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| Headlines announcing the new color printing process at the Chicago Inter-Ocean newspaper, page 2, June 23, 1892 |
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Color Printing Comes to American Newspapers
June 23, 1892...things were hopping in Chicago. The Democratic Party was in the city nominating a candidate for president down at the Wigwam, and the Chicago Inter-Ocean newspaper was marking the occasion with the first run of papers printed with their new-fangled perfecting color printing press. With that historic issue, the Chicago Inter-Ocean introduced color printing to American newspapers.
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Hi Rich.
ReplyDeleteAmazing to see a picture of the back cover of the first Inter Ocean color supplement. What a historic document!
(I'd seen the front cover elsewhere.)
I'm studying the arrival of color newspaper printing (and color comics) in the US for a PhD at Central Saint Martins college in London, England.
I'd dearly love to see the supplement for myself, or detailed scans of the front and back covers.
I don't know if this could ever be possible.
I could trade for pics of the world's first ever newspaper colour pages (the supplement of the Paris newspaper, Le Petit Journal, from 1890) from my own collection!
BTW, I will be in the US next April, speaking about my research at an event in NYC.
Where are you based?
Best wishes,
Guy Lawley
guy.lawley@btinternet.com
www.legionofandy.com