This photo shows the upper portion of a front page of the New York Times, for a day around 79 years ago. The page shows what was happening around the world on the day my mother was born.
I made this page by taping together for sheets of 8.5 by 11 inch pieces of paper, using 3M brand 1.5-inch wide clear tape.
The four sheets each cost me 20 cents. They were output from a microfilm printing machine in the basement microfilms room in the main library of the LSU campus in Baton Rouge.
To take this photo I held the sheet up against the front windows of my apartment. Ambient light (sunlight reflected from the parking lot surface) is shown reflecting off the tape. The tape forms a "plus sign", extending up and down the middle both vertically and horizontally. As is shown by the horizontal "stripe" of reflected light, the photo shows the topmost 55% or so of the overall page. |
