November 11, 1916 edition of the Mountain Echo newspaper printed on Cottonwood leaves sealed in plastic. Printed front and back. The front is shown here.
In 1916 Luther E. McQuesten took over as publisher of the “Mountain Echo” newspaper. Owed money by his subscribers, faced with the high cost of printing and a paper shortage, he printed four editions of the newspaper on, according to “The American Printer”, Cottonwood leaves. In the subsequent edition he printed the text of all four, for those who might have found the “fig leaf editions” difficult to read.
Catalog No: 2004-051-0027a