Research Question

[impressive]

Does anyone know when U.S. newspapers began printing photographs?

I'm editing a story for Phaze, and the author has the protagonist reading an old clipping from an 1875 newspaper which features a photograph.

Possible?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photojournalism

 

[impressive]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photojournalism

The practice of illustrating news stories with photographs was made possible by printing and photography innovations that occurred between 1880 and 1897. While newsworthy events were photographed as early as the 1850s, printing presses could only publish from engravings until the 1880s. Early news photographs required that photos be re-interpreted by an engraver before they could be published.

Thank you.

 

[cantdog]

I see someone beat me to it. Good show.