Wednesday, September 21, 2005
08:19 PM
that;s what modern newsies need...

Beautiful old newspapers: "Mark Frauenfelder:
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!'

Link (via Paul Boutin)"

(Via Boing Boing.)