Oversize - Photographs - Sun-Times and Daily News building exterior, Chicago River and paper barge in foreground, undated
Content Description
Photographs, brochures, clippings, invitations, correspondence, and realia documenting the career of Richard G. (Dick) Suthers, who was a pressman in the production department of the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Sun-Times from 1945 to 1985. Realia includes special rulers and slide rules for measuring type and columns, as well as a paper pressman's hat. Collection also includes the rotogravure plate of the front page of the Chicago Daily News's last edition, March 4, 1978.
Also included in the papers is a detailed notebook containing tables, mathematical equations, and diagrams kept by Suthers to estimate amount of paper needed for runs of newspapers, as well as other calculations.
Dates
- Creation: undated
Creator
- From the Collection: Suthers, Richard G. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The Richard G. Suthers papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Repository Details
Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository
60 West Walton Street
Chicago Illinois 60610 United States
312-255-3512
reference@newberry.org