1918-03-28 Mid-Week Pictorial Magazine Contents

1918/03/28 –

Mid-Week Pictorial – Published Weekly by the New York Times Company. Measures 11″ X 16″. Volume 7, Number 4 – March 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: AN ITALIAN ANTI AIRCRAFT MACHINE GUN IN ACTION AGAINST AN ENEMY AIR RAIDER

Our Nation’s Roll of Honor – Photos of 14 U.S. soldiers killed in action

Photos: America’s Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in Training at Camps All the Way From the Pacific to the Atlantic Coast

Full-page photo: Band of a French Chasseur Regiment Playing “The Star-Spangled Banner”

Photos: American Soldiers in the Streets of New York

Full-page photo: The Latest Photograph of the War-Worn Cathedral of Rheims

Full-page photo: Aerial Warfare in Northern Italy Causes Destruction in Beautiful Cities (pic is actually of 4 planes on the ground, then 3 pics on the facing page of the destruction)

Huge 2-page map spreads the center two pages of the issue — The Iron Wall Which Hems Germany in on the Western Frontier and North Sea Coast

Photos with article: How Italy Holds Back the Teuton Invaders Behind Defenses Built on the Mountain Tops

Full-page photo: At the First Approach of Spring on the Front in France

Full-page photo: The Remains of the German Defenses on the Merckem Peninsula

2 full-page photos (one with a column of text to the right) German Big Gun in Action on the Western Front – German howitzer