Arizona Times (1941)

The Arizona Times was published in Phoenix starting in 1941 and claimed to be the first newspaper to be produced using photolithography instead of stereotyping. This process was more in line with the way magazines were produced and allowed the newspaper to print photos at a cheaper cost. This process may be why the front and back pages included red ink in some of the headlines- unusual for newspapers of the time. The newspaper covered a lot of government and political news, but also mining, agricultural, and other business news. Small articles covered interesting tidbits from across Arizona, with the first issue of the newspaper spending a lot of print on well-known men around Arizona. 

This collection includes the only issue the State of Arizona Research Library has in its physical collections.