Special Collections Department McClure Publishing Company
Archives please note * This is not a comprehensive company archive.*
Researchers seeking reprints of specific articles or access to bound issues
may request these services through Interlibrary Loan Manuscript Collection Number
Accessioned : Purchase, June 1987.
Extent : 1 linear ft.
Content : Correspondence, clippings, interviews, notes, photographs, manuscripts,
financial and legal documents.
Access : The collection is open for research.
Processed : November 1997, by Shanon Lawson. for reference assistance email Special Collections or contact: Special Collections, University of Delaware Library
Newark, Delaware 19717-5267 Table of Contents - Historical and Biographical Note
Scope and Contents Note Contents List Historical and Biographical Note The publishing enterprises of Samuel Sidney McClure are an important facet of early twentieth-century American journalism. The McClure Syndicate, started by Samuel Sidney McClure in 1884, was the first successful company of its kind, and was largely responsible for introducing many American and British writers to a national public. His later venture, McClure's Magazine , contained the influential "muckraking" articles of Ida Tarbell, Ray Stannard Baker, and Lincoln Steffens; it also had the distinction of promoting the then-unknown writer, Willa Cather. Although S.S. McClure's tenuous business competency would cause him to lose control over these ventures in the early part of the twentieth century, other members of his family, most notably his cousin, Henry Herbert McClure (d. 1938), were able to maintain a more steady career in the publishing world through the 1930s. | |
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