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Article: Printing history of the Amsterdam News
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- December 13, 2000
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Barber, Chris
New York Amsterdam News
12-13-2000
Printing history of the Amsterdam News
James Henry Anderson produced the first edition of the Amsterdam News on a
dressmaker's table with six sheets of paper and a lead pencil. The year was
1909, and the New York Amsterdam News, as it was called, was one of only 50
Black newspapers in the United States. It sold for two cents a copy from
Anderson's home at 132 W. 65th St., in the San Juan Hill section of
Manhattan.
Today, the New York Amsterdam News is one of New York's largest and most
influential Black-owned and -operated businesses.
The Amsterdam News was created as a standard size or broadsheet newspaper,
the same size as The New York Times. It had ...