Jun 21, 2016 - Sale 2420

Sale 2420 - Lot 238

Price Realized: $ 250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
THE FIRST AMERICAN COLOR HALFTONE NEWSPAPER ILLUSTRATION? (NEWSPAPERS.) The Saturday Globe's first color illustration. Volume XV, #42, Herkimer County edition. 8 pages on 2 folding sheets, 23 x 17 inches; minimal wear. Utica, NY, 7 March 1896
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The Utica Saturday Globe was launched as a typical small-city weekly newspaper in 1881, but expanded rapidly on the strength of its cutting-edge illustrations. By 1896, it was publishing 33 local editions, distributed across the country. "The Saturday Globe . . . claimed to be the first newspaper to print cartoon and half-tones in color. The newspaper's first color half-tone appeared 7 March 1896, vividly depicting an apartment-house fire on Genesee Street in Utica"--Frasca, The Rise and Fall of the Saturday Globe, page 100. On page 2 is an article on Harriet Tubman titled "The Moses of her People," illustrated with a black-and-white halftone photograph.