1850, JuneFirst issue of
Harper's Magazine published by Harper & Brothers
of New York as a compendium of periodical articles and serialized
fiction18501856Henry J. Raymond, editor18561869Alfred H. Guernsey, editor18691919Henry Mills Alden, editor19191931Thomas B. Wells, editor19311941Lee Foster Hartman, editor19411953Frederick Lewis Allen, editor19531967John Fischer, editor1962Merger of Harper & Brothers with Row, Peterson, & Co.
to create Harper & Row1965Magazine purchased by Minneapolis Star and Tribune
Company19671971Willie Morris, editor19711975Robert Shnayerson, editor19751981Lewis Lapham, editor1980Magazine sold to the John D. and Catharine T. MacArthur
Foundation and the Atlantic Richfield Foundation to be run as an independent
nonprofit enterprise1982Harper's Magazine Foundation established19821983Michael Kinsley, editor1983Lewis Lapham, editorFrom the guide to the Harper's Magazine Records, 1847-1983, (bulk 1940-1983), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)