Century Company records, 1870-1924
Century Company, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Poultney Bigelow, Clarence Clough Buel, Henry Guy Carleton, Andrew Carnegie, Willa Cather, Randolph Spencer Churchill, James Fenimore Cooper, Royal Cortissoz, Jefferson Davis, Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh, Alexander Drake, Theodore Dreiser, Worthington Chauncey Ford, Paul Leicester Ford, Richard Watson Gilder, Isabel Florence Hapgood, Julian Hawthorne, J. G. Holland, Henry Holt, Robert Underwood Johnson, Elizabeth Shaw Melville, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jacob A. Riis, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Albert Shaw, Elizabeth Stoddard, Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Edith Wharton, Authors' League of America, Charles Scribner's Sons, J.B. Lippincott Company, Theodore L. De Vinne & Co
Records consist of correspondence, manuscripts, vouchers, proofs of articles and other materials concerning the publications of the Century Company. Letters, 1881-1917, include mostly incoming letters to the editors from contributors or potential contributors. Civil War material consists of letters written by Union and Confederate veterans of the U.S. Civil War; articles and proofs of articles (with annotations) concerning the war; and notes, lists, memoranda, and printed matter. Contributors series contains manuscripts and correspondence sent to the Century. St. Nicholas Magazine materials, ca. 1911-1917, include correspondence, manuscripts and vouchers for the juvenile magazine. Yosemite National Park and Spanish-American War series consists of correspondence. Permit books contain correspondence, 1904-1924, between the Century Company and owners, art dealers, photographers, publishers, and agents for permission to reproduce art and documents in the Century and St. Nicholas magazines (includes reproductions of the specific art.)
Archival Material, English, 1870
History
147 linear ft. (151 boxes)
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