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1921-04-21 Mid-Week Pictorial Magazine Contents

1921/04/21 –

Mid-Week Pictorial – Published Weekly by the New York Times Company. Measures 11″ X 16″. Volume 13, Number 8 – April 21, 1921

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: MISS MARY MILES MINTER (Photo credited to Edward Thayer Monroe)

  • Principals and Jury in Georgia Murder Case – 3 photos on a half page featuring the Jury which brought in a verdict of guilty against pictured John S. Williams, a wealthy Georgia Planter, who had Clyde Manning (pictured), overseer of his plantation, kill eleven negroes at his mater’s instigation
  • Large photo of First Home Run of 1921 Baseball Season, New York, April 13 hit by Ward of the New York Yankees
  • President’s First Golf Game Since Inauguration – Features large photo of President Harding with some text
  • Women of Note and Fashions in Vogue – 5 photos on a single page, the largest of which is a full-length shot of Tallulah Bankhead
  • Rowing, Racing, Baseball, Golf and Other Leading Sporting Events in America, Europe and Asia — 9 photos over 2 full-pages
  • President Harding Reading HIs Message at Joint Session of the Sixty-Seventh Congress, April 12, 1921 — Huge photo of Congress spans the entire 2-pages in the center of the issue with some descriptive text underneath
  • Death of the Ex-Kaiserin at Doorn Holland — 3 photos of Augusta Victoria, one from 1884, one family photo in 1895, a half-page photo as she appeared during the war
  • Exciting and Important Work of Harbor Police — 4 photos with text over a single page, includes one nearly half-page shot from New York Harbor with skyline in background
  • Leading Actresses on Stage and Screen and Striking Scenes from Current Theatrical Productions — 9 photos over two pages including large headshots of each John Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore, a half-page photo of George Arliss in “The Green Goddess”, smaller pics of Anna Q. Nilsson, Ruth Renick, Maurine Powers, and others
  • Full-page ad on the back cover for D.W. Griffith’s “Dream Street” featuring Carol Dempster and Ralph Graves
  • Plus, believe it or not, more pages with several more photos!
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