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Williamsport: The Grit Photograph Collection

Williamsport: The Grit Photograph Collection

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Publication Date: May 5th, 2004
Publisher:
Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
ISBN:
9781531620295
Pages:
130
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Description

For more than one hundred years, the Grit was small-town America's favorite family newspaper and a Sunday morning staple. Dietrick Lamade, a German immigrant and self-made man, founded the Grit and ushered it through early adversity and uncertainty, eventually initiating innovations such as direct mail and nationwide newsboy delivery, transforming the paper into a national institution. The Grit was one of the first newspapers in America to feature color photographs and fictional supplements. Williamsport: The Grit Photograph Collection documents momentous events from a turn-of-the-century city on the rise, through the end of the lumber boom, the world wars, and the great Depression, to modern times.