Publishing

Otto Bettmann and editor Manley Stolzman discuss final picture selection for The Bettmann Archive Picture History of the World that…

Otto Bettmann examining negatives, ca. 1930s.

Undated illustration depicting the burning of John Peter Zenger's "Weekly Journal" on Wall Street on, November 6, 1734.

The 10,000-square-foot Corbis facility houses over 13 million photographic negatives, engravings and prints in storage conditions below zero degrees Fahrenheit…

Cover of City Tavern Cookbook by Walter Staib.

Frontispiece from Christoph Sauer’s 1747 Hochdeutsch Americanische Calender. The illustration offers an allegorical depiction of the news publisher’s role within…

German Newspapers, 1922

Illustrated title page of Otto von Guericke's famous book describing the Magdeburg hemisphere. Engraving, 1672.

Illustration from the cover page of the 1791 Neue Hoch Deutsche Americanische Calender published by Samuel Sauer, one of Christoph…

Kurt Wolff and Jacques Schiffrin at the Pantheon office in the second half of the 1940s.

Kurt Wolff in Leipzig, ca. 1913

Photograph of linotype compositors at work at N.Y. World, 1909

Ottmar Mergenthaler’s New York Tribune machine of 1886. From: Leading American inventors, by George Iles … with fifteen portraits and…

Times Building on Far Right.

Illustration of the New York Tribune Linotype machine in use at the newspaper. From: “A Machine to Supersede Typesetting,” Scientific…

Undated photograph of New York Tribune publisher Whitelaw Reid.

The neo-Baroque villa in Munich that housed the Kurt Wolff Verlag from 1919 to 1930