File ID	f304p2189
Date.Digital	2002-07-24
Date.Original	c. 1909
Description	The 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.
Source	Photograph, laminated, upper left edge folded over under laminate, staining upper right, 7.52" by 9.12"
Subject	Ott, Ralph Chesley 1875-1931
Subject	University City (Mo.)--Pictorial Works
Subject	Goss Printing Press Company (Chicago, Il.)
Subject	Woman's National Daily Building-Interior (University City, Mo.)
Subject	Lewis Publishing Company-Employees (University City, Mo.)
Subject	Lewis Publishing Company (University City, Mo.)
Subject.Keyword	People--Missouri--University City
Subject.Keyword	Printing presses
Title	Traveling crane delivering newsprint to the paper magazine on the Goss printing press in the Woman's National Daily Building