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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Soldier's picture superimposed over a map of the U.S.
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon [Detail] "War of the Races–Men in the Great Conflict and Where They Came From." War of the Nations, 136-37.
Woman working in an armament factory
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon [Detail] "English Woman of High Social Rank Who Has Volunteered to Take a Man’s Place in Making Shells for the Army." New York Times August 15, 1915, [1].
Three women working with military equipment
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon [Detail] "Youth and Old Age Combine Forces to Aid France in Her Need."  New York Times June 11, 1916, [1].
A pilot in the cockpit
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon [Detail] "War in the Air Over the Battling Fronts in France." War of the Nations, 292.
Long view of a suffrage parade in New York City
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon [Detail] "The Women’s Suffrage Parade." New York Times, October 10, 1915, [1].
Tank-like machine
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon [Detail] "Methods Used by Germans to Trap or Destroy Tanks."  War of the Nations, 170.
Egyptian soldiers riding camels
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon [Detail] "Egyptian Camel Corps Now Called Upon to Aid Repelling the Turkish Invasion of British territory of Africa."  New York Times, November 12, 1914, p. [2].
Portrait of Eva Francis
descriptive record icon enlarge image icon [Detail] "The Girl of To-Day. Miss Eva Francis."  New York Times, December 7, 1913, [6].

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