1918/01/24 -

Mid-Week Pictorial - Published Weekly by the New York Times Company. Measures 11" X 16". Volume 6, Number 21 - January 24, 1918

Largely consisting of photos with captions though with occassional blocks of longer text, the Mid-Week Pictorial is photojournalism before LIFE. Basically a roto section of The New York Times.

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

Cover: LEON TROTZKY - The People's Commissary for Foreign Affairs in the Russian Bolshevist Government

  • Full-page photo: A Machine Gun Section of the New American Army
  • Full-page photo: Men of AMerica's New Armies on the Way to the Manoeuvre Grounds for Machine-Gun Practice
  • 2 pages of photos with text: General Goethals Takes Hold of the Huge Work of Directing the Army's Transportation Service
  • 6 pages of photos, map: America's Insular Possessions an Example of Colonial Autonomy and Respect for Rights of Natives
  • Full-page photos: Winter on the French Front in Alsace
  • Full-page photo: A French Army Supply Station in the Quarries of the Verdun Region
  • Nearly full-page photo with column of text at right: Bolshevism has now been in the ascendant for ten weeks ...