Magazines and the American experience : highlights from the collection of Steven Lomazow, MD / [Steven Lomazow ; introduction by Heather A. Haveman].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lomazow, Steven, 1948- author.

Contributor:

Haveman, Heather A., writer of introduction.

Grolier Club, host insitution, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American periodicals--History--Exhibitions.

American periodicals.

Lomazow, Steven, 1948---Library--Exhibitions.

Lomazow, Steven.

Lomazow, Steven, 1948-.

Libraries.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 337, [1] pages : color illustrations, facsimiles ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : The Grolier Club, 2020.

Contents:

Preface : Magazines!

"Magazine magic"

Introduction : The early history of the magazine industry

A chronology of American magazines. Building a nation : 1733-92

A house divided : 1979-1850

The industrial age : 1851-92

America and the world : 1893-1945

The information age 1946-present

Specialty magazines. The urge to reform : radical magazines

A nation of readers : literary magazines

Literature for the people : pulp magazines

"What fools these mortals be!" : humor magazines

Great American pastimes : sports magazines

Separate and unequal : African American magazines

The show must go on : theater, movie, radio, and television magazines

On the move : transportation magazines

Images of a nation : art and magazines.

Notes:

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Grolier Club, New York, January 20-April 24, 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Reference copy has dust jacket.

ISBN:

9781605830919

1605830917

OCLC:

1237768522