Andrew Bradford

Andrew Bradford (1686 – November 24, 1742) was an early American printer in colonial Philadelphia. He published the first newspaper in Philadelphia, The American Weekly Mercury, beginning in 1719, as well as the first magazine in America in 1741.[1][2]

American Weekly Mercury, 1719[3]
  1. ^ Craig, Raymond A. (2010). "Andrew Bradford". American National Biography. Oxford University Press / American National Biography.
  2. ^ Mott, Frank Luther (1970). A History of American Magazines (Nachdr. ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Univ. Press. p. 71. ISBN 9780674395503.
  3. ^ Steven J. Shaw. Colonial Newspaper Advertising: A Step toward Freedom of the Press. The Business History Review, Vol. 33, No. 3 (Autumn, 1959), pp. 409-420

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