Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary We would have to assume that one hundred years ago this week, Harold Ross was sitting with, at the least, a fairly complete “dummy” of, or perhaps an early run copy of the very first issue of his new magazine, The New Yorker — maybe (likely!) putting some final touches on it. In
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Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary: 25 West 45th Street Here’s a contemporary photo of 25 West 45th Street, where The New Yorker‘s first offices were located (the building was, in the 1920s, owned by the Fleischmann family. Raoul Fleischmann, who put up the lion’s share of cash to fund the new magazine, offered office space to Harold Ross).
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Fave Photo OF The Week: Maggie Larson And The Sturgeon King Maggie Larson, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017, posted this photo on social media the other day. We see Ms. Larson standing with The Sturgeon King himself. Ms. Larson is holding an original New Yorker drawing that originally appeared in the December 24, 2024 issue. Visit Maggie
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A Group: Hokinson, Irvin, Petty, Geo. Price, Steig, Peter Arno, Suares, Alajalov Since we’re in The New Yorker‘s 100th birthday celebration year I thought it would be fun to do a grouping of some of the magazine’s artists (I haven’t done one for awhile). Here’s what you see above: The foundation for the photo is a large poster of George
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