The Saturday Evening Post — May 6, 1905
$19.00
An original cover of The Saturday Evening Post, dated May 6, 1905. Restored from the Internet Archive scan. Public-domain in the United States.
Description
The Saturday Evening Post — May 6, 1905
At a glance
- Real dated magazine cover from May 6, 1905
- Restored from a Internet Archive public-domain scan
- Six high-resolution JPGs at 300 DPI
- Three frame sizes: 8×10, 11×14, 16×20 inches
- Two finishes included: Pure and Heirloom
- One-page printing reference PDF included
Source & publication note
The Saturday Evening Post traces its origin to a printing shop at 53 Market Street in Philadelphia where Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette had once been printed; the first issue under the Post title appeared on August 4, 1821. Cyrus H. K. Curtis, publisher of the Ladies’ Home Journal, bought the magazine for $1,000 in 1897 and brought it under his Curtis Publishing Company. Under editor George Horace Lorimer (1899–1937) it grew into the most widely circulated weekly magazine in the United States. In 1916 Lorimer discovered a 22-year-old illustrator named Norman Rockwell, who painted his first Post cover that year and went on to contribute more than three hundred covers over a fifty-year association with the magazine. Other cover illustrators during the public-domain window included J. C. Leyendecker, Anton Otto Fischer, Alonzo Myron Kimball, and N. C. Wyeth. Jack London’s The Call of the Wild was first serialized in the Post in 1903.
Source: Internet Archive. This work is in the public domain in the United States.
