The Century Magazine

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The Century Magazine was first published in the United States in 1881 by The Century Company of New York City as a successor to Scribner's Monthly Magazine. It ceased publication in 1930.

Noted critic and editor Frank Crowninshield briefly served as its art editor.

Pulp magazine author Ellis Parker Butler contributed thirty stories, articles and poems to the Century between 1896 and 1913, including My Cyclone-proof House that appeared in the November 1896 issue. This short story was Butler's first published piece in a major magazine. Butler's works were illustrated by such famous artists as Jay Hambidge, May Wilson Preston, Florence Scovel Shinn, Frederic Dorr Steele, and Frederic R. Gruger.

The Century published a full-color portrait of Butler (with his wife Ada and daughter Elsie) in the December 1909 issue. The portrait was drawn by family friend Ernest L. Blumenschein.