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{{short description|New York City publisher (1855–1959)}}
{{Infobox publisher
| name             = Street & Smith Publications, Inc.
| founded          = 1855
| defunct          = 1959
| founder          = [[Francis Scott Street]]<br />[[Francis Shubael Smith]] 
| image            = [[Image:Street & Smith stock room.jpg|250px]]
| caption          = Street & Smith book department in 1906
| headquarters     = 79 Seventh Avenue, [[Manhattan]]
| country          = [[United States]]
| keypeople        = [[Ormond Gerald Smith]]
| parent           =
| successor        = [[Condé Nast Publications]]
| publications     = Paperbacks, Magazines, Comics
| topics           = Sports
| genre            = [[Pulp magazines]]
| imprints         = 
| url              =
}}
[[File:Street & Smith composing room.jpg|thumb|250px|Street & Smith composing room circa 1905-1910]]
'''Street & Smith''' or '''Street & Smith Publications, Inc.''', was a New York City publisher specializing in inexpensive paperbacks and magazines referred to as [[dime novels]] and [[pulp magazine|pulp fiction]].  They also published [[comic books]] and sporting yearbooks. Among their many titles was the [[science fiction]] [[pulp magazine]] ''[[Astounding Stories]]'', acquired from Clayton Magazines in 1933, and retained until 1961. Street & Smith was founded in 1855, and was bought out in 1959. The Street & Smith headquarters were at 79 Seventh Avenue in [[Manhattan]]; they were designed by [[Henry F. Kilburn]].

== History ==

===Founding===
[[File:StreetSmith 07.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Street & Smith bindery in 1910]]
[[Francis Scott Street]] and [[Francis Shubael Smith]] began their publishing partnership in 1855 when they took over a broken-down fiction magazine.<ref name="Time">[https://web.archive.org/web/20110523092424/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,797688,00.html "The Press: New Bottles"], ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' (Monday, August 20, 1945).</ref> They then bought the existing ''[[New York Weekly Dispatch]]'' in 1858. Francis Smith was the company president from 1855 until his 1887 retirement, his son [[Ormond Gerald Smith]] taking over his role.<ref name="NYTimes">"Ormond G. Smith, Publisher, Dead; President of Street & Smith and Founder of Many Popular Magazines..." ''[[New York Times]]'' (April 18, 1933).</ref> Francis Street died in 1883. Francis Smith died on February 1, 1887. The company, which owned a six-story building at 79 Seventh Avenue (just north of [[14th Street (Manhattan)|14th Street]]), became a publisher of inexpensive novels and weekly magazines starting in the 1880s and continuing into 1959. In the early decades of the 20th century, Ormond V. Gould was the company secretary.<ref>"Ormond V. Gould, Publisher's Aide; Retired Secretary of Street & Smith Is Dead at 70," ''[[New York Times]]'' (May 20, 1962).</ref> Ormond Smith remained company president until his death in 1933.<ref name="NYTimes" />

In 1933, Street & Smith bought titles from Clayton Magazines, including ''[[Astounding Stories]]''. In 1934 they put out 35 different magazines, looked after by about a dozen editors, including John Nanovic, Frank Blackwell, [[Daisy Bacon]] and [[F. Orlin Tremaine]]. The company paid one cent a word, which was standard base rate among the major publishing groups, though fringe publishers paid less. In 1937, Street & Smith discontinued a number of their pulp titles, including ''[[Top-Notch Magazine|Top-Notch]]'' and ''Complete Stories'', the start of a long-term shrinking of their pulp line. In 1938, Allen L. Grammer became president. He had spent more than twenty years as an [[ergonomics expert]] for [[Curtis Publishing Company]], and made a small fortune inventing a new printing process. He moved the offices into a skyscraper.<ref name="Time" />

Street & Smith published comic books from 1940 to 1949, their most notable titles being ''[[The Shadow]]'', from their pulp magazine line, ''Super-Magician Comics'', ''[[Supersnipe Comics]]'', ''True Sport Picture Stories'', ''Bill Barnes/Air Ace'' and ''[[Doc Savage (comics)|Doc Savage Comics]]'', also from the pulp magazine line.

===Demise===
Street & Smith stopped publishing all their pulps and comics, with one exception, in 1949, selling off several of their titles to [[Popular Publications]]. Sales had declined with the advent of television.<ref>"Street & Smith Giving Up 'Pulps'; Oldest Publishers of Thriller Magazines Also Scuttling Their Comic Books". ''[[The New York Times]]'' (April 9, 1949).</ref> They continued to publish ''Astounding Science Fiction'' well into the late 1950s.

[[Condé Nast Publications]], a subsidiary of the Newhouse family's [[Advance Publications]], bought the company for more than $3.5&nbsp;million in 1959.<ref>"Advertising: Street Smith Deal? [[Samuel Irving Newhouse, Sr.|S. I. Newhouse]], the newspaper publisher who recently moved into the magazine field, is reportedly negotiating to purchase Street Smith Publications, Inc." ''[[The New York Times]]'' (Aug. 12, 1959).</ref><ref>"Advertising: Street & Smith to Newhouse," ''[[The New York Times]]'' (Aug. 26, 1959).</ref> The company's name continued to be used on the sports pre-season preview magazines until 2007 when Advance division [[American City Business Journals]] acquired the ''[[Sporting News]]'', originally ''The Sporting News'', and merged Street & Smith's annuals into ''TSN''{{'}}s annuals.

In 2017, American City Business Journals revived the Street & Smith name for its sports annuals, published collectively as ''Street & Smith's Yearbooks''. Issues are published at the start of each applicable sport's season, with individual issues subtitled to reflect the season and sport, such as: ''2019 College Football''; ''2020 Fantasy Baseball''; ''2022–23 NBA Preview''.

==Authors==
{{columns-list|colwidth=30em|
*[[Horatio Alger]]
*[[Isaac Asimov]]
*[[John W. Campbell]]
*[[Weldon J. Cobb]]
*[[William Wallace Cook]]
*[[John R. Coryell]]
* [[Robert C. Dennis]]
*[[Lester Dent]]
*[[Theodore Dreiser]]
*[[J. Allan Dunn]]
*[[Paul Ernst (American writer)|Paul Ernst]]
*[[Walter B. Gibson]]
*[[H. Rider Haggard]]
*[[Robert A. Heinlein]]
*[[L. Ron Hubbard]]
*[[Carl Richard Jacobi]] 
*[[Jack London]]
*[[John Hovey Robinson]]
*[[Clifford D. Simak]]
*[[Upton Sinclair]]
}}

==Illustrators==
{{columns-list|colwidth=30em|
*[[Walter M. Baumhofer]]
*[[Earle K. Bergey]]
*[[Edd Cartier]]
*[[Emery Clarke]]
*[[Dean Cornwell]]
*[[Harvey Dunn]]
*[[Frank Kramer (artist)|Frank Kramer]]
*[[J. C. Leyendecker]]
*[[Tom Lovell]]
*[[Modest Stein]]
*[[N.C. Wyeth]]
}}

==Archive==
* [[Syracuse University]] holds:<ref>{{cite web |title=Street & Smith Records {{!}} An inventory of their records at Syracuse University |website=[[Syracuse University#Libraries|Syracuse University Libraries]] Special Collections Research Center |url=https://library.syracuse.edu/digital/guides/s/street_smith.htm |access-date=2023-11-23}}</ref>
** Dime Novels with cover image files
** ''Yellow Kid'' image gallery
** Street & Smith editorial records
* [[Bowling Green State University]] holds:
** Dime novels in PDF format and cover images
* [[Northern Illinois University]] holds:<ref>{{cite web |title=Nickels and Dimes {{!}} From the Collections of Johannsen and LeBlanc |website=[[Northern Illinois University]] Libraries |url=https://dimenovels.lib.niu.edu/ |access-date=2023-11-23}}</ref>
** Dime novels in PDF format readable online through its Nickels and Dimes collection

==See also==
*[[List of Street & Smith publications]]

== Notes ==
{{reflist}}

== References ==
* ''The Writer: A Monthly Magazine for Literary Workers''. January–December 1919 (an excellent description of Street & Smith's rejection policy).
* ''The Fiction Factory; Or, From Pulp Row to Quality Street: The Story of 100 Years of Publishing at Street & Smith'' by Quentin James Reynolds. Random House, 1955 (Covers: Street & Smith, [[Nick Carter (literary character)|Nick Carter]], Max Brand, Buffalo Bill, Frank Merriwell, Gerald Smith, Richard Duffy, Frederick Faust, dime novel, Horatio Alger, Henry Ralston, Ned Buntline, Ormond Smith, Beadle's, Edward Stratemeyer, detective fiction, Laura Jean Libbey, ''Astounding Science Fiction'', Edith Evans).
* {{gcdb publisher|id=104|title=Street and Smith}}
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=j-uUpgr9rn0C&dq=%22street+%26+smith%22&pg=PP7 Carl Jacobi stories for Street & Smith]
* ''The Pulp Jungle'' by Frank Gruber (1967).

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