Peter F. Collier (18491909) and Robert J. Collier (18761918) were the men behind publishing giant Peter F. Collier Son, and their organization ranked among America's most prestigious firms. Collier's Weekly, which appeared in various forms from 1888 through 1957, was at the forefront of new publishing technologies, such as the use of halftone images, and was noted for its fiction and investiga…