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founded in 1888 by Peter Fenelon Collier. It was launched as ''Collier's Once a Week'', then renamed in 1895 as ''Collier's Weekly: An Illustrated Journal'', shortened in 1905 to ''Collier's: The National Weekly'' and eventually to simply ''Collier's''. The magazine ceased publication with the issue dated the week ending January 4, 1957, although a brief, failed attempt was made to revive the Collier's name with a new magazine in 2012. As a result of Peter Collier's pioneering investigative journalism, ''Collier's'' established a reputation as a proponent of social reform. After lawsuits by several companies against ''Collier's'' ended in failure, other magazines joined in what Theodore Roosevelt described as " muckraking journalism." Sponsored by Nathan S. Collier, a descendant of Peter Collier, the Collier Prize for State Government Accountability was created in 2019. The annual US$25,000 prize is one of the largest American journalism prizes, and it was established to honor Peter Collier’s legacy and contributions in the field of investigative reporting.


History


19th century

Peter F. Collier Peter Fenelon Collier (December 12, 1849 – April 23, 1909) was an Irish-American publisher, the founder of the publishing company ''P. F. Collier & Son'', and in 1888 founded ''Collier's Weekly''. Biography He was born in Myshall, County Carl ...
(1849–1909) left Ireland for the U.S. at age 17. Although he went to a seminary to become a priest, he instead started work as a salesman for P. J. Kenedy, publisher of books for the Roman Catholic market. When Collier wanted to boost sales by offering books on a subscription plan, it led to a disagreement with Kenedy, so Collier left to start his own subscription service. P. F. Collier & Son began in 1875, expanding into the largest subscription house in America with sales of 30 million books during the 1900–1910 decade."Collier's Rise and Fall"
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With the issue dated April 28, 1888, ''Collier's Once a Week'' was launched as a magazine of "fiction, fact, sensation, wit, humor, news". It was sold with the biweekly Collier's Library of novels and popular books at bargain rates and as a stand-alone priced at seven cents. By 1892, with a circulation climbing past the 250,000 mark, ''Collier's Once a Week'' was one of the best selling magazines in the United States. The name was changed to ''Collier's Weekly: An Illustrated Journal'' in 1895 or the longer title ''Collier's Weekly: An Illustrated Journal of Art, Literature & Current Events''. With an emphasis on news, the magazine became a leading exponent of the
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news picture. To fully exploit the new technology, Collier recruited James H. Hare, one of the pioneers of photojournalism. Collier's only son,
Robert J. Collier Robert Joseph Collier (June 17, 1876 – November 8, 1918) was the son of Peter Fenelon Collier and a principal in the publishing company P. F. Collier & Son. Upon his father's death, he became head of the company and, for a time, was editor of ...
, became a full partner in 1898.


20th century

By 1904, the magazine was known as ''Collier's: The National Weekly''. Peter Collier died in 1909. When Robert Collier died in 1918, he left a will that turned the magazine over to three of his friends, Samuel Dunn, Harry Payne Whitney and Francis Patrick Garvan. Robert J. Collier won a lawsuit against
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and was awarded $50,000 in damages, but in 1912 an appeals court then handed down a majority decision that Postum deserved a new trial. The Postum Company believed that Collier's weekly used magazine coverage to attack their company's products in retaliation for not advertising in Collier's after Collier's wrote against a Grape-Nuts's claim that it was an "A Food for Brain and Nerves." Postum then bought advertising pages in major newspapers in retaliation. The magazine was sold in 1919 to the Crowell Publishing Company, which in 1939 was renamed as Crowell-Collier Publishing Company. In 1924, Crowell moved the printing operations from New York City to
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, but kept the editorial and business departments in New York City. Reasons given for moving print operations included conditions imposed by unions in the printing trade, expansion of the Gansevoort Market into the property occupied by the Collier plant, and "excessive postage involved in mailing from a seaboard city under wartime postal rates. After 1924, printing of the magazine was done at the Crowell-Collier printing plant on West High Street in
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. The factory complex, much of which is no longer standing (finally razed in 2020), was built between 1899 and 1946, and incorporated seven buildings that together had more than ——of floor space.


Fiction

''Collier's'' popularized the short-short story which was often planned to fit on a single page. Knox Burger was ''Collier's'' fiction editor from 1948 to 1951 when he left to edit books for Dell and Fawcett Publications; he was replaced by Eleanor Stierhem Rawson. The numerous authors who contributed fiction to ''Collier's'' included F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ray Bradbury, Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd, Willa Cather,
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, Jack Finney, Erle Stanley Gardner, Zane Grey, Ring Lardner, Sinclair Lewis,
E. Phillips Oppenheim Edward Phillips Oppenheim (22 October 1866 – 3 February 1946) was an English novelist, a prolific writer of best-selling genre fiction, featuring glamorous characters, international intrigue and fast action. Notably easy to read, they were vie ...
, J. D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut, Louis L'Amour, Albert Payson Terhune and Walter Tevis. Humor writers included Parke Cummings and
H. Allen Smith Harry Allen Wolfgang Smith (December 19, 1907—February 24, 1976) was an American journalist, humorist, and writer whose books were popular in the 1940s and 1950s. Family and early career Smith was born in McLeansboro, Illinois, where he liv ...
. Serializing novels during the late 1920s, ''Collier's'' sometimes simultaneously ran two ten-part novels, and non-fiction was also serialized. Between 1913 and 1949, Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu serials, illustrated by
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and others, were hugely popular. The first three Fu Manchu novels by Rohmer were actually compilations of 29 short stories that Rohmer wrote for ''Collier’s''. ''The Mask of Fu Manchu'', which was adapted into a 1932 film and a 1951 Wally Wood comic book, was first published as a 12-part ''Collier's'' serial, running from May 7 to July 23, 1932. The May 7 issue displayed a memorable cover illustration by famed maskmaker
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, and his mask design for that cover was repeated by many other illustrators in subsequent adaptations and reprints. A 1951 condensed version of the book
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by John Wyndham also appeared.


Illustrators

Leading illustrators contributed to the covers of ''Collier's''. They included
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, W.T. Benda, Chesley Bonestell, Charles R. Chickering, Howard Chandler Christy, Arthur Crouch, Harrison Fisher, James Montgomery Flagg, Alan Foster, Charles Dana Gibson,
Vernon Grant Vernon Ethelbert Grant (February 14, 1935 – July 23, 2006) was a cartoonist who did graphic novels, and is also known for his digest-sized comic book series, ''The Love Rangers''. Usually referred to as Vern Grant, he is often credited as the ...
, Emil Hering, Earl Oliver Hurst, Alonzo Myron Kimball, Percy Leason,
Frank X. Leyendecker Frank Xavier Leyendecker (January 19, 1876 – April 18, 1924), also known as Frank James Leyendecker, was a German-American commercial artist and illustrator. He worked with his brother Joseph Christian Leyendecker, in their studio, first in Chi ...
, J. C. Leyendecker, Paul Martin,
John Alan Maxwell John Alan Maxwell (March 7, 1904 – April 13, 1984) was an American artist known primarily for his book and magazine illustrations, as well as historical paintings. He also was an illustrator for many commercial publications, including ''Col ...
, Ronald McLeod, John Cullen Murphy, Maxfield Parrish, Edward Penfield, Robert O. Reed, Frederic Remington, Anthony Saris, John Sloan, Jessie Willcox Smith, Frederic Dorr Steele,
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, Jon Whitcomb and Lawson Wood. Other top illustrators contributed prolifically to their short stories. They included
Harold Mathews Brett Harold Mathews Brett (1880–1955) was an American illustrator and painter best known for his New England scenes and portraits. His style is that of realism and genre works. His illustrations have been featured in ''Harper's Weekly'', ''Collier ...
,
Richard V. Culter Richard V. Culter (September 10, 1883 – January 15, 1929) was an American artist who gained fame as an illustrator known primarily for his detailed drawings of people. Early life Richard Culter was born in Peoria, Illinois on September 10, ...
, Robert Fawcett, Denver Gillen and Quentin Reynolds. In 1903, Gibson signed a $100,000 contract, agreeing to deliver 100 pictures (at $1000 each) during the next four years. From 1904 to 1910,
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was under exclusive contract to ''Collier's'', which published his famed ''Arabian Nights'' paintings in 1906-07.


Investigative journalism

When Norman Hapgood became editor of ''Collier's'' in 1903, he attracted many leading writers. In May 1906, he commissioned Jack London to cover the San Francisco earthquake, a report accompanied by 16 pages of pictures. Under Hapgood's guidance, ''Collier's'' began publishing the work of investigative journalists such as Samuel Hopkins Adams, Ray Stannard Baker,
C.P. Connolly Christopher Patrick Connolly (1863–1935), better known as C.P. Connolly, was an American investigative journalist who was associated for many years with ''Collier's Weekly'' and the muckrakers. Connolly was a former Montana prosecutor. He is re ...
and Ida Tarbell. Hapgood's approach had great impact, resulting in such changes as the reform of the child labor laws, slum clearance and women's suffrage. In April 1905, an article by Upton Sinclair, "Is Chicago Meat Clean?", persuaded the Senate to pass the 1906 Meat Inspection Act. Starting October 7, 1905, Adams startled readers with " The Great American Fraud", an 11-part ''Collier's'' series. Analyzing the contents of popular patent medicines, Adams pointed out that the companies producing these medicines were making false claims about their products and some were health hazards. Hapgood launched the series with the following editorial: "The Great American Fraud" had a powerful impact and led to the first Pure Food and Drug Act (1906). The entire series was reprinted by the American Medical Association in a book, ''The Great American Fraud'', which sold 500,000 copies at 50 cents each. Hapgood had a huge influence on public opinion, and between 1909 and 1912, he succeeded in doubling the circulation of ''Collier's'' from a half million to a million. When he moved on to '' Harper's Weekly'' in 1912, he was replaced as editor for the next couple years by
Robert J. Collier Robert Joseph Collier (June 17, 1876 – November 8, 1918) was the son of Peter Fenelon Collier and a principal in the publishing company P. F. Collier & Son. Upon his father's death, he became head of the company and, for a time, was editor of ...
, the son of the founder. Arthur H. Vandenberg, later to become a prominent
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, had a brief stint as a ''Collier's'' editor during the 1900s.
H. C. Witwer Harry Charles Witwer (March 11, 1890 – August 9, 1929), more commonly known as H. C. Witwer, was an American short-story author. Some 60 comedy film shorts were based on his works, most from the mid-1920s to 1930, the year after Witwer's deat ...
was a war correspondent in France during World War I. Rob Wagner covered the film industry for ''Collier's'' during the 1920s. They reversed their position on prohibition in 1925. This was due to the difficulty in enforcing the referendum, and people's unwillingness to stay away from alcohol. The new law brought about bribing, thieving, corruption and other ills, which far exceeded their expectations. This new alignment gained favor with the public and helped to rebuild circulation. Writers such as Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway, who reported on the Spanish Civil War, helped boost the circulation.
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, who wrote an account of the First World War, was a regular contributor during the 1930s, but his series of articles ended in 1939 when he became a
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in the British government.
Carl Fick Carl Metcalfe Fick (September 23, 1918 – February 23, 1990) was an American documentary film director and author. He was best known for the Cannes award-winning short docudrama '' A Day in the Death of Donny B'' (1969), as well as his novels ''Th ...
was a ''Collier's'' staff writer prior to World War II.


Cartoonists

The magazine's roster of top cartoonists included
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, Carl Anderson, Stan and Jan Berenstain, Sam Berman, Sam Cobean, Jack Cole, A. B. Frost,
Ralph Fuller Ralph Briggs Fuller (March 9, 1890 – August 16, 1963) was an American cartoonist best known for his long-running comic strip ''Oaky Doaks'', featuring the humorous adventures of a good-hearted knight in the Middle Ages. He signed the strips RB. ...
, Dave Gerard,
Vernon Grant Vernon Ethelbert Grant (February 14, 1935 – July 23, 2006) was a cartoonist who did graphic novels, and is also known for his digest-sized comic book series, ''The Love Rangers''. Usually referred to as Vern Grant, he is often credited as the ...
,
Jay Irving Jay Irving (October 3, 1900 – June 3, 1970) was an American cartoonist notable for his syndicated strip ''Pottsy'' about an overweight, goodnatured, dutiful New York police officer, Pottsy, who often came into conflict with his stricter and les ...
, Crockett Johnson,
E. W. Kemble Edward Winsor Kemble (January 18, 1861 – September 19, 1933), usually cited as E. W. Kemble, and sometimes referred to incorrectly as Edward Windsor Kemble, was an American illustrator. He is known best for illustrating the first edition of '' ...
, Hank Ketcham, George Lichty, David Low,
Bill Mauldin William Henry Mauldin (; October 29, 1921 – January 22, 2003) was an American editorial cartoonist who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his work. He was most famous for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers, as represented by the ...
, Virgil Partch, Mischa Richter, William Steig, Charles Henry "Bill" Sykes, Richard Taylor, Gluyas Williams, Gahan Wilson and Rowland B. Wilson. Irving's association with ''Collier's'' began in 1932, and his "Collier's Cops" became a mainstay of the magazine during his 13-year association with it.
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's ''Tizzy'' cartoons first appeared in ''Collier's''. The redheaded Tizzy was a teenage American girl who wore horn-rimmed glasses with triangular lenses. ''Tizzy'' was syndicated by NEA after ''Collier's'' folded. The cartoons were in color in ''Collier's'' but black-and-white in syndication and paperback reprints. After World War II,
Harry Devlin Harry Devlin (March 22, 1918 – November 25, 2001) was an artist and a painter who also worked as a cartoonist for magazines such as '' Collier's''. His work won him the National Cartoonist Society Advertising and Illustration Award for ...
became the top editorial cartoonist at ''Collier's'', one of the few publications then displaying editorial cartoons in full color. During the 1940s, Gurney Williams was the cartoon editor for ''Collier's'', ''American Magazine'' and ''Woman's Home Companion'', paying $40 to $150 for each cartoon. From a staggering stack of some 2000 submissions each week, Williams made a weekly selection of 30 to 50 cartoons, lamenting:
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, before he found fame in animation, had several cartoons published in ''Collier's'' in the late 1920s and early 1930s.


Radio

The circulation battle with '' The Saturday Evening Post'' led to the creation of '' The Collier Hour'', broadcast 1927–32 on the NBC Blue Network. It was radio's first major dramatic anthology series, adapting stories and serials from ''Collier's''. The hour-long program initially aired on the Wednesday before weekly publication, but switched to Sundays to avoid spoilers with stories that appeared simultaneously in the magazine. In 1929 the program began to incorporate music, news, sports and comedy with the dramatic content of the show.


Later years

At the outbreak of World War II in 1941 with William L. Chenery as editor, ''Collier's'' readership reached 2.5 million. In the October 14, 1944, issue, the magazine published one of the first articles about concentration camps. It was Jan Karski's "Polish Death Camp," a harrowing account of his visit to
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. The now problematic title is explored in "Polish death camp controversy", under the heading "Use and Reactions". Karski's book ''Story of a Secret State'', which included the ''Collier's'' excerpt, was published later that year by Houghton Mifflin. It became a Book of the Month Club selection, and bestseller with 400,000 copies sold in 1944-45. The ''Collier's'' selection was reprinted in Robert H. Abzug's ''America Views the Holocaust: 1933-1945'' (Palgrave, 1999). ''Collier's'' had a circulation of 2,846,052 when Walter Davenport took over as editor in 1946, but the magazine began to lose readers during the post-World War II years. ''Collier's'' published a regular men's fashion feature contributed by ''
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and also published long-awaited images from the 200-inch (5.08 m) Hale telescope's first light in 1949. In the early 1950s, ''Collier's'' ran a groundbreaking series of science-based articles speculating on space flight, '' Man Will Conquer Space Soon!'', which prompted the general public to seriously consider the possibility of a trip to the moon, with the percentage of Americans who believed a crewed lunar trip could happen within 50 years changing from 15% to 38% by 1955. In 1951, an entire issue described the events and outcome of a hypothetical war between the United States and the Soviet Union, entitled '' Preview of the War We Do Not Want''. ''Collier's'' changed from a weekly to a biweekly in August 1953, but it continued to lose money. In 1954,
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became a columnist with his "Appointment with O'Hara" column. The magazine ceased publication with the issue for the week ending January 4, 1957. Princess Grace of Monaco was featured on the cover, pregnant with her first child
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.


Books

The company also published the '' Collier's Encyclopedia'', Collier Books and the ''Collier's Year Book''. Patricia Fulford edited ''Over 100 Best Cartoons from Collier's, Ladies Home Journal, Redbook, The American Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, The New Yorker, Argosy, Sport'' (Checkerbooks, 1949), and ''Collier's'' cartoon editor Gurney Williams edited ''Collier's Kids: Cartoons from Collier's About Your Children'', Holt, 1952. ''Collier's'' fiction editor Knox Burger chose 19 stories for ''Collier's Best'' (Harper & Bros., 1951), and he also selected ''Best Stories from Collier's'' (William Kimber, 1952). A huge history and collection appeared with the publication of the 558-page ''A Cavalcade of Collier's'', edited by Kenneth McArdle (Barnes, 1959). Cornelius Ryan's 1957 book ''One Minute to Ditch!'', about the successful ocean ditching of a Pan American Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, was an expansion of his ''Collier's'' article on December 21, 1956. Ryan was an associate editor of the magazine during the mid-1950s, and the novelist Lonnie Coleman was an editorial associate during that same period.


Titles

* Collier's Once a Week (1888-1889) * Once a Week, an Illustrated Weekly Newspaper (1889-1895) * Collier's Weekly, an Illustrated Journal (1895-1904) * Collier's, The National Weekly (1905-1957)


First and last issues

* First Issue: April 28, 1888 * Last Issue: January 4, 1957


Publishing frequency

* Weekly (1888-1953) * Fortnightly (1953-1957)


Publishers

* P.F. Collier, New York (1888-1900) * P.F. Collier and Son, New York (1900-1919) * P.F. Collier & Son Company, editorial offices, New York; publication offices, Springfield, Ohio (1919-1934) * Crowell Publishing Company, editorial offices, New York; publication offices, Springfield, Ohio (1934-1939) * Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, editorial offices, New York; publication offices, Springfield, Ohio (1939-1957)


Editors

* Nugent Robinson (1888-1890) * Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1891) * Julius Chambers (1892-1893) * T.B. Connory (1893-1896) * Daniel Lyons (1896-1898) * Robert Joseph Collier (1898-1902) * Norman Hapgood (1902-1913) * Mark Sullivan (1913-1917) * Finley Peter Dunne (1917-1919) * Harford Powel Jr. (1919-1922) * Richard J. Walsh (1922-1924) * Loren Palmer (1924-1925) * William L. Chenery (1925-1943) * Charles Colebaugh (1943-1944) * Henry La Cossitt (1944-1946) * Walter Davenport (1946-1949) * Louis Ruppel (1949-1952) * Roger Dakin (1952-1955) * Kenneth McArdle (1955-1957) * Paul Clifford Smith, editor-in-chief, (1954-1957)


See also

* " Mnemonics" by Kurt Vonnegut * "
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" by Rudyard Kipling * " The Package" by Kurt Vonnegut * "
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* "
Thanasphere "Thanasphere" is a short story by Kurt Vonnegut, first published on 2 September 1950 in ''Collier's Weekly'', and later in ''Bagombo Snuff Box ''Bagombo Snuff Box'' is a collection of 23 short stories written by Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonneg ...
" by Kurt Vonnegut * " There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury


References


Sources

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External links


''Collier's: The National Weekly''
collection at the Internet Archive
Finding Aid, Crowell-Collier Publishing Company Records, 1931-1955
(PDF). The New York Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library Manuscripts and Archives Division.
''Collier's'' cartoons



First ''Collier's'' cartoon sale by Jack Cole

Online archive of ''Collier's'' covers

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