In a message dated 5/10/2009 2:00:25 AM Central Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes:

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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