Category: Newspaper

Key West Citizen, c1960

Quite an early-looking punched tape operated linecaster.
Quite an early-looking punched tape operated linecaster.

The photographs on these pages are taken from the Monroe County Library Collection.

Chicago & Denver, c1900

The press, and some workers, at the Chicago Daily News. Taken by a Chicago Daily News photographer in 1903.
The press, and some workers, at the Chicago Daily News. Taken by a Chicago Daily News photographer in 1903.

The photographs on these pages are reproduced courtesy of the United States Library of Congress.

Elektron Back Splash

George Finn
George Finn attends to a Linotype Elektron back splash.

Many thanks to George Finn, Metal Type stalwart and Forum moderator for sending this picture of himself in.

George says: “I was going through some old family photos and ran across this one of me working on an Elektron Linotype. Read the Full Article . . .

New York Herald, c1910

New York Herald
Linotype operators with early single-magazine models.

The photographs on this page were taken from the collection held by the United States Library of Congress.

The New York Herald was first published by James Gordon Bennett Sr. during the American Civil War. It supported the Democratic Party. The paper financed Henry Morton Stanley’s expeditions into Africa to find David Livingstone. Read the Full Article . . .

New York Times, 1942

New York Times
Linotype operators at the New York Times, photographed during the Second World War in September 1942. Nice comfortable-looking (and numbered!) operators’ chairs.

The photographs on this page were taken from the collection held by the United States Library of Congress.

News of the World Foundry, 1986

Steroplate
Barry Adams and Brian Inwood operate a Linotype and Machinery auto at the News of the World.

Thanks to Barry Adams for sending in these pictures of the last-ever hot-metal production run of the News of the World – the UK’s biggest circulation Sunday newspaper.

In Barry’s own words: “There was a crew of 4 for the Auto and a further 3 for the Auto shaver. Read the Full Article . . .

Yorkshire Evening Press, 1954

Stonehands
Featured on the photograph, as Ian recalls: Syd Wynn, nearest, Me (Ian Cottom), Sam Doherty (Napper), Wilf Benson, Armstrong, Bob Anley and I think Don Wilkinson (stone sub-editor).

There are six pages of Yorkshire Evening Press photos on Metal Type. Check the “Related Pages” menu to see the rest.

Many thanks to an ex-colleague, Ian Cottom, for sending in a scan of the front cover of “The Newsman” from October 1954. Read the Full Article . . .

Willimantic Daily Chronicle, 1961

Willimantic Daily Chronicle
The newspaper was located in this building at 24-26 Church Street, Willimantic, Connecticut from 1877 until 1972. The building was demolished in 1976 after the newspaper had moved to the outskirts of town. The old location is now the Arthur W. Crosbie [memorial municipal] parking lot. My father, who died shortly before the parking lot was build, would have chuckled if he’d have known a parking lot was named after him.

Vin Crosbie allowed these excellent photographs to be used on Metal Type.

Vin said: “These photographs detail the production of a 10,000-circulation daily newspaper in Connecticut on Friday, March 17, 1961. I found these slides among those of my father, the paper’s general manager. The Chronicle has been owned by my family since 1877. I’m the fifth generation and the sixth is already working there. Read the Full Article . . .

Daily Mirror, UK

Daily Mirror
FROM L-R: Bert Heinman, Tom Bailey (who sent in the photograph), Charlie King and Norman Barnes overseeing the last wet dab of the front and back pages of The Mirror on the night of his retirement as “The Printer” in the early 1970s

Tom Bailey sent in this picture of Norman Barnes retiring from his job as “The Printer”, early 1970s.

Tom Bailey said: “To my mind the setting of type was an art form and having spent many hours setting five point type, visually letter-spacing said type for advertisements to be published in newspapers; actually cutting up cigarette papers and bus tickets to use in the spacing. Remember I was not the only one, I had to learn from somebody. Read the Full Article . . .