In a message dated 5/10/2009 2:00:25 AM Central Daylight Time, 
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> Subject: Re: another who done it
> 
> Doncha love those old newspapers, the ones with REAL news in them?  I have
> boxes of them that I am slowly going through and transcribing items of
> local interest.  Ruth


Just before 911 I was working the old Pan Am building (Met Life ) on 44th 
and vanderbuilt hard up against Grand Central . I used to take a black and 
tan over at Omalleys then amble over to the New York Puplic library on days 
when we would get rained out . There I would take the oppurtuinity to puruse 
the early maps of the Mississippi and see if I could spot place names like 
Pidgeons roost  and ten scalps   on colonial maps  that were still relevent 
today .
 I also went to find if the library had copies of some of the great tabloid 
papers from my Grandfathers time as he was an aviation reporter  from that 
era . I met with the deputy director of archives and he told me that for 
years every library in the country kept and stored news papers until the advent 
of micro film ;   then began an ambitious campaign to copy the paper or at 
least the headlines and throw out the original (to save library space ) 
; when asked if he had specific copies of say the Sun or the spectator 
American  or pre war tibunes he said "some ;but they were 0n microfilm and had 
to be restored  "

So I have a high school student scaning mine ; a collection of  two 
thousand  new York tabloids (no NYT and few Daily news )) from about 1930- 1954 
then sealed in a closet fr 40 years that were discovered along with $200,000 in 
confederate bonds and an arsenal of captured Jappanese swords and rifles 
taken in ww 2 plus a modest  collection of  French turn of the century post 
cards that made my aunt blush .
My advise is ; is to copy them soon as in another 25 years they woun't be 
able to be handled . It was the paper they used ; a 1907 paper holds up well 
a 1890's won't  neither will a 1920's .I had to make a decision to use them 
or loose them ;
One thing that I noticed was prior to ww2 only papers in the big cities 
used multiple photographs and New York used the most My fovorite was the use of 
pen and ink artists in sports fights and certain political or world news 
catoons .

happy reading    Py


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