The Philadelphia Press
The Philadelphia Press (or The Press) is a defunct newspaper that was published from August 1, 1857 to October 1, 1920.
The paper was founded by John Weiss Forney. Charles Emory Smith was editor and owned a stake in the paper from 1880 until his death in 1908. In 1920, it was purchased by Cyrus Curtis, who merged the Press into the Public Ledger.[1]
Before being published in book form, Stephen Crane's 1895 novel The Red Badge of Courage was serialized in The Philadelphia Press in 1894.[2]
Notable contributors
- John Russell Young (chief Civil War correspondent)
- Thomas Morris Chester (African-American Civil War correspondent)
- William Glackens, George Luks, Everett Shinn, and John French Sloan (the "Philadelphia Four", illustrators)
- Elisha Jay Edwards (1847-1924), investigative journalist
- Benjamin De Casseres worked from at the Press from 1892 to 1899
See also
References
- ^ Anonymous (17 March 1930). "Again, Curtis-Martin". Time Magazine. Retrieved 2008-04-12.
- ^ Keith Carrabine, "Introduction," The Red Badge of Courage & Other Stories, (Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth, 2003), xix.
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