McClure's
Template:Infobox magazine McClure's or McClure's Magazine (1893–1929) was an American illustrated monthly periodical popular at the turn of the 20th century.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> The magazine is credited with having started the tradition of muckraking journalism (investigative, watchdog, or reform journalism), and helped direct the moral compass of the day.<ref name="Fang">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Greg Gross (1997), The Staff Breakup of McClure's Magazine, chapter 2. Template:Webarchive</ref>
The publishing company briefly got into the film business with McClure Pictures.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
HistoryEdit
Founded by S. S. McClure (1857–1949) and John Sanborn Phillips (1861–1949),<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> who had been classmates at Knox College, in June 1893.<ref name="SabatoErnst2014">Template:Cite book</ref> Phillips put up the US$7,300 (Template:Inflation) needed to launch the magazine.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The magazine included both political and literary content, publishing serialized novels-in-progress, a chapter at a time. In this way, McClure's published writers including Willa Cather, Arthur Conan Doyle, Herminie T. Kavanagh, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Lincoln Steffens, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Mark Twain.
At the beginning of the 20th century, its major competitors included Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post.
Examples of its work include Ida Tarbell's series in 1902 exposing the monopoly abuses of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company, and Ray Stannard Baker's earlier look at the United States Steel Corporation, which focused the public eye on the conduct of corporations. From January 1907 to June 1908, McClure's published the first detailed history of Christian Science and the story of its founder, Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910) in 14 installments.<ref>McClure's, December 1906; Milmine, January 1907 – June 1908, 14 articles.</ref> The articles were later published in book form as The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science (1909).<ref>Stouck, David. "Introduction," in Willa Cather and Georgine Milmine. The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science. University of Nebraska Press, 1993.</ref>
In 1906 three staffers left to form The American Magazine. Shortly thereafter McClure's found itself in financial trouble, in part because a publishing plant the company was building for a planned cost of $105,000 (Template:Inflation) ultimately cost over three times that amount. Advertising revenue had also fallen. By 1911 S.S. McClure had lost control of the company, and was forced to sell the magazine to creditors.<ref>Harold S. Wilson, McClure's Magazine and the Muckrakers, Princeton University Press, 2015, 188–189.</ref> In 1916 the magazine published the First McClure Automobile Year Book, with the specifications and pictures of over 100 different major manufacturers of passenger and commercial vehicles.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The magazine was re-styled as a women's magazine and ran inconsistently in this format, with publication paused from October 1921 to February 1922, September 1924 to April 1925, and February 1926 to May 1926. Issues from July 1928 were published under the name New McClure's Magazine; the last issue was in March 1929, after which the magazine was taken over by The Smart Set.<ref>Union List of Serials ... 3rd Edition. New York, H. W. Wilson, 1965. p. 3003.</ref>
McClure PicturesEdit
FilmographyEdit
- The Seven Deadly Sins (1917), a series
- The Fighting Roosevelts, renamed Our Teddy after the death of Teddy Roosevelt<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Mother<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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Writers and editorsEdit
StaffEdit
- Ray Stannard Baker
- Witter Bynner
- Willa Cather
- Burton J. Hendrick
- Will Irwin
- S. S. McClure
- Lincoln Steffens
- Mark Sullivan
- Ida Tarbell
- William Allen White
- Marion Hamilton Carter
- John Sanborn Phillips
- George Kibbe Turner
Other contributorsEdit
- J. M. Barrie
- Stephen Crane
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Herminie T. Kavanagh
- Rudyard Kipling
- Bruno Lessing
- Jack London
- Georgine Milmine
- Frank Norris
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- Marjorie Pickthall (1900s–1910s)<ref name="DiCaBio">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Frank Crane (1861–1928), Presbyterian minister, speaker, and columnist<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite wikisource</ref>
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Mark Twain
ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
- "The Staff Breakup of McClure's Magazine"
- Advertisements in McClure's Magazine 1920s
- McClure's Magazine at Project Gutenberg, filed under Various (plain text and HTML)
- McClure's Magazine at Internet Archive, misc. volumes (scanned books original editions color illustrated)
- McClure's Magazine at Hathi Trust, misc. volumes (scanned books original editions)
- McClure's Magazine at Google Books, misc. volumes (scanned books original editions)
- McClure's Magazine at The Modernist Journals Project: 117 cover-to-cover, searchable issues from February 1900 (issue 14.2) through December 1910 (issue 36.2) that include original wrappers, contents pages, and advertising. PDFs of these issues may be downloaded for free from the MJP website.