journalism

On the Great Northern Railway. Photo by Brown Photo Co., St. Paul, Minnesota.

Wystan, Do you know what the function of a press car was? This is the engraving section. It looks like the produced the master sheets for printing. Was a whole newspaper production facility in different cars? And why would it need be on a train? Is this the equivalent of the mobile truck with the satellite dish on top? :-)

Is that Wilson front row far right?

This picture is just bullly.... :-) [http://www.flickr.com/photos/toots] Golly, that looks like Wilson.

The sticker and scratched in mirror view it is read 5/13/15 (May 13, 1915)

Theodore Roosevelt was sued for libel by a political enemy, and the trial was held between 4-25-15 and 5-23-15 in Syracuse, New York. Roosevelt won the case. The trial was heavily covered by the press, so I suppose this is Teddy and the press boys assigned to his trial, outside the courthouse. select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50E1FF73F5D1A72...

The reporter second from left in the back row appears to be James J. Montague who covered the trial for anti-Roosevelt Hearst newspapers. A Roosevelt biographer wrote: ""At the Barnes-Roosevelt libel trial in Syracuse I came across James J. Montague, a hardened reporter on a highly anti-Roosevelt newspaper, walking up and down and cursing. I asked him what moved him to these expletives. 'Roosevelt, damn him,' said Montague; 'I can't keep hating him if I get anywhere within twenty feet of him, and I'm always accidentally doing it. He's spoiling my story." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Montague

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