New Yorker public relations department materials 1932-1988

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New Yorker public relations department materials 1932-1988

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Records consist of miscellaneous memos and correspondence; promotional brochures and artifacts illustrated by New Yorker artists; tearsheets of advertisements; typescripts of copy for "Inside the New Yorker," a weekly public relations newsletter consisting of press releases describing future articles, reactions to past articles, sales, and authors; and corrected galleys of "Talk of the Town" for the issue of October 14, 1985. "Inside the New Yorker" copy is accompanied by notes from Editor Williams Shawn. Memos include copies of William Shawn's resignation letter of February 12, 1987, and the March 8, 1985 announcement of the magazine's merger with Advanced Publications Inc.

.33 linear feet (1 box)

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6313807

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Ross, Harold Wallace, 1892-1951

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New Yorker Magazine, Inc.

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Harold Ross and the Founding of The New Yorker Harold W. Ross was born in 1892 in Aspen, Colorado to George Ross, an Irish immigrant, and Ida Ross, a school teacher from Kansas. Ross dropped out of high school after his sophomore year. His first job as a newspaper man was in Salt Lake City, at The Tribune. He became a tramp newspaperman, working at 23 newspapers in 6 years. In 1917 he enlisted in the Army. During World War I he was a staff member and then editor of Stars...

Shawn, William

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