robert E. (Robert Emmet), 1896-1955.

Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968.

Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946.

Tonetti, Bianca.

Vonnegut, Kurt.

Wylie, Philip, 1902-1971.

Crowell Publishing Company.

Added Title

American magazine.

Collier's.

Woman's home companion.

Research Call Number

MssCol 703

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