USA: University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02874
Notes:
230 pages., Documents ready-print services (sometimes known as patent insides)that furnished newspapers printed on one side, or on two or more pages, to subscribing publishers. Estimated in 1912 to reach 60 million readers in the U.S. Author explores what was being written in those newspapers, and by whom.
Evans, James F. (author), Salcedo, Rodolfo N. (author), and Office of Agricultural Communications and Education, University of Illinois, Urbana; Environmental Scientist, Department of City Development, Milwaukee, WI
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1974
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 35 Document Number: B03681
Notes:
Contains Table of Contents and Preface only; Phase I, Ames, IA : Iowa State University Press, 1974. 264 p.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22955
Notes:
Jim Evans Collection, 385 pages., "A behind-the-scenes story of Reiman Publications, a company that began in a basement, was built on 'wild ideas' and become a publishing empire that sold for $760 million."
USA: Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, Illinois.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C15126
Notes:
320 pages., Chapter 10 (pp. 226-238) "Down on the Farm" - describes early farm magazines, leading farm periodicals, regionals, journals featuring special breeds and crops, and those for rural youths. --- Chapter 11 (pp. 239-272) "Land of the Giants" - includes information about farm publishers such as Meredith Corporation, The Miller Publishing Company, Prairie Farmer Publishing Company and Watt Publishing Company.
USA: University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 111 Document Number: C10788
Notes:
329 pages., Biography of Burridge D. Butler, owner of Prairie Farmer state farm paper, Radio Station WLS, Chicago, Illinois, and other media organizations in Arizona during his industrious career. Chronicles the history of these two major mass media organizations which he came to control early in the 1900s.
