CHICAGO, IL (November 5, 2008) – The outcome of last night's historic American presidential election produced dramatic photographs, and around the country at some newspapers page designers and editors found that a picture could delivery history's message by carrying the entire front page.
The Hartford Courant turned its front page sideways, so that it could run a photograph even larger.
Some of those papers also had to start their presses again today, to re-print more copies of today's paper as reader demand pressed for collector editions. The Chicago Tribune and The New York Times say they're printing 50,000 more papers today, and the Washington Post is running an additional 150,000 off the presses.
In Chicago, the Tribune and the Sun-Times went border-to-border with a full-page front page photograph of president-elect Barack Obama, and several other newspapers around the country published similar front pages. Here are a few examples:
See more front pages from about this historic election online here at the Newseum's Web site.
