Harper & Brothers

Harper & Brothers

Harper & Brothers was a prominent New York City book and magazine publishing firm which founded "Harper's Magazine".

James Harper and his brother John, printers by training, started their book publishing business J. & J. Harper in 1817. Their two brothers, Joseph Wesley Harper and Fletcher Harper, joined them in the mid 1820s. The company changed its name to "Harper & Brothers" in 1833. The headquarters of the publishing house were located at 331 Pearl Street, facing Franklin Square in Lower Manhattan (about where the Manhattan approach to the Brooklyn Bridge lies today).

Harper & Brothers began publishing "Harper's New Monthly Magazine" in 1850. The brothers also published "Harper's Weekly" (starting in 1857) and "Harper's Bazar" (starting in 1867).

George B. M. Harvey became president of Harpers on Nov. 16, 1899. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9505E2DB1530E132A25754C1A9679D94689ED7CF HARPER & BROS. REORGANIZE.; G.B.M. Harvey, Editor and Proprietor of Th... - Article Preview - The New York Times ] ]

"Harper's New Monthly Magazine" ultimately became "Harper's Magazine", which is now published by the Harper's Magazine Foundation. "Harper's Weekly" was absorbed by "The Independent" (New York; later Boston) in 1916, which in turn merged with "The Outlook" in 1928. "Harper's Bazar" was sold to William Randolph Hearst in 1913 and is now "Bazaar", published by the Hearst Corporation.

In 1962 Harper & Brothers merged with Row, Peterson & Company to become Harper & Row. Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation acquired Harper & Row in 1987, and William Collins & Sons in 1990. The names of these two national publishing houses (Harper & Row in the United States and Collins in Britain) survives in the newly formed HarperCollins, which has since expanded its international reach with further acquisitions of formerly independent publishers.

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* [http://www.dentongenealogy.org/Harper%20Brothers%20Publishing.htm The Harper Brothers Founders of Harper Brothers Publishing]


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