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[Watching the Herald presses, Herald Building, New York, N.Y.] – Historic Photograph Print

[Watching the Herald presses, Herald Building, New York, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Watching the Herald presses, Herald Building, New York, N.Y.], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Passersby crowd the sidewalk to look in at the working presses of the New York Herald, a sight that drew onlookers to the paper's Herald Square building in the early 1900s. Newspapers of this period ran their presses in full view of the street, and the spectacle of rolling type and fast-moving paper made the building a stop for pedestrians as well as readers. The Herald was then one of the city's leading dailies, and the scene shows how closely the business of printing the news was tied to daily life on Broadway. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this glass-plate negative, documented many American cities and streetscapes in this period.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. H 483" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036475. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsNewspaper industry.United States--New York (State)--New York.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 800 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67951

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