A Digital Window to Sumner's History

The Sumner News Index from 1948 to 1958 had a feature called the Pictorial Section,  a unique addition to the newspaper.

Here is why.

The paper was still being printed with traditional processes. The product of a Linotype and movable metal and wood type.

At that time, publishing a photograph was expensive,  an outside firm would have to convert the photo into a printing block.

In 1947, the News Index publisher, Pete Andrews, came up with an inexpensive way to provide many photographs in each issue.

He purchased a small offset press and printed a  two sided 10 x 13 inch "collage" of photos which was then inserted into the paper. It was titled "The Pictorial Section of the Sumner News Index."  Most of the pictures were related to a story in that week's issue.