The earliest Polish-language humour magazines in North America. Part II: From Bocian to Maczuga
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Polish press in the USA in the 19th century, humour and satire magazines, Stefan Barszczewski (d. 1937), Julian Czupka (1854–1923)Abstract
This article is the second instalment of a study of the Polish humourous and satirical magazines published in the United States in the late 19th century. While the earliest of them that started in the 1880s were ephemera with a lifespan of a few months, their successors from the 1890s (Bocian [The Stork], Djabeł [The Devil], Kropidło [The Sprinkler], Kuryer Świąteczny [The Holiday Courier] and Maczuga [The Cudgel]) managed to stay in the market for much longer. The article, based on archived source material, follows the fortunes of the earliest humour magazines published in Chicago and sketches the profiles of their publishers and editors. This piece of research into a largely forgotten section of the popular press, published abroad and in the home country, has produced a number of insights that could be of use not only within the field of press history.
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