According to Frank Luther Mott's "A History of American
Magazines", the conventional spelling for "Harper's Bazar"
was substituted beginning in 1929 by Charles Hansen Towne
(he became editor in 1926). June Howard, in "Publishing
the Family" (Duke UP 2001) noted the Harpers (of Harper's
Bazar founded in 1867) initially named the magazine after
the German magazine Der Bazar (she also talked more about
the 1929 magazine name changeover in her paper at the
2001 Modern Language Association seminar in New Orleans.
I desire to know WHY/DOCUMENTED REASON(S) (please
identify your source for the answer) that the second
letter "a" after the letter "z" was added to the
magazine currently titled Harper's Bazaar? |
Request for Question Clarification by
nellie_bly-ga
on
22 Oct 2002 08:52 PDT
I'm sorry I have not been able to make the trip to Philadelphia yet
(It requires several hours.) because of unexpected circumstances.
I hope to do so later this week.
Nellie Bly
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Request for Question Clarification by
aceresearcher-ga
on
23 Oct 2002 09:47 PDT
1901bell,
I apologize if this was asked already, and I missed it:
Have you asked the people at your HB subdivision if they have the
first edition of the magazine under the name Harper's "Bazaar" (rather
than "Bazar") in their archives? (One would think that they should,
unless their archives were destroyed at some point by water or fire.)
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Clarification of Question by
1901bell-ga
on
23 Oct 2002 10:36 PDT
I have not asked our parnet company that exact question, but their
are the publsher for that and numerous other magazines and they are
asking the question...their hope is employee knowledge or knowhow can
help them solve the question at hand...
I will ask the main editor at the parent company who is heading up
this question your exact comment/question about the first issue, and
then I'll
share the response, asap.
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Clarification of Question by
1901bell-ga
on
23 Oct 2002 12:51 PDT
Checked with publisher's home office, they stated that the "archives"
don't exist, so if someone can use the internet to track down copies
of Bazaar from 1929 it might help solve the pending question...
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Request for Question Clarification by
nellie_bly-ga
on
25 Oct 2002 21:23 PDT
Well, I'm afraid we've reached the end of the road.
I viewed the 1929 issues of Harper's Bazar/Bazaar today. The name
changed with the November issue. There was no editorial
acknowledgement of the change in
the Aug, Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec issues.
Two items of note:
The name of the publisher Haper's Bazar, Inc. did NOT change with the
magazine title.
Perhaps a clue -- an editorial note in the October issue noted that
Harper's Bazar began its London edition with that issue. It appeared
that the London edition was not a separate edition but the American
edition with more English and French fashion news and advertisers.
Maybe the change was to bring the spelling into line with common
British usage.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the prefered spelling of
bazar had become bazaar by the late 19th century.
I'm must leave off from this project now, since I've spent many hours
and driven more than 160 miles to the various libraries and still
have no answer and therefore no pay.
I wish you luck.
If you ever do find the answer, please come back and share it with us.
Nellie Bly
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Request for Question Clarification by
nellie_bly-ga
on
16 Nov 2002 19:47 PST
While it did not result in a specific answer to your question, would
you be willing to except the results of my research as an "answer" to
compensate for the time and travel expenses expended on your behalf?
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