Babies, Beasts and the Bizarre From Times Contests Past

From 1914 till 1936, The New York Times published a separate photo feature, the Mid-Week Pictorial, which sometimes included winners of Times photo contests. The contest judges seemed to favor the quirky, the animal and the surprising.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/28/babies-beasts-and-the-bizarre-from-times-contests-past/

“These photos are the first we have discovered within the collection that were submitted by readers, in the days before crowd-sourcing was a digital transaction.

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