Chicago Tribune : Tribune tour no. 2 : printing the world's greatest newspaper

Article is part of a series offering photographic tours of the Tribune Tower and newspaper making process. This edition features printing and includes a diagram showing how the Tribune is printed and prepared for distribution. Also includes the following photographs: the copy writer at a desk sorting the news copy before giving it to typesetters, a linotype operator putting news into type, proof readers checking stories for typographical errors, makeup editors supervising the placing of type in page forms, a stereotyper preparing mats from type forms, the Tribune composing room as it appeared in 1897, the Tribune's "mammoth sextuple press" in 1897, unloading paper for the Tribune during the early days of the twentieth century, a semi-cylindrical metal plate ready for the press, a pressman locking a plate on a press cylinder alongside similar plates, and finished papers being wrapped and bound for circulation department trucks waiting at the end of a conveyor belt.

Publication date: 1938-11-27

Size: 49 x 72 cm

Publisher: Tribune Company

Print type: grayscale

Language:

• English

Geography:

• Chicago (Ill.)

Subject(s):

• Chicago Tribune (Firm)--Facilities--Illinois--Chicago--1930-1940
• Chicago Tribune (Firm)--People--Illinois--Chicago--1930-1940
• Newspaper industry--Illinois--Chicago--1930-1940

Genre(s):

• Advertisements
• Illustrations
• Photographs
• Publicity photographs
• Publishers' advertisements

Type(s):

• still image
• text

Copyright(s):

• These materials are either in the public domain, according to U.S. copyright law, or permission has been obtained from rights owners. The digital version and supplementary materials are available for all educational uses worldwide.

Is part of:

• The Janet A. Ginsburg Chicago Tribune Image Collection
• The Janet A. Ginsburg Chicago Tribune Advertisement Collection

Source(s):

• Chicago Sunday Tribune (November 27, 1938), p. 8
• Chicago Sunday Tribune (November 27, 1938), p. 9

Format(s):

• application/pdf
• image/jpeg

Creator(s):

• Erer, Cart Gfro

Contributor(s):

• Chicago Tribune (Firm)