Preparing and printing the New York Times, 1942

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An incoming dispatch from the Associated Press.

Copy boys mimeograph the dispatches from the telegraphs and pass them through a slot to the newsroom, where they are sorted and distributed to the various desks.

Dispatches have to be mimeographed so fast to meet the deadline that many copies fly out of the machine onto the floor.

(Left) Copyreaders at the foreign desk in the newsroom. In the foreground, the foreign editor discards a story by

Argentine, Swiss, and Mexican correspondents.

Drama critic Brooks Atkinson pens a review of a new play.

A radio operator listens in to Axis propaganda broadcasts. The paper piled on the floor has been examined to see what has already been covered in the last edition.

(Left) In the radio room, news is sent out twice daily in code by the Times' short wave transmitter and received by ships. (Right) A short wave radio operator receives and records messages from a correspondent in Switzerland.

In the art department, the cartographer consults charts to prepare a map of the war in Europe. This employee was also here for the First World War.

The photo department. The Times syndicates its photographs all over the world, sending some by clipper to Europe daily.

A darkroom technician inspects the dots on the screen of a strip negative before it is transferred to a zinc plate.

An artist retouches a fashion photo for the Sunday edition.

(Left) (Completed mats are checked on board by page, then sent down a chute to the stereotype room. (Right) As make-up of each page is completed, time is marked on a board.

A linotype operator types out a story in the composing room. The linotype is used to cast metal blocks of type which will then be laid out into a page.

Notices on style changes are posted in the composing room.

(Left) A mat is inspected for faults and blemishes. (Right) The proof press turns out proofs for distribution to make-up editors for correction.

In the composing room, the daily index to the news is set partly by hand. This man has been doing it for fifteen years.

Proofs on the wall in the composing room.

(Left) Page one is made up as the deadline approaches. (Right) Type is hammered down on a completed page.

In the reel room, pressmen transport a 1608-pound paper reel to the presses. The reel has enough for about 1300 newspapers.

An Autoplate machine is used to cast curved plates for the printing presses from the completed linotype slugs.

(Left) Page numbers are applied to cast plates for easy identification. (Right) Plates are loaded into the presses.

(Left) Freshly cast and numbered plates. (Right) Plates are loaded into the presses before they start rolling.