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New York, New York. Recording room of the New York Times newspaper. Overseas shortwave telephone operators receive messages from Berne, Switzerland, and Honolulu. Other places have been cut off since the war

New York, New York. Pressroom of the New York Times newspaper. Pressman reading first edition as it comes off presses on conveyor, to detect defective press work

New York, New York. Pressroom of the New York Times department. Finished papers come out of cutting and folding machine on rapidly moving belt. Every fiftieth is automatically slated to facilitate counting

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New York, New York. Wire room of the New York Times newspaper. Copy boy about to tear off dispatch coming over Associated Press

New York, New York. Telegraph room of the New York Times newspaper. Telegrapher on the direct wire from Washington, D.C.

New York, New York. Photo engraving department of the New York Times newspaper. Examining the dots on the screen of a strip negative in the darkroom before it is transferred to a zinc plate

New York, New York. Drama department of the New York Times newspaper. Brooks Atkinson, drama critic, longhanding the review of a new play

New York, New York. Pressroom of the New York Times newspaper. After casting, plates are shaved of unessential metal, and cooled in water in shaver

New York, New York. Mailroom of the New York Times newspaper. Papers, delivered from press room on a conveyor, are tied into packages according to orders from retailers

New York, New York. Photographic department of the New York Times newspaper. One of eight staff photographers returns to staff room after assignment. Over door is eulogy of new camera. At left are maps of the city and region for photographers' reference

New York, New York. "Morgue" of the New York Times newspaper. Clippings on every conceivable subject are filed here for a reference. Editors and writers phone in for information. In center background is a photograph of Adolph Ochs, founder of the paper

New York, New York. "Morgue" of the New York Times newspaper. Tommy Bracken, head of the Morgue, who has been with the paper fifty-one years and is its oldest employee, looking up something for an editor or writer who has phoned in for information

New York, New York. Newsroom of the New York Times newspaper. Reporters and rewrite men writing stories, and waiting to be sent out. Rewrite man in background gets the story on the phone from reporter outside

New York, New York. Library of the New York Times newspaper. Editors and writers can look up every conceivable subject and get information not available in the "morgue"

New York, New York. Signaller on the track of the Third Avenue elevated railway near 14th Street in the early morning

New York, New York. Waiting in line for rowboats at the Central Park lake boat house on Sunday

New York, New York. Sunday bench sitters in front of the Central Park Zoo restaurant

New Yrok, New York. Sunday bench sitters in front of the Central Park Zoo restaurant

New York, New York. Children lined up for their turn at pony rides in Central Park on Sunday

New York, New York. 94th Street station of the Third Avenue elevated railway at 8 a.m.

New York, New York. Bicycling in Central Park on Sunday

New York, New York. Third Avenue elevated railway at 17th Street

New York, New York. Irish-American policeman in Central Park on Sunday