1920/12/30 -

Mid-Week Pictorial - Published Weekly by the New York Times Company. Measures 11" X 16". Volume 12, Number 18 - December 30, 1920

Largely consisting of photos with captions though with occassional blocks of longer text, the Mid-Week Pictorial is photojournalism before LIFE.

Interesting contents picked up from paging through this particular issue are as follows:

Cover: The New Year Girl -- Specially posed by Miss Dorothy Gish for The Mid-Week Pictorial

  • "Best Minds" Conference at President-Elect's Home picturing former President Taft, Charles Evans Hughes, Elihu Root, Henry Cabot Lodge, William E. Borah, and others
  • American Champions in the Leading Indoor and Outdoor Sports for the Year Now Drawing to Its Close - Several photos over two pages including: Willie Hoppe - Bill Tilden - team photo of the 1920 A.L. Champion Cleveland Indians - BABE RUTH - Ed Strangler Lewis - MAN O'WAR - others
  • Destruction and Reprisal Still Rife in Ireland -- 6 photos with captions over two full-pages
  • Famine in China That Is Sweeping Five Provinces - 5 photos over a full-page
  • New Rulers, Presidents and Premiers of 1920 - Several photos over a full-page including: Alfredo De Zayas , The President of Cuba - President Warren G. Harding of the U.S. - King Constantine I of Greece - President Alex-Andre Millerand of France - Several Others
  • Notable Plays That Have Won Popular Favor in 1920 -- 12 photos over the 2 pages in the middle of this issue
  • Founder and Recipient of Nobel Prizes - 7 photos over a full page, includes: Alfred Nobel - Woodrow Wilson - Knut Hamsun - Charles Guillaume - Carl Spitteler - Others
  • Climactic Scenes in Some of the Most Successful Photoplays That Have Been Presented in 1920 -- Several photos over two-full pages include shots of Lillian Gish in "Way Down East" - John Barrymore in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" - Pola Negri in "Passion" - Douglas Fairbanks - Gloria Swanson in "Male and Female" - Lon Chaney in "The Penalty" - many others
  • Recent Internal Developments in Soviet Russia - Several photos of 2 full-pages including a shot of Lenin
  • A half-page ad for Selznick Pictures on the back cover features Elaine Hammerstein - William Faversham - Eugene O'Brien - Owen Moore - Conway Tearle - Martha Mansfield
  • Plus, believe it or not, more pages with several more photos!