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Collier's Weekly was an American magazine founded by Peter Fenelon Collier and published from 1888 to 1957. With the passage of decades, the title was shortened to Collier's.
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As a result of Peter Collier's pioneering investigative journalism, Collier's Weekly established a reputation as a proponent of social reform. When attempts by various companies to sue Collier ended in failure, other magazines became involved in what Theodore Roosevelt described as "muckraking journalism."
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Thanks to Archive supporters Kent Butterworth and Mike Fontanelli, our database includes many great examples of classic illustration from the pages of the "Rolls Royce" of weekly publications, Colliers magazine. In the past, we've covered mid 30s Colliers illustrations, mid 30s advertisements, and late 40s Colliers illustrations. Today, we turn our attention to a very interesting time in American history, WWII. The war effort permeated everyday life throughout the nation, from the richest person all the way down to the poorest. This magazine reflects that, with feature stories, illustrations and ads that all reflect wartime themes. (For more on WWII, see Walt's War, Wartime Propaganda, Dispatch From Disney's and Artzybasheff's Diablerie.)
A special thanks to Allen Heasley of the MVAS for keeping this article in such fine condition. What you see here is an unretouched copy from 1949.
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Collier's had a circulation of 2,846,052 when Walter Davenport took over as editor in 1946, but the magazine began to lose readers during the post-World War II years. Collier's published long awaited images from the 200-inch (5.08 m) Hale telescope's first light in 1949.[5] In the early 1950s, Collier's ran a groundbreaking series of articles about space flight, Man Will Conquer Space Soon! which prompted the general public to seriously consider the possibility of a trip to the moon. Collier's changed from a weekly to a biweekly in August 1953, but it continued to lose money. The magazine ceased publication on December 16, 1956, along with the Woman's Home Companion. It continued, however, to publish Collier's Encyclopedia and Collier’s Junior Classics.[1]
A huge history and collection of material from the magazine appeared three years later with the publication of the 558-page A Cavalcade of Collier's, edited by Kenneth McArdle (Barnes, 1959).
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In March 1952, Colliers Magazine began a series of articles by a team of 23 contributors, headed by the German-American rocket scientist Wernher von Braun. The team of experts, scientists and space-advocates used the magazine to vividly illustrate their dramatic vision of the near future, and how humans could exploit the seemingly endless possibilities found in space.
Over the course of the series, various subjects such as spacecraft, spacesuits, planetary science, orbital trajectories and even the finer details of Lunar and Martian exploration were presented.
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When Werner Von Braun et al presented their plan for a future space programme in Colliers magazine they realised that it wasn't a matter of leaping straight to Mars. Space was a new frontier about which very little was known and therefore it had to be approached cautiously.
This "baby space station" was intended as man's first toe-dip into the ocean of space. Fitted as the nosecone of its booster rocket, the Colliers satellite would unfurl itself in orbit as a miniature robot laboratory.
Inside,
we can see that this wasn't just an instrument package, but carried passengers
as well. In this case, it's a pair of extremely irate monkeys sent up to
determine the effects of weightlessness on future astronauts.
The monkeys would have been even more irate if they'd known beforehand how this proto space station was intended to end its mission
Very irate.
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