Newsprint Collection

Typesetting by hand, Morning Post newspaper, London
A roomful of male compositors in London, typesetting the pages of the Morning Post newspaper by hand

Barges on the River Thames at Woolwich, SE London, one carrying rolls of newsprint. Date: circa 1960s

Florence - Italy - Palazzo Vecchio - Newspaper design
Florence - Italy - Palazzo Vecchio - Newspaper newsprint design Date: 1901

Cartoon, The Censor at Work, WW1
Cartoon, The Censor at Work as he is seen by the Press, with a quotation from The Taming of the Shrew: Heres snip, and nip, and cut, and slish, and slash, Like to a censer in a barbers shop

Delivery of paper for newsprint, Fleet Street, London
Delivery of large rolls of paper for newsprint outside The Sun premises in Fleet Street, London. Date: circa 1970s

Snap Playing Card - Winners, newspaper seller. circa 1900s

Observator Broadsheet
Front cover of The Observator, a political broadsheet newspaper. Date: 1682

WW2 Christmas card, Carrying On! Date: 1939

WWI Poster, Defence of the Realm
Defence of the Realm at the Court at Buckingham Palace, 12th August 1914. A poster in the form of an announcement, confirming the new powers put in place on the outbreak of war. Date: 1914

Cityscape of Birmingham, eng / newsprint, 1847
Cityscape of Birmingham, eng/newsprint, 1847 Date: 1847

Advert for Imperial Chemical Industries; shortage of paper
During World War Two, the growing shortage of paper from overseas meant that the daily papers shrinked in size. Britains public was encouraged to save every scrap of paper

Print room at Lloyds Weekly Newspaper, London
Printing presses operated by workmen churn out copies of Lloyds Weekly Newspaper, one of the first mass market newspapers, with copies then bundled for despatch on a trolley

Internal Roadway at Daily Mirror Printing Works
Part of the Internal Roadway at Daily Mirror Printing Works, facilitating the delivery of newsprint by day and the despatch of completed newspapers at night. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Applegarth printing press
The Applegarth printing press, as used by The Times and by the Illustrated London News

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