{"id":213,"date":"2011-09-27T22:06:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T22:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/?p=213"},"modified":"2011-09-27T22:06:25","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T22:06:25","slug":"hearst-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/09\/27\/hearst-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearst Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upon his death on August 14, 1951, William Randolph Hearst&#8217;s estate included a publishing company with assets of more than $160,000,000, comprised of 18 newspapers and 9 magazines. These were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boston <em>American<\/em>; (pub. 1951-1954)<\/li>\n<li>Boston <em>Record<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Boston <em>Sunday Advertiser<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Albany <em>Times-Union <\/em>(pub. 1891-current; on microfilm at Albany Public Library)<\/li>\n<li>New York <em>Journal-American<\/em>\u00a0(pub. 1941-1966; on microfilm at LoC)<\/li>\n<li>New York <em>Mirror<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Baltimore <em>News-Post<\/em>\u00a0(pub. 1936-1964; on microfilm at LoC)<\/li>\n<li>Baltimore <em>Sunday American<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Pittsburgh<em>\u00a0Sun-Telegraph <\/em>(1927-1960; on microfilm at\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 10px;letter-spacing: 1px;line-height: 26px\">office of Commonwealth Libr Bur of State, Harrisburg, PA)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Detroit <em>Times<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Chicago <em>Herald-American <\/em>(1939-1953; on microfilm at LoC)<\/li>\n<li>Milwaukee <em>Sentinel<\/em><\/li>\n<li>San Antonio<em>\u00a0Light<\/em>\u00a0(1911-1993)<\/li>\n<li>Los Angeles <em>Examiner <\/em>(1903-1962; L.A. public library; 1945 at LoC)<\/li>\n<li>Los Angeles <em>\u00a0Herald-Express<\/em><\/li>\n<li>San Francisco <em>Examiner <\/em>\u00a0(1902-current; LoC)<\/li>\n<li>San Francisco <em>Call Bulletin<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Seattle<em>\u00a0Post-Intelligencer<\/em>\u00a0(1921-2009)<\/li>\n<li><em>Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping*, Harper&#8217;s Bazar*, House Beautiful, Town and Country, Motor, Motor Boating, American Druggist, Connoisseur <\/em>(* also published in London)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hearst was also associated with <em>The American Weekly<\/em>, King Features Service, International News Service and International News Photos.<\/p>\n<p>After World War II, Hearst controlled 10% of daily circulation, the largest news corporation in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>W.A. Swanberg, <em>Citizen Hearst: A Biography of William Randolph Hearst <\/em>(New York: Charles Scribner&#8217;s Sons, 1961), 531-532.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas C. Leonard. &#8220;Hearst, William Randolph&#8221;;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anb.org\/articles\/16\/16-00738.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.anb.org\/articles\/16\/16-00738.html<\/a>;\u00a0<em>American National Biography Online<\/em>\u00a0Feb. 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Library of Congress, <em>Chronicling America<\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon his death on August 14, 1951, William Randolph Hearst&#8217;s estate included a publishing company with assets of more than $160,000,000, comprised of 18 newspapers and 9 magazines. These were: Boston American; (pub. 1951-1954) Boston Record Boston Sunday Advertiser Albany &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/09\/27\/hearst-papers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41112,39567],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspaper","category-primary-sources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}