Marjorie Paxson
- Dorothy Jurney, Eleni Epstein, Gloria Biggs, Marjorie Paxson, National Women and Media Collection, Roberta Applegate
Happy Archive Month!
October is National Archive Month. I love archives – which we visit as often as we can. Our favorite is the National Women & Media Collection in Missouri. I am writing an article about my discoveries there for the 25th anniversary of the Collection. The NWMC was started by women’s page editor turned publisher Marjorie Paxson. Other women’s page journalists whose papers are at the NWMC include Marie Anderson, Roberta Applegate, Gloria Biggs, Eleni Epstein and Dorothy Jurney. And, most helpful of all are the papers of the Penney-Missouri Awards – the top recognition for women’s pages in the 1960s.
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Great Marjorie Paxson Image
The Missouri Historical Society recently posted this great image of women’s page editor Marjorie Paxson to its Facebook wall. I had never seen an image of Marjorie in her younger years.
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Big Finds in the Marjorie Paxson Papers
I just finished going through the wonderful package of papers that arrived from the National Women & Media Collection. The copies are from the newly indexed Marjorie Paxson papers. Marjorie, who helped established the NWMC, was a longtime women’s page editor before becoming a newspaper publisher. That is a drawing of her above and a card signed by her friends and colleagues at the Miami Herald as she was leaving for the St. Petersburg Times. There are also great photos of her going away party – including one image of Marj with women’s page pioneer Marie Anderson. In some ways it was bittersweet to see the images. Marjorie looks so…
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New Research Finds
I have completed two orders for new material about women’s page journalism and food journalism. From the Fales Library at NYU, I ordered a transcript of an interview between Associated Press food editor Cecily Brownstone and the great food writer Laura Shapiro. I am presenting a paper about Cecily at the National Communication Association Convention this fall. From the National Women and Media Collection, I placed a large order of copies from the papers of women’s page editor and later publisher Marjorie Paxson. It includes references to Paul Myhre, Edee Green and Jim Bellows. There was also a folder devoted to a food editors meeting.
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Marjorie Paxson’s Papers Indexed
I was so happy to see that the papers of Marjorie Paxson had been inventoried. Here is a link to the finding guide. (I was thrilled to see my name on the list!) Marjorie was a progressive and influential women’s page editor at several newspapers before becoming a publisher in the Gannett newspaper chain. She established the National Women and Media Collection which includes the papers of several women’s page editors. The Collection is now housed at the State Historical Society of Missouri.
- Dorothy Jurney, Florida Women's Pages, Jeanne Voltz, jounalism history, Marie Anderson, Marjorie Paxson, Miami Herald, Roberta Applegate
Saving the Miami Herald Building
Yesterday, the Miami Herald featured this story about a preservation group’s fight to save the Miami Herald Building. Marie Anderson was the women’s page editor of the Herald when the building opened in 1963. The Miami Herald had one of the top women’s page sections in the country in the 1950s and 1960s. Journalists who wrote for the section at the time included: Roberta Applegate, Dorothy Jurney, Marjorie Paxson and Jeanne Voltz.
