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Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Beautiful old newspapers

Slate editor Jack Shafer has a nice essay about the glory days of early 20th century newspapers.

The heavy reliance on illustrations makes the World look old-timey, but, once you accept the conventions of the period, the pictures take on a three-dimensional quality that rivals the finest modern photography and reproduction. There's something fantastically real to me about this Aug. 13, 1911, World magazine cover illustration of man-meets-beast in "The Submarine's Encounter—Whales!"

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