Collier’s — April 13, 1912

Founded by the Irish-born subscription-book entrepreneur Peter Fenelon Collier in New York City, Collier’s was launched on April 28, 1888 under the title Collier’s Once a Week; it was renamed Collier’s Weekly: An Illustrated Journal in 1895 and Collier’s: The National Weekly in 1905. The magazine became known both for muckraking journalism — including Samuel Hopkins Adams’s 1905 series on patent-medicine fraud, which led directly to the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act — and for the strength of its cover art. Among the illustrators who contributed cover work were Frederic Remington, Maxfield Parrish (who was under exclusive contract to the magazine from 1904 to 1910), Charles Dana Gibson, Howard Chandler Christy, J. C. and Frank X. Leyendecker, James Montgomery Flagg, and Alonzo Myron Kimball. After Robert J. Collier’s death in 1918 the magazine was sold to the Crowell Publishing Company in 1919, and printing moved from New York to Springfield, Ohio in 1924. The final issue appeared January 4, 1957.

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