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<p>[QUOTE="komokwa, post: 1858736, member: 301"]in about 1900,</p><p>Doubleday and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Hines_Page" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Hines_Page" rel="nofollow">Walter Hines Page</a> formed <b>Doubleday, Page & Company</b>.</p><p><br /></p><p>The racist but best-selling novels of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dixon_Jr." target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dixon_Jr." rel="nofollow">Thomas Dixon Jr.</a> (<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leopard%27s_Spots" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leopard%27s_Spots" rel="nofollow">The Leopard's Spots</a></i>, 1902; <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clansman" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clansman" rel="nofollow">The Clansman</a></i>, 1905) "changed a struggling publishing venture into the empire that Doubleday was to become". At the same time, Doubleday helped Dixon launch his writing career. Page and Dixon were both from North Carolina and had known each other in Raleigh.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubleday_%28publisher%29#cite_note-2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubleday_%28publisher%29#cite_note-2" rel="nofollow">[2]</a></p><p><br /></p><p>In 1910, Doubleday, Page & Co. moved its operations, which included a train station, to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_City,_New_York" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_City,_New_York" rel="nofollow">Garden City</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubleday_%28publisher%29#cite_note-newportvintagebooks-3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubleday_%28publisher%29#cite_note-newportvintagebooks-3" rel="nofollow">[3]</a> The company purchased much of the land on the east side of Franklin Avenue, and estate homes were built for many of its executives on Fourth Street. Co-founder and Garden City resident Walter Hines Page was named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_the_United_Kingdom" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_the_United_Kingdom" rel="nofollow">Ambassador to Great Britain</a> in 1916. In 1922 the company founded its juvenile department, the second in the nation, with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Massee" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Massee" rel="nofollow">May Massee</a> as head.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubleday_%28publisher%29#cite_note-:0-4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubleday_%28publisher%29#cite_note-:0-4" rel="nofollow">[4]</a> The founder's son <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Doubleday" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Doubleday" rel="nofollow">Nelson Doubleday</a> joined the firm in the same year.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1927, Doubleday, Page merged with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._Doran_Company" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._Doran_Company" rel="nofollow">George H. Doran Company</a>, creating <b>Doubleday, Doran</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>I CAN'T CONFIRM THIS !!! </b></p><p><b>( seeing Doubleday, Doran..... publish in 1923...) </b></p><p><b></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="komokwa, post: 1858736, member: 301"]in about 1900, Doubleday and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Hines_Page']Walter Hines Page[/URL] formed [B]Doubleday, Page & Company[/B]. The racist but best-selling novels of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dixon_Jr.']Thomas Dixon Jr.[/URL] ([I][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leopard%27s_Spots']The Leopard's Spots[/URL][/I], 1902; [I][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clansman']The Clansman[/URL][/I], 1905) "changed a struggling publishing venture into the empire that Doubleday was to become". At the same time, Doubleday helped Dixon launch his writing career. Page and Dixon were both from North Carolina and had known each other in Raleigh.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubleday_%28publisher%29#cite_note-2'][2][/URL] In 1910, Doubleday, Page & Co. moved its operations, which included a train station, to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_City,_New_York']Garden City[/URL].[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubleday_%28publisher%29#cite_note-newportvintagebooks-3'][3][/URL] The company purchased much of the land on the east side of Franklin Avenue, and estate homes were built for many of its executives on Fourth Street. Co-founder and Garden City resident Walter Hines Page was named [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_the_United_Kingdom']Ambassador to Great Britain[/URL] in 1916. In 1922 the company founded its juvenile department, the second in the nation, with [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Massee']May Massee[/URL] as head.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubleday_%28publisher%29#cite_note-:0-4'][4][/URL] The founder's son [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Doubleday']Nelson Doubleday[/URL] joined the firm in the same year. In 1927, Doubleday, Page merged with the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._Doran_Company']George H. Doran Company[/URL], creating [B]Doubleday, Doran I CAN'T CONFIRM THIS !!! ( seeing Doubleday, Doran..... publish in 1923...) [/B][/QUOTE]
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