2012.045.161
Postcard
The Detroit News Building, The World's Greatest Newspaper Plant
Postcard. Color illustration of the interior of the Detroit News Building depicting office workers and a desk sign in the foreground that reads "Auditor". Printed on the recto, "The 'First-In-America' advertising record was established in these offices."
Printed on the verso, "The Detroit News set a world record in 1920 by publishing 28.117.238 lines of paid advertising. The News triumphed over all other newspapers in America, in advertising published, in 1916, 1919 and 1920, stood second in 1915, 1917, 1918, and 1920, and third in 1922. Of the 13 greatest trading areas of the United States, none is so completely covered in circulation by one newspaper as is the Detroit trading territory by The Detroit News."