Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures

Pictorial Highlights

The variety of content and quality of printing in the pictorial sections are best represented by the collections themselves.  Each issue contains fine arts and theater, sports and war, advertisements and fashions, the exotic and the mundane, school and home life, with contrasting as well as complementary illustrations deliberately placed side by side.

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Front and back view of an outfitted soldier
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon [Detail] "Equipment and Training of the Great Army That America Hastily Created." War of the Nations, 193.
An American aviator from World War I
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon [Detail] "Daring Aviators on Both Sides Whose Names are Famous Throughout the World for Their Contempt of Death." War of the Nations, 296-97.
Woman using an electric stove
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon [Detail] "Electricity: the Modern Aladdin's Lamp of Today's Housewife."  Advertisement.  New York Tribune, September 21, 1919, 6E.
Theodore Roosevelt with a group of people gathered around a scale
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon [Detail] "Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Personally Weighing…" New York Times, January 27, 1918, [5].
Split view of two American war ships
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon [Detail] "Powerful American Dreadnoughts That Carried the Stars and Stripes in the North Sea Naval Zone."  War of the Nations, 376-77.
Two men in uniform reading newspapers
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon [Detail] "The Better 'Ole." New York Tribune, February 16, 1919, 3.
Interior of a bombed-out church
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon [Detail] "Interior of a Church at Mons, Belgium, After Bombardment."  New York Times, October 4, 1914, [1].
Detail of Millet's painting
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon  [Detail] "The Gleaners by Jean Francois Millet." New York Tribune, July 13, 1919, 3.

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