Liberty Magazine Historical Archive, 1924-1950


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Verlagsinformation :: Publisher's information Liberty: A Weekly for Everybody was founded in 1924 by Joseph Patterson, publisher of the New York Daily News, and Robert McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune and often regarded as the world's greatest publisher. From ist inception, they set out to make the magazine more topical, daring, and exciting than any competitors. Information was presented in a style heavily influenced by the emerging motion picture industry and focused on the most sensational and popular issues. The magazine flourished when illustrated magazines were the most important form of mass entertainment. This was an era of unique creativity and growing involvement in world affairs. For twenty-six years, the magazine charted the moods, attitudes, lifestyles, fads, and fortunes of middle America through ist three most significant decades. The magazine's ongoing circulation of more than 3 million weekly was founded on the high quality and originality of its art, stories, and other features. Its prominence and willingness to pay for the best attracted original contributions from the greatest artists, writers, celebrities, and statesmen of the age. Liberty Magazine Historical Archive, 1924–1950 provides users engaged in research of the twentieth century a delightful range of art, stories, articles, and advertisements offering valuable insight into life in the United States during the Depression era and World War II. It offers a rich perspective of the everyday lives of working-class and middle-class America that no other resource can match. Gale licensed the magazine's content from the Liberty Library Corporation, owned by Robert Whiteman, who has collected and organized the content over many years. Liberty played host to some of the most famous artists, authors, writers, celebrities, and political figures of its time. Chief among them were artists such as McClelland Barclay, Neysa McMein, Peter Arno, Arthur William Brown, Wallace Morgan, W.T. Benda, Cesare, Robin Kirby, Harold Anderson, and Walt Disney; writers including Paul Gallico, Irvin S. Cobb, John Galsworthy, P.G. Wodehouse, Agatha Christie, Dr. Seuss, H.L. Mencken, and F. Scott Fitzgerald; and celebrities and statesmen including Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mahatma Ghandi, Winston Churchill, H.G. Wells, Mae West, Leon Trotsky, Benito Mussolini, and Al Capone. Content from Liberty consists of 17,000 fiction and nonfiction copyrighted articles and features a wide range of materials, including: Adventure stories: Over 900, from 1,000-5,000 words Short-short stories: Approximately 1,000 Mystery, suspense, and spy stories: Nearly 1,500 Human interest stories: Nearly 1000 "Continued Next Week," or serial stories: Approximately 300, from 5,000-90,000 words, primarily the work of top authors in fiction Western stories: 300, many written by the deans of American Western fiction on the wild, wild West Biographies and autobiographies: 150, insights into the lives of the rich and powerful Love stories: Over 1,000 Stories from World War I and World War II: Nearly 500, as well as stories from various guerrilla conflicts Humor stories: 340 Articles: 10,000, from notable figures ranging from Albert Einstein to Greta Garbo to George Bernard Shaw Art: Over 11,300 covers by artists and illustrators such as Leslie Thrasher, John Held, and James Montgomery Flagg, and thousands of ads Platform Features & Tools Term Frequency: Researchers can see the frequency of search terms within sets of content to begin identifying central themes and assessing how individuals, events, and ideas interact and develop over time. Topic Finder: By grouping commonly occurring themes, this tool reveals hidden connections within search terms—helping to shape research by integrating diverse content with relevant information. Cross-Search Capability: Search across the content of complementary primary source products in one intuitive environment, enabling innovative new research connections.
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