As the first director of the New York Public Library, John Shaw Billings (1838-1913) was the early guiding force behind that institution's reputation as one of the premier information providers in the...
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John Shaw Billings was a master of the groundbreaking narrative prose style of Time magazine in the 1920s and a pioneer in photojournalism, playing a key role in developing the "photo essay," or story...
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