Williamsport: The Grit Photograph Collection (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781531620295)

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.

Author: Robin Van Auken, Louis E. Hunsinger
ISBN-10: 1531620299
ISBN-13: 9781531620295
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
Language: English
Published: 05/05/2004
Pages: 130
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.38d