THE  Highlighted papers are in the  OLDINK Collection

1) City Editions: On November 3, 1948,  54 pages. and  were delivered  within the city limits.

(2) 40 Mile Circulation: Papers delivered by bulk by truck, train or bus to news dealers from suburbs up to 40 miles

(3) Mail Editions: These were much smaller -- fewer pages -- than the standard city editions. Local ads like the classified and display ads as well as much of the national ads were left out of the mail editions. For the November 3, 1948 editions, each in this category had 28 pages.

The following is a time line showing the order in which the issues were printed, what ear was on it, and some of the information used to determine when each edition was printed: along with the link of the 5 out of 7 papers in the collection

(1) "GOVERNOR DEWEY CLAIMS VICTORY" -- two star home edition.

(2) "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN" W/ the Upside down type in right hand Column  -- (City and Mail editions)

(3) "G.O.P. WINS WHITE HOUSE" -- (Suburban edition).

(4) "EARLY DEWEY LEAD NARROWS" -- (City edition).

(5) "DEWEY HOLDS NARROW LEAD" (Sports Final -- City edition) .

(6) "DEWEY AHEAD! RACE CLOSE" (Mail Final).

(?)"PRESIDENCY STILL IN DOUBT/ELECT STEVENSON, DOUGLAS".

(?)"DEWEY WINNER IN NEW YORK   two star home edition.

(11) "IT'S TRUMAN BY 150,000" (Flash 4 Star Edition)

This makes a total of 9 of the eleven Editions If You Have any or know the 2 missing headline PLEASE EMAIL US

              The historic photograph of President Harry Truman holding the Chicago paper proclaiming his defeat ("Dewey defeats Truman") defines political upsets. Truman was down in the polls and came from behind to beat Dewey and preserve the Democrats hold on the White House. Everyone had counted him out which lead to the Chicago Daily's erroneous headline.