1918-02-28 Mid-Week Pictorial Magazine Contents

1918/02/28 –

Mid-Week Pictorial – Published Weekly by the New York Times Company. Measures 11″ X 16″. Volume 6, Number 26 – February 28, 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 features and action photo, captioned: British Artillery Men in the Advance on Jerusalem

Article: A Flashlight on Some Aspects of the War – with photo of 5 soldiers and the marching colors of the French Foreign Legion

2 photos on a single page, headlined: Scenes in an Army Training Camp in the South

4 large photos spread over two facing pages, headlined: General Winter in Command of All Armies in the Western Theatre of the War

6 photos spread over two facing pages, headlined: The United States Army in France Engaged in Warfare in Real Earnest Since Taking Over Sector in Lorraine

Full-page horizontal photo with caption at right shows a snow-covered village in Alsace

Full-page photo, headlined: Japanese Christians Celebrate the Capture of Jerusalem

Full-page photo, headlined: Belgian Infantry Advancing Across the Snow-Covered Dunes of Flanders

2 photos on a single page, headlined: Where Belgians and French Fight Side by Side

HUGE photos spreads two full pages in the center of the issue, headlined: Picked Men of America’s New Armies Redy to Leave for the Trenches in France

Full-page photo, headlined: The Rugged Sentinels of the Upper Brenta Valley, Where the Teutonic Forces Have Failed to Dislodge the Allied Defenders

2 large photos on a single page, headlined: French and British Troops in the Italian Campaign

Full-page photo, headlined: The Kaiser Visits the Scene of a German Success in France

2 large photos with brief article on a single page, headlined: Shell Craters Transformed Into Relief Quarters

2 photos on a single page with brief article at the bottom of the page, headlined: Paris Bombed by German Air Raiders

Large, nearly full-page, map with small article below, headlined: Russia Enters on New and More Perilous Phase

5 photos on two-facing pages with brief article, headlined: A Hospital for War-Worn Automobiles in Paris Laying Telephone Lines to the Firing Line

Full-page photo, headlined: This Village “Somewhere in France” Was Once a Happy Dwelling Place of Peaceful People

Article: A Flashlight on Some Aspects of the War

Back Cover, 2 photos with brief article, headlined: Japan’s Work in Clearing the Pacific of Raiders