Endowments; Publishers and publishing; Periodicals--Publishing; Washington (D.C.); Collins, Paul V. (Paul Valorous), 1860-1931
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Date
[between 1886 and 1919?]
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 79
Note
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COLLINS, Paul V., editor of the Northwestern Agriculturist and president of the P.V. Collins Publishing Company... In August 1904 the P.V. Collins Publishing Company was incorporated for publishing the Northwestern Agriculturist and The Home Magazine, Mr. Collins holding a controlling interest in the corporation and being its president and manager. With this business he is still engaged, and under his editorial and business management, the Northwestern Agriculturist has attained a position of leadership amongst the agricultural press. Mr. Collins is prominent in the various press and editorial associations of the country, and has held offices in several of the more important. In 1904 he was president of the National Editorial Association and one of the two vice presidents for America of the World's Press Congress, both of which organizations met at the St. Louis World's Exposition. The meeting of the National Editorial Association on that occasion were the largest editorial gatherings ever held in the world, the average daily attendance exceeding a thousand, including the best known journalists of the country, Mr. Collins was also (in 1901) president of the National Agricultural Press League..." [SOURCE: "Newspapers, Publishing and Printing." A Half Century of Minneapolis. Edited by Horace B. Hudson, Minneapolis, The Hudson Publishing Company, 1908, pp. 225-226. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=F2ZAAAAAYAAJ. Accessed 31 Oct. 2018.]