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  • Joseph Papin at the Wedtech Trial – NY Daily News and the Riverdale Press

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    Joseph Papin covered the Wedtech Trial for both the Daily News and the Riverdale Press. His drawing of the courtroom below is one of the ones that he drew from an overhead perspective while sitting at ground level: Daily News: August 5, 1988 “The Defendants Listen as jury forewoman reads the verdicts.” Joe Papin’s political…

  • Joe Papin – Drawing Caricatures at OSU and Daily News Events

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    Joe Papin started as an artist working his way through Ohio State University. One of the ways that he supported himself was by drawing caricatures, once using his talents to pay for a trip to Florida. LANTERNPublished by the Ohio State University School of JournalismColumbus, Ohio, Tuesday, January 25, 1955 Papin Caricatures Gain Popularity “Pardonne-moi,…

  • Joseph Papin – Sketches of Bobby and Ted Kennedy

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    One of our cousins sent some cards and drawings that Joe Papin had given to his brother Don. One was a little sketch that was done on a piece of paper from a United States Senate Memo pad. It looks like it already had a bit of writing or a little doodle on it before…

  • Joseph Papin: Southern District of NY Federal Courthouse

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    Joseph Papin, Southern District of New York Thurgood Marshall United States Federal Courthouse Note that the Southern District Court now meets in both the Southern District of New York Thurgood Marshall United States Federal Courthouse and the new Daniel Patrick Moynihan Southern District of New York Federal Courthouse (built in 1993). “On November 3, 1789,…

  • Joseph Papin – Greenwich Village around the borders

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    The post tonight goes back 63 years to a 1961 circular for Grand Union that Joseph Papin illustrated. I like the little border drawings of difference NYC Greenwich Village scenes as well as the drawing of the Washington Arch in Washington Square Park. Views: 45

  • Joseph Papin – “Spectating the Spectators” – Car and Driver

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    I found two of Joseph Papin’s original on-the-scene drawings that ran in the January 1962 Car and Driver magazine: “Spectating the Spectators by Joseph Papin “It’s true sports car races give a chance to see a variety of interesting machinery, but perhaps more fascinating are the thousands of fans crowding behind the snowfencing. You should…

  • Happy Earth Day! – Joseph Papin on the Scene – 1972 Walk for Mankind

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    Daily News, May 15, 1972, Monmouth Walk for Mankind “News drawing by Staff Artist Joseph Papin catches the spirit of yesterday’s Walk for Mankind. “More than 1,800 marchers participated in a 21 mile Walk for Mankind in Monmouth County yesterday and raised $40,000 for Project Concern, an organization that provides medical care, food and aid…

  • Joseph Papin – Printing Plates for two perspectives on the legalization of marijuana

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    I had not realized that April 20 was adopted as as the day of celebrating cannabis about 35 years ago. The January 30, 1968 issue of National Review was published more than 20 years before that time. Joseph Papin illustrated two articles that addressed whether marijuana should be legalized. (“Should We Legalize Pot?” National Review,…

  • Joseph Papin – Boats in the East River – NYC

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    I am fond of children’s literature and of the passage in The Wind in the Willows when Ratty says to Mole: “Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats” (Kenneth Grahame, 1908). The people crewing these boats were not “messing…

  • Joseph Papin – Photostats

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    Joseph Papin had a quite a few photostats of his drawings. He often had both a “white lines on black background” version of the drawing, as well as the more familiar “black lines on white background” version. These photostats are of his earlier work from 1957 through the 1960s, with at least a couple in…

  • Four Color Separations

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    These are proof pages of four-color separations from the printer of the May 7, 1966 cover of Business Week that Joseph Papin illustrated. It was rolled up in the back of a cabinet with three other of his Business Week covers. This one is my favorite because of all the color and how interesting the…

  • Linotype and Ludlow – Casting Lead Type

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    I found an interesting chart that differentiates the different types of metal compositions using lead in producing type for printing: “While often referred to as ‘lead type,’ type is, in fact, a variable alloy of 54-86% lead, 11-28% antimony and 3-18% tin. Antimony hardens the metal. Tin toughens the metal, counteracting the brittleness of antimony,…

  • Linotype

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    The following drawing of a Linotype machine by Joseph Papin was done for the August 1958 issue of Harper’s Magazine on the New York Times. The New York Times stopped using their Linotypes in 1978 and switched to using computers; the Daily News got rid of their Linotypes in 1979, ending almost 100 years of…

  • Joseph Papin Daily News Zinc Printing Plates

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    The last post showed photoengraved zinc printing plates mounted on wood. They were from 1967 and were printed as relief (also known as letterpress) prints, i.e., the words and lines of the drawing are higher than the plate itself. Some of the plates were also unmounted zinc plates, and later, magnesium printing plates: For example,…

  • The Process of Producing Photoengraved Printing Plates

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    Joe Papin, April 7, 1980, New York Daily News In order to explain the printing plates, I have researched the process and history of printing from the late 1950s to the early 1990s, a time period of enormous change. Just as the specter of cameras in the courtroom informs the story of courtroom art, the…

  • Joseph Papin Printing Plates

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    The 50s to the 90s were marked by a revolution in printing – from “hot type” using molten lead and photoengraving to “cold type” using computers. I found a box of printing plates of some of my father’s drawings in his studio and was intrigued with learning how they were used.  The printing plate below…

  • Faces of the Bowery

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    Drawings and note by Joseph Papin, circa 1957 “Some of the passersby on the Bowery The gentleman to the right explained he was 32 years with the Merchant Marine, spiced story with harrowing adventures on the high seas, concluding with a request for a drink.  Voiced disappointment when it was discovered I had no money.”…

  • East Harlem Protestant Parish – Happy Easter!

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    Joseph Papin did this drawing when he was working with the East Harlem Protestant Parish (EHPP) in NYC in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He illustrated their work with the community and with the gangs in the area and taught art classes to the youth. Views: 51

  • The Other Side of the Street on the Bowery

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    We looked at the buildings on the even-numbered side of the Bowery circa 1957 compared to the most recent 2022 Google maps image. Tonight we are looking at the odd-numbered side. Once again, the document by Architectural and Urban Historian Kerri Culhane, The Bowery Historic District State and National Register Report (listed in the National…

  • The Tri-City Barber School on the Bowery

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    Joseph Papin’s drawing of the Bowery from yesterday’s post (March 27, 2024) includes a row of buildings – two of which housed the Tri-City Barber School – 206 and 204. The NYC gov website lists the address of the School as 206 Bowery – “Tri-City Barber School (c. 1933-46” (https://www.nyc.gov/assets/lpc/downloads/pdf/proposed_landmarks/206 Bowery House.pdf). Indeed, the 1933…

  • Buildings on the Bowery: Drawings by Joseph Papin

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    I discovered two wonderful resources in the process of working to correctly identify the addresses and names of the buildings in Joseph Papin’s Bowery street drawings. The Bowery Alliance of Neighbors (BAN) put together a fascinating exhibit called Windows on the Bowery that provides photos and descriptions of some of the buildings on the Bowery…

  • The last Bowery flophouse

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    Joseph Papin, various Bowery flophouse hotel signs, circa 1957. The rest of the drawings in this post are circa 1957 unless noted. The stretch of road known as the Bowery is about one mile long, from Chatham Square to Cooper Square. The Bowery is no longer skid row. Some of the buildings on the Bowery…

  • Blackie McBride: 30 Years on the Bowery

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    “’Share and share alike’ was the motto of Blackie McBride, a citizen of 30 years standing on the Bowery. His face and general person showed the truth of his statement that he been all over and knew and had done it all! Blackie was of medium build, rather short with thinning gray hair and deep…

  • Stories on the Bowery

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    I had initially put together what I thought were all of Joseph Papin’s on-the-scene Bowery drawings and his notes. After the drawings and notes I found were compiled, I found many more. The drawings that surfaced later were illustrated in a manner somewhat similar to the style of some graphic novels, and told the stories…

  • The Bowery Mission

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    Joseph Papin, on-the-scene drawings on the Bowery at the Bowery Mission, circa 1957. “Basement, Bowery Mission, run by the Christian Herald, men know as ‘the boys’ wait in line to show identity cards and have meal ticket punched, next on schedule a 45 min message from the minister in upstairs chapel.” “Group of the boys,…

  • Drawing on the Bowery

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    “As an example of my wanderings, let me briefly introduce the Bowery …” (The Street is my Studio, Joseph Papin, American Artist, 1959). Drawings done on-the-scene circa 1957. “$0.60 per night, $2.85 per week” “Monroe Hotel on the Bowery providing the barest necessities for its patrons, rates seemed reasonable, reading facilities were provided for those…

  • The Street is my Studio

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    Near the beginning of his career as a professional artist Joseph Papin wrote: “For the past few years I have been primarily concerned with reportorial art and have attempted to depict the endless streets, places, and people of the great city of New York in a continuing effort to see and understand and perhaps, as…

  • The Peking at the South Street Seaport (1975-2016)

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    If you look closely at yesterday’s post about the South Street Seaport and Schermerhorn Row, you can see four masts of a sailing ship in the background. That ship is the Peking, a four masted barque that was moored at the South Street Seaport as a part of the South Street Seaport Museum from 1975…

  • The South Street Seaport and Schermerhorn Row

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    One of Joseph Papin’s drawings that was a part the photo gallery that we sent to the Library of Congress in the summer of 2015 was this drawing of Schermerhorn Row. I found where it had appeared in the Daily News as a part of the “Undiscovered Manhattan” series by Hope Cooke. I didn’t recognize…

  • Daily News Newspoint Rotogravure Printing

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    These drawings are three of about a dozen done by Joseph Papin depicting various operations at the Daily News Newspoint printing facility. Newspoint was in operation from 1972-1982 – an astonishingly short time. I wasn’t completely certain of what type of printing Newspoint did until I found the following section of an article by Peter…

  • Drawing cartoons of one another – Joe Papin and Jerry Schlamp

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    Jerry Schlamp was one of the artists located in Editorial Art on the 7th floor of the Daily News building. Jerry was known for his cartoons which ranged from being gently playful to wickedly funny to drawings that were described as “way over the top.” I have not seen the “way over the top” drawings…

  • The Villager, The Village Sun and the Daily News

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    Lincoln Anderson, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of The Village Sun, wrote an article that was published in The Village Sun on August 14, 2020 on the closing of the Daily News newsroom. Entitled “Extra! … is what Daily News considers its newsroom during pandemic” the article used the following drawings that Joseph Papin had done of…

  • Covering the 1960 United Nations General Assembly

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    Welcome to the new Joseph Papin Blog! Joseph Papin specialized in reportorial art – on-the-scene drawing – the artist as reporter. He illustrated Washington, covering legislation in the House and Senate, and all the activities of a Presidential inauguration. He covered most of the major U.S. trials for over two decades, the Watergate hearings, the…