Founding Francis Scott Street and
Francis Shubael Smith began their publishing partnership in 1855 when they took over a broken-down fiction magazine. 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. 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), 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. Ormond Smith remained company president until his death in 1933. 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 million in 1959. 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
TSNs 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==