Reflecting changing aesthetics and journalistic styles, the student newspaper has frequently changed its look. From the 1880s to 1903, the covers of The Northwestern went from advertising pages, to romantic vistas with inspiring quotations, to beaux-arts graphics. The Daily has been no less trendy, trying out many different typefaces and styles for its masthead.
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Northwestern Magazine, 1881 |
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Northwestern Magazine, 1882 |
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Northwestern, 1891 |
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The Northwestern, 1899 |
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The Northwestern, 1899 |
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The Northwestern, 1901 |
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The Northwestern, 1902 |
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The Northwestern, 1903 |
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Daily Northwestern, 1942 |
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The Daily Northwestern, 1971 |
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The Daily Northwestern, 1975 |
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The Daily Northwestern, 1982 |
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The Daily Northwestern, 1984 |
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Location, Location, Location (1)
In 1887, the Northwestern University Press Co., which published The Northwestern, was housed in the Gymnasium building (built 1876; replaced by the first Patten Gym in 1909), north of Fisk Hall. Students set the type and the newspaper was printed in Chicago . By 1888, the NU Press Co. had bought its own cylinder press, and later moved off-campus into Evanston .
Photo: Gymnasium Building |
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Location, Location, Location (2)
By 1900, the student newspaper offices were in the basement of Old College; in the mid-1920s they moved to the attic of the School of Commerce (Memorial Hall); then, after World War II, they were housed in one of the Steelcraft huts near Fisk that had been set up as temporary housing for the overflow of new and returning students.
Photo: Steelcraft Huts
(in background: Fayerweather Hall, razed 1954)
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Location, Location, Location (3)
Between the mid-1950s and 1972, The Daily offices occupied space in the basement of Harris Hall, the basement of the Music School, the Music School Annex, and Fisk Hall (the basement, of course). After a total of about eight moves since its inception, the newspaper finally settled into its current headquarters on the third floor of the new Norris University Center .
Photo: Norris, circa 1972 |
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Photos of Daily staffers, circa 1959 and 1978 |
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