From the exhibition
Polly Evans' Story Page for Boys and Girls
· January 31, 1909

This Sunday newspaper page combines text narrative with sequential photographs rather than drawings—an early hybrid between prose fiction and visual storytelling. The layout uses multiple image sizes and positions to guide readers through a story of children's activities in Paris, employing techniques that would become standard in comic strips: varied panel scales, captioned photographs, and integrated body text. The page demonstrates how newspaper supplements were experimenting with visual narrative forms in the pre-standardized comic strip era, mixing photojournalism with entertainment storytelling aimed at young readers.
Public domain, restored and presented by comicbooks.com public-domain