The War of the Nations:
Portfolio in Rotogravure Etchings
on CD-ROM
1918
Published by the New York Times
This volume contains the entire book including 1,398 rotogravure images
on 500 pages with brief descriptive captions, broad organizational headings,
and a table of contents; 32 maps that describe military engagements throughout
the war; and a 3-page appendix that provides a chronology, statistics, treaty
excerpts, and highlights of wartime events.
The War of the Nations: Portfolio in Rotogravure
Etchings, a volume published by the New York Times shortly
after the armistice that compiled selected images from their “Mid-Week
Pictorial” supplements of 1914-19; Sunday rotogravure sections from
the New York Times for 1914-19; and Sunday rotogravure sections from the
New York Tribune for 1916-19.
The images in this book track American sentiment about the war in Europe,
week by week, before and after the United States became involved.
The images are very high resoultion and show
incredible detail.
During the World War I era (1914-18), leading newspapers took advantage
of a new printing process that dramatically altered their ability to reproduce
images. Rotogravure printing, which produced richly detailed, high quality
illustrations—even on inexpensive newsprint paper—was used to create
vivid new pictorial sections. Publishers that could afford to invest in the
new technology saw sharp increases both in readership and advertising
revenue.
During World War I (1914-18) rotogravure sections captured the details
and intensity of the fighting, introduced technological innovations to a
curious and interested American public, and documented the work and play
of the home front. These pictorials were important tools for promoting U.S.
propaganda and influenced how readers viewed world events. Images from the
battlefields and dramatic coverage of casualties from the 1915 sinking of
the Lusitania by a German U-boat contributed to the U.S. decision to join
the war. |
