Abstract
The Daily Mirror is about to celebrate its centenary, no mean feat in a century that saw many other new titles launching and crashing, presses stopping in the night never to restart, and mastheads absorbed by rivals. The Mirror deserves its hundredth birthday and, no doubt, a telegram from the Queen. But one of the great stories of Fleet Street - that the paper pioneered newspaper illustration with real photographs and in doing so created press photography as we know it today - may be a myth, or at best a considerable exaggeration.
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