Object Timeline

  • We acquired this object.

2019

  • Work on this object began.

2024

2025

Photograph, A four-page-wide continuous web of paper runs through the printing press

This is a Photograph. It was photographed by Christopher Payne and subject: The New York Times.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Christopher Payne as part of Made in America: The Industrial Photography of Christopher Payne.

It is dated 2019. Its medium is digital pigment print. It is a part of the Exhibitions department.


Paper runs through the press at a rate of 2,500 feet per minute, printing up to 75,000 copies of the New York Times an hour.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 134.6 × 101.6 cm (53 × 40 in.) H x W (framed dimensions): 139.7 × 106.7 cm (55 × 42 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Made in America: The Industrial Photography of Christopher Payne.

There are restrictions for re-using this image. For more information, visit the Smithsonian’s Terms of Use page.

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