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Curtis Publishing Company Letters
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Curtis Publishing Company was founded by Cyrus H. Curtis in 1890. Curtis started a weekly magazine in Boston, The people's ledger in 1872 and moved the paper to Philadelphia in 1876. He sold it in 1878 and began a farm family paper, Tribune and farmer (1878-1885), the following year. The ladies' home journal became a paper in its own right in 1883, having grown out of the women's section of the Tribune. The circulation of the Journal grew to 1 million in 10 years. In 1897, Curtis bought the Saturday evening post for 1,000 and sales rose from 2,000 copies to 2.7 million in 1911. Curtis acquired the Country gentleman in 1911. He also entered the newspaper field but this venture proved unsuccessful. Curtis was also interested in music and donated substanially to its development in Philadelphia.
Three letters regarding the loss of stock certificates and the procedures to be followed in replacing these certificates. A fourth letter advises the Real Estate Trust Company that Curtis Publishing has purchased thirty shares of preferred stock from E.V. Alley.
Donated by Maxwell Whiteman, 1984.
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- Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center
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- Katy Rawdon, Coordinator of Technical Services
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- January 2024
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