^Lot 879 The Curtis Publishing Company,

Philadelphia, PA. 1930-50's. Specimen. 100 shs, common stock, brown. Benjamin Franklin vignette. The Curtis Publishing Company was the Philadelphia-based company that published the Ladies' Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post, as well as several other magazines and newspapers. The company was formed in 1890 by its original publisher Cyrus Curtis. Curtis purchased The Saturday Evening Post for $1,000 in 1897. The company established The Ladies' Home Journal in 1883. Norman Rockwell's artwork was prominently featured on covers of the Saturday Evening Post. SBNC. XF.