STEREOVIEW NY NEW YORK TIMES NEWS c1860 ALBUMEN PHOTO

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c late 1850-60's STEREOVIEW PHOTOGRAPH Amazing wonderful early image of the New York Times - Surrogates Office Building a predominate landmark in this early busy New York City street scene, with it's horse trolleys & people walking, men can be seen in the image wearing high top hats, dressed in their frock coats.... This view is one of many, please view all my listings for more stereoviews... Condition: GOOD, 130+ years old... commensurate to age, tiny bit of imulsion loss on right image in the water fall area, may have usual surface soiling, and or edge rubs, corner dings. Please see scans . The newspaper's first building was located at 113 Nassau Street in New York City. In 1854, it moved to 138 Nassau Street, and in 1858 it moved to 41 Park Row , making it the first newspaper in New York City housed in a building built specifically for its use The New York Times was founded on September 18, 1851, by journalist and politician Henry Jarvis Raymond , the second chairman of the Republican National Committee , and former banker George Jones as the New-York Daily Times . Sold at an original price of one cent per copy, the inaugural edition attempted to address the various speculations on its purpose and positions that preceded its release: [4 ] We shall be Conservative , in all cases w we think Conservatism essential to the public good;—and we shall be Radical in everything which may seem to us to require radical treatment and radical reform. We do not believe that everything in Society is either exactly right or exactly wrong;—what is good we desire to preserve and improve;—what is evil, to exterminate, or reform. The paper changed its name to The New York Times in 1857. The newspaper was originally published every day but Sunday, but on April 21, 1861, due to the demand for daily coverage of the Civil War the Times , along with other major dailies, started publishing Sunday issues. One of the earliest public controversies in which the paper was involved was the Mortara Affair , an affair that was the object of twenty editorials in the Times alone. [ 5] The paper's influence grew during 1870–71 when it published a series of exposés of Boss Tweed that led to the end of the Tweed Ring 's domination of New York's City Hall .[ 6] In the 1880s, the Times transitioned from supporting Republican candidates to becoming politically independent; in 1884, the paper supported Democrat Grover Cleveland in his first presidential election. While this move hurt the Times's readership, the paper regained most of its lost ground within a few years. [7 ] The Times was acquired by Adolph Ochs , publisher of The Chattanooga Times , in 1896. The following year, he coined the paper's slogan, "All The News That's Fit To Print"; [7 ] this was a jab at competing papers such as the New York World and the New York Journal American which were known for lurid yellow journalism . Under his guidance, The New York Times achieved international scope, circulation, and reputation. In 1904, the Times received the first on-the-spot wireless transmission from a naval battle, a report of the destruction of the Russian fleet at the Battle of Port Arthur in the Yellow Sea from the press-boat Haimun during the Russo-Japanese war . In 1910, the first air delivery of the Times to Philadelphia began. [7 ] The Times' first trans-Atlantic delivery to London occurred in 1919. In 1920, a "4 A.M. Airplane Edition" was sent by plane to Chicago so it could be in the hands of Republican convention delegates by evening. [8 ] Brief History: Stereoview pictures are usually taken by means of a camera with two lenses. This provides two separate pictures 2.5 inches apart, about the distance between the eyes. Although the pictures may appear the same, they are slightly different. When looked at in a viewer, which has prismatic lenses, the two views blend into one and the brain perceives this image in three dimensions the same as normal vision. The stereo effect can be quite astonishing e... read more

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