Williamsport: The Grit Photograph Collection

by Robin Van Auken and Louis E. Hunsinger

Book Overview

For more than one hundred years, the Grit was small-town America's favorite family newspaper and a Sunday morning staple. Dietrick Lamade, a German immigrant and self-made man, founded the Grit and ushered it through early adversity and uncertainty, eventually initiating innovations such as direct mail and nationwide newsboy delivery, transforming the paper into a national institution. The Grit was one of the first newspapers in America to feature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738535001
• ISBN13: 9780738535005
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 9.3"