Talk:Frank Munsey

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The Baltimore News as a New York based newspaper? Cdixon 17:58, 4 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Well, it was a very small world back then. Kids in Jersey used to reach across Delaware to pick apples in Maryland. --Tysto 19:51, 4 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Planning on working on this article[edit]

I'm hoping to be able to work on this article over the next few months, possibly taking it to FAC if I can get access to all the necessary sources. Leaving this note here in case other editors are also interested in working on it. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 02:43, 4 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The current citations are not formatted consistently. I propose to change the formatting to short citations (see e.g. Argosy (magazine) for what that looks like) if there are no objections. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 12:06, 9 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sources[edit]

Starting a list here of sources that may be useful.

  • Anonymous. "Doughnuts and Coffee". The Bookseller and Newsman. 1891.
  • Britt, George "Forty Years — Forty Millions, The Career of Frank A. Munsey". 1935. Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. Murray Hill, New York. Unsympathetic but not actively hostile biography.
  • Chace, James. 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs — The Election That Changed the Country. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. ISBN 0-7432-0394-1 Munsey is covered as Roosevelt's backer; he donated $135K and is quoted at the launch of the campaign. He is one of two main financial angels of the Progressives, along with George Perkins.
  • Cole, Marena. "A Progressive Conservative": The Roles of George Perkins and Frank Munsey in the Progressive Party Campaign of 1912" (PhD dissertation, Tufts University ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10273522). This is an MA thesis so should not be used but might be worth looking at for information that could then be sourced elsewhere. Covers Munsey's role in both financing the campaign and his influence on policy.
  • Cox, J. Randolph (2000). The Dime Novel Companion: A Source Book. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-25674-8.
  • Douglas, George H. The Golden Age of the Newspaper. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. 1999.
  • Duffus, Robert L. (July 1924). "Mr. Munsey". The American Mercury. Vol. II, no. 7. pp. 297–304. Retrieved September 4, 2023. Biography and character sketch; sympathetic. Much of it seems to depend on the 1907 Founding and on the genealogy.
  • Emery, Edwin. The Press and America. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. 1972.
  • Garraty, John A. Right Hand Man: The Life of George W. Perkins, (1960) online Mentions a Roosevelt headquarters established in the 1912 election in the Munsey building.
  • Haining, Peter. The Fantastic Pulps. Vintage Books (a division of Random House), 1975. ISBN 0-394-72109-8 The story introductions give background on Munsey's magazine career, but not the newspapers.
  • Kluger, Richard. The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune.
  • Lowell, D. O. S. A Munsey-Hopkins Genealogy. Boston: privately printed. 1920. Self-published so can't be used for much.
  • Mitchell, Edward. Memoirs of an Editor. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1904.
  • Mott, Frank Luther (1957b). A History of American Magazines: 1885–1905. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. OCLC 52515840.
  • Mowry, George E. Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement. (1946) focus on 1912
  • Munsey, Frank A. (December 1897). "The Publisher's Desk". Munsey's Magazine. 18 (3): 477–478.
  • Munsey, Frank A. (May 1898). "Getting On In Journalism". Munsey's Magazine. 19 (2): 214–224.
  • Munsey, Frank A. (December 1899). "The Making and Marketing of Munsey's Magazine". Munsey's Magazine. XXII (3): 323–343.
  • Munsey, Frank A. (1907). The Story of the Founding and Development of the Munsey Publishing-House. New York: The De Vinne Press. OCLC 7003678.
  • Munsey, Frank A. (December 1907). The Founding of the Munsey Publishing-House. De Vinne Press. Subtitles: Quarter of a Century Old : The Story of The Argosy, Our First Publication, and Incidentally the Story of Munsey's Magazine
  • O'Brien, Frank. The Story of the Sun. New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1928.
  •  Pendergast, Tom (2000). Creating the Modern Man: American Magazines and Consumer Culture 1900-1950. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 0-8262-1280-8.
  • Schneirov, Matthew (2000). The Dream of a New Social Order: Popular Magazines in America 1893-1914. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-08290-8.
  • Seitz, Don C. Joseph Pulitzer: His Life and Letters. Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishers. 1927.
  • Smythe, Ted Curtis (1984). "Frank A. Munsey". In Ashley, Perry (ed.). Dictionary of Literary Biography Volume Twenty-Five: American Newspaper Journalists, 1901-1925. Detroit, Michigan: Broccoli Clark. pp. 211–218.
  • Stone, Gregory. The Day Paper. New London: The Day Publishing Company. 2000.
  • Sumner, David E.; Rhoades, Shirrel (2006). Magazines: A Complete Guide to the Industry. New York: Peter Lang. ISBN 0-8204-7617-X.
  • Tassin, Algernon (1916). The Magazine in America. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company.
  • Tebbel, John. The Compact History of the American Newspaper. New York: Hawthorn Books. 1963.
  • Thayer, John Adams. Astir. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co. 1910.
  • Titherington, Richard (March 1926). "In Memoriam: Frank A. Munsey". Munsey's Magazine. 87 (2): front matter.
  • Turner, H. B. When Giants Ruled. 1994.
  • Wood, James Playsted. The Story of Advertising. New York: Ronald Press. 1958.
  • 1922 Britannica article
  • Works by or about Frank Munsey at Internet Archive
  • Encyclopædia Britannica: Frank Andrew Munsey
  • Newspaper clippings about Frank Munsey in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW
  • NYT article on his funeral Lisbon Falls, 29 May 1926
  • NYT prices paid for newspapers

Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 16:16, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Magazines to cover[edit]

List taken from Mott IV p. 617 n.

  • Golden Argosy/Argosy 1882-1979
  • Munsey's Illustrated Weekly 1884
  • Munsey's Weekly/Munsey's Monthly 1889-1929
  • Puritan 1897-1901
  • Quaker/Junior Munsey 1897-1902
  • All-Story Magazine 1905-
  • Railroad Man's Magazine 1906-1919
  • Scrap Book 1906-1912
  • Woman 1906-1907
  • Ocean/Live Wire 1907-1908
  • Cavalier 1908-1914

-- Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 03:29, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sources from the ANB[edit]

Sources listed by the American Dictionary of National Biography:

  • George Britt, Forty Years—Forty Millions: The Career of Frank A. Munsey (1935), is the most complete biographical source.
  • Evaluations of Munsey’s professional career are included in
  • Personal statements about Munsey are to be found in
    • Robert L. Duffus, “Mr. Munsey, American Mercury, 2 July 1924, pp. 297–304
    • Erman Jesse Ridgeway, “Frank A. Munsey: An Appreciation” (privately printed, 1926)
    • R. H. Titherington, “In Memoriam: Frank A. Munsey”, Munsey’s Magazine, Mar. 1926, pp. 189–93
  • Obituaries are in
    • The New York Times, 12 Dec. 1925 and 10 Jan. 1926,
    • The New York Sun, 22 Dec. 1925.

-- Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 22:24, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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