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Taken: February 21, 1925
Caption: First Cover of the New Yorker (reproduction)
Additional Description: "The New Yorker debuted on February 21, 1925. It was founded by Harold Ross and his wife, Jane Grant, a New York Times reporter. Ross wanted to create a sophisticated humor magazine that would be different from perceivably "corny" humor publications....Ross partnered with entrepreneur Raoul H. Fleischmann (who founded the General Baking Company) to establish the F-R Publishing Company. The magazine's first offices were at 25 West 45th Street in Manhattan. Ross edited the magazine until his death in 1951. During the early, occasionally precarious years of its existence, the magazine prided itself on its cosmopolitan sophistication. Ross famously declared in a 1925 prospectus for the magazine: 'It has announced that it is not edited for the old lady in Dubuque.' " - Wikipedia
Submitted: December 1, 2017, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p406455
File Size: 0.183 Megabytes

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