The New International Encyclopedia was an American encyclopedia first published in 1902 by Dodd, Mead and Company

Dodd, Mead and Company

Dodd, Mead and Company was one of the pioneer publishing houses of the United States, based in New York City. Under several names, the firm operated from 1839 until 1990. Its history properly began in 1870, with the retirement of its founder, Moses Woodruff Dodd. Control passed to his son Frank...

. It descended from the International Cyclopaedia (1884) and was updated in 1906, 1914 and 1926.

History

The New International Encyclopedia was the successor to the International Cyclopaedia (1884).

Initially, the International Cyclopaedia was largely a reprint of Alden's Library of Universal Knowledge, which was a reprint of the British Chambers's Encyclopaedia

Chambers's Encyclopaedia

Chambers's Encyclopaedia was founded in 1860 by W. & R. Chambers. It has no relationship with the Chambers' Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences of Ephraim Chambers in the 18th century, except that the latter shared the same name as the publisher of this.-History:The first...

 with American additions (including many biographical entries for Americans).

The International Cyclopaedia was much improved by editors Harry Thurston Peck

Harry Thurston Peck

Harry Thurston Peck was an American classical scholar, author, editor, and critic.-Biography:Peck was born in Stamford, Conn. He was educated in private schools and at Columbia College, graduating in 1881, where his literary gifts attracted wide attention...

 and Selim Peabody

Selim Peabody

Selim Hobart Peabody was an American educator, born at Rockingham, Vermont He graduated at the University of Vermont in 1852, during the following years held professorships of mathematics, physics, and engineering at several colleges, and from 1880 to 1891 was president of the University of Illinois...

. The title was changed to New International Encyclopedia in 1902, with editors Harry Thurston Peck, Daniel Coit Gilman

Daniel Coit Gilman

Daniel Coit Gilman was an American educator and academician, who was instrumental in founding the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College, and who subsequently served as one of the earliest presidents of the University of California, the first president of Johns Hopkins University, and as...

, and Frank Moore Colby

Frank Moore Colby

Frank Moore Colby was an American educator and writer, born in Washington, D. C.. He graduated from Columbia University in 1888, was acting professor of history at Amherst College in 1890-91, lecturer on history at Columbia and instructor in history and economics at Barnard College from 1891 to...

.

In 1906 the New International Encyclopedia was expanded from 17 volumes to 20. The 2nd edition appeared in 1914 in 24 volumes, set up from new type and thoroughly revised. It was very strong in biography.

The 1926 material was printed in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...

 by The University Press

Yale University Press

Yale University Press is a book publisher founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day. It became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but remains financially and operationally autonomous....

. Boston Bookbinding Company of Cambridge produced the covers. Thirteen books enclosing twenty-three volumes comprise the encyclopedia, which includes a supplement after Volume 23. Each book contains about 1600 pages.

A great deal of biographic material is recorded in the New International Encyclopedia. An early description of Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...

 and his activities from 1920 to 1924 is in the supplement to the 1926 edition. Many of the names used to describe the scientific identities of plants and animals are now obsolete.

Numerous colorful maps which display the nations, states, colonies, and protectorates which existed early in the twentieth century are included. The maps are valuable for their depictions of national and colonial borders in Europe, Asia, and Africa at the time of World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

. Drawings, illustrations, and photographs are plentiful.

Contributors and office editors

More than 500 men, and some women, submitted and composed the information contained in the New International Encyclopedia.

Editors of the First Edition

• Daniel Coit Gilman, LL.D., President of Johns Hopkins University (1876–1901), President of Carnegie Institution.
• Harry Thurston Peck, Ph.D., L.H.D.
• Frank Moore Colby, M. A., formerly Professor in New York University
  New York University
  New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
  
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Editors of the Second Edition

• Frank Moore Colby, M. A.
• Talcott Williams
  Talcott Williams
  Talcott Williams, , was an American journalist and educator, born at Abeih, Turkey, the son of Congregational missionaries. He graduated from Amherst in 1873. Afterwards. he was employed at the New York World, and as a correspondent for the New York Sun and the San Francisco Chronicle...
  
  , LL.D., L.H.D., Litt. D. Director of the School of Journalism, Columbia University
  Columbia University
  Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
  
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External links

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1	IA 1	WS 1	1905	A - Aristogoras
2	IA 2	WS 2	1905	Aristarchus - Bessières
3	IA 3	WS 3	1905	Bessus - Cairns
4	IA 4	WS 4	1905	Cairo - Classification of Ships
5	IA 5	WS 5	1905	Classis - Da Vinci
6	IA 6	WS 6	1905	Davioud - Ellery
7	IA 7	WS 7	1905	Ellesmere - Fontanel
8	IA 8	WS 8	1905	Fontanes - Goethe
9	IA 9	WS 9	1905	Goethite - Heritable Jurisdictions
10	IA 10	WS 10	1905	Herjulfson - Ishpeming
11	IA 11	WS 11	1905	Ishtar - Latitudinarians
12	IA 12	WS 12	1905	Latium - Manna
13	IA 13	WS 13	1905	Manna-Croup - Morganitic Marriage
14	IA 14	WS 14	1905	Morgan City - Omul
15	IA 15	WS 15	1905	Ona - Pickering
16	IA 16	WS 16	1905	Pickersgill - Reid
17	IA 17	WS 17	1905	Reifferscheid - Servian Wall
18	IA 18	WS 18	1905	Service-berry - Tagus
19	IA 19	WS 19	1905	Taharka - Vampire
20	IA 20	WS 20	1905	Van - Zyrians

New International Encyclopedia (incomplete)

Volume	Edition	Year	copyright last	From	To
Volume 3	2nd	1928	[1924]	Bazaine	Brock
Volume 4	2nd	1928	[1924]	Brockelmann	Chaeremon
Volume 5	2nd	1914
Volume 6	2nd	1928		Consul	Didymograptus
Volume 8	2nd		[1922]	Enteritis	Foraker
Volume 10	2nd	1928	[1922]	Glacial	Havre de Grace
Volume 12	2nd	1915
Volume 13	2nd	1915	[1915]	Jovanovich	Leprohon
Volume 17	2nd	1916
Volume 20	2nd	1916	[1916]	Riggs	Shilluck
Volume 21	2nd	1916
volume 22	2nd	1916
Volume 24	Sup	1930	1930	A.	Ly.
Volume 25	Sup	1930	[1930]	Municipal	Zweig