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Dave Hughes

November 26, 2022, 09:27:15 AM
I recently came across this blog article Die Zeitung zu ihrer Anfangszeit (in German) about the history of the German-language Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger - Wikipedia

The Google translation left a lot to be desired, but there were some great early photographs, including this 1902 picture of a Linotype (presumably a Model 1) and its operator:



And this 1929 photograph of the printing press:


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