File ID f304p2189
Date.Digital2002-07-24
Date.Originalc. 1909
DescriptionThe Goss printing press built especially for the Lewis Publishing Company to produce "The Woman's National Daily" was reported to be the largest and fastest press in the world. The press could print and fold 5,000 complete newspapers per minute. It stood 28 feet high and held 36 rolls of newsprint which weighed 1,500 pounds each. This photograph shows a roll of newsprint being transported by the traveling crane which was used to lift each roll from storage on the lower level and load it into its place in the paper magazine on the press. One of the murals by artist Ralph Chesley Ott is visible behind the crane, along with the detail of the top of one of the columns. Ott reportedly went to Egypt to study the great temples before he designed the interior of the Woman's National Daily Building.
SourcePhotograph, laminated, upper left edge folded over under laminate, staining upper right, 7.52" by 9.12"
SubjectOtt, Ralph Chesley 1875-1931
SubjectUniversity City (Mo.)--Pictorial Works
SubjectGoss Printing Press Company (Chicago, Il.)
SubjectWoman's National Daily Building-Interior (University City, Mo.)
SubjectLewis Publishing Company-Employees (University City, Mo.)
SubjectLewis Publishing Company (University City, Mo.)
Subject.KeywordPeople--Missouri--University City
Subject.KeywordPrinting presses
TitleTraveling crane delivering newsprint to the paper magazine on the Goss printing press in the Woman's National Daily Building


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