大鼠逃离下沉的船!节省繁荣每日邮报大西洋版

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By Seth Cayley

The Atlantic Edition

In 2013, Cengage Learning released the每日邮件Historical Archive 1896-2004,什么样的纽约人已经描述为“掌管英国报纸”完整的存档。在我们的研究项目中,我们发现报纸的历史的一个长期被遗忘的宝藏。在20世纪20年代和30年代,每日邮报发表的“大西洋版”;一个完全独立的版本的报纸上纽约和南安普敦之间航行的大西洋套出售。

What made this so revolutionary was that the day’s news was transmitted to the ships wirelessly, from Britain and America, to wherever they happened to be in the Atlantic. Every day, the newspaper’s on-board staff would work through the night to write-up the stories, typeset, and print them, so a crisp edition of the每日邮报大西洋版could be waiting at passengers’ breakfast tables.

作为一每日邮件’s自己的记者所说的那样:“一个特别有前途的性格是由一个事实,即乘客中的许多美国富人在他们的首次访问欧洲提供给企业。”对于“富人”,读“百万富翁”。对于巴黎的时装店,萨维尔街的裁缝,和远在挪威的酒店,这个富裕的大西洋读者是一个梦想,而他们很快签署了在报纸刊登广告。从1924年,引人注目的独家协议与Cunard线,和它的姊妹公司锚索每日邮件设法垄断利基但行业非常有利可图的口袋里。

作为文化活力的咆哮的二十年代的旅行和纯粹的奢侈的象征,狂热的每日邮报大西洋版is a unique record of the interwar years.

Bound volumes of the Daily Mail Atlantic Edition, showing both ‘Wireless Page’ volumes and the ‘Complete’ volume for the “A” Boat in a state of disrepair.
Bound volumes of the Daily Mail Atlantic Edition, showing both ‘Wireless Page’ volumes and the ‘Complete’ volume for the “A” Boat in a state of disrepair.

Scanning the Volumes

These issues are extremely rare, and even the British Library does not hold copies. The only known set is held by Associated Newspapers itself. Long-neglected, the bound volumes have suffered rodent, water and other storage damage over the years, and are deteriorating fast. Cengage Learning strongly believed that preserving this neglected source was an important task for future generations of researchers.

The Atlantic Edition was scanned from the physical copies, as no microfilm exists. The bindings were removed to permit flat scanning, and the volumes were subsequently re-bound and put into deep vacuum storage to prevent further decay. Some issues were in poor condition or missing entirely, but unfortunately no replacement copies were available. Ultimately, we have aimed to provide as full a record of the edition as possible.

通过返回这些显着的版本,以数字格式的世界,这最终将有可能再次欣赏这个非同寻常的企业。

Scanning the Atlantic Edition.
Scanning the Atlantic Edition.

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