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| Western Newspaper Union, 1911 |
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| Oct. 10th 1911 |
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Occupational photographs are getting very hard to find.
This view features a gentleman, sitting in his office at his roll top desk with a spittoon on the floor at his feet. There is an incredible Remington Typewriter, No. 7 sitting on a smaller desk. On the walls are several calendars, one a 1911 advertisement for the Western Newspaper Union.
The Western Newspaper Union was founded in 1872 and was one of the first syndicates to distribute non-news features and fiction. This syndicate was important to the rise of national columnists and literary fiction from authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain and Jack London.
Now, with that little bit of history, I still do not know who the man is in the photograph, where it was taken or his occupation, although he could be a newspaper editor or reporter.
On the reverse, written in pencil on the upper left corner, is the date Oct. 10th 1911. The mount has been very sloppily trimmed to fit a 7"x9" frame so it is possible that there was, at one time, a name or location written above this date, but the photograph is in very good condition. I do have another exact copy of this photograph and the mount has not been trimmed, but the photograph is lifting from the mount at the upper right corner and there is no writing on the back.
The photograph with the trimmed mount is $20.00
The photograph with the untrimmed mount and a lifted corner is $15.00
USPS First Class postage, including a delivery confirmation, is $4.00
As always, postage will be discounted with multiple purchases.
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