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Great Guns!
This wartime New York Tribune rotogravure features a spread on the manufacture of artillery at Bethlehem Steel in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. From April 1917 to the end of the war, Bethlehem produced more than sixty-five percent of the total number of finished artillery pieces manufactured by all of the allied nations. In order to meet the demand, Bethlehem Steel invested more than $1 million to expand their plant. During the war, leading newspapers took advantage of rotogravure printing, which produced richly detailed, high quality illustrations -- even on inexpensive newsprint paper -- to create vivid new pictorial sections for their readers. |