1882 Broadsheet Tribute to America's Great Newspapermen

Description

1882 Broadsheet Tribute to America's Great Newspapermen
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Title:
Representative Journals and Journalists of America.
Description:
This rare broadsheet is Gustov H. Buek's tribute to America's great newspaper men. Published by Root and Tinker in 1882, this broadside celebrates 12 of America's greatest newspaper editors and owners superimposed upon front page facimies of their newspaper. At center, a portrait of Thurlow Weed, the retired editor of the
Rochester Telegraph
and the Albany Evening Journal, appears in the center of the print with no representative facsimile. The newspapermen represented include
George W. Childes of the
Public Ledger
, Philadelphia
Whitelaw Reid of the
New York Tribune
Henry Watterson of the
Louisville Courier-Journal
E. B. Haskell of the
Boston Herald
Charles A. Dana of the
New York Sun
Murat Halstead of the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Joseph Medill of the
Chicago Tribune
James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald
Victor Fremont Lawson of the
Chicago Daily News
Oswald Ottendorfer of the
New Yorker Staats-Zeitung
Joseph Roswell Hawley of the
Hartford Courant
Royal M. Pulsifer of the
Boston Herald
Thurlow Weed of the
Albany Evening Journal
, New York (center)
George Jones of the
New York Times
is conspicuously absent, but the firm did release an updated version of this broadsheet in 1885, in which Jones is included. When Root and Tinker initially issued this, in 1883, Wilbur F. Storey of the
Chicago Times
appeared in place of the current example's Victor F. Lawson. Some have associated this with the publication of a second edition of the broadsheet to promote the Travelers Insurance Company although there is no clear association with that organization present here.
This broadsheet is quite rare. In addition to the example exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum in 2016, we are aware of only two other examples at the Library of Congress and the Connecticut State Library.
Size:
Printed area measures 19.5 inches high by 22 inches wide.
Condition:
Good. Verso reinforcement at top and bottom border. Several minor repaired tears.
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