<P> Unlike The New York Times online archive, the TimesMachine presents scanned images of the actual newspaper . All non-advertising content can be displayed on a per - story basis in a separate PDF display page and saved for future reference . The archive is available to New York Times subscribers, home delivery and / or digital . </P> <P> Because of holidays, no editions were printed on November 23, 1851; January 2, 1852; July 4, 1852; January 2, 1853; and January 1, 1854 . </P> <P> Because of strikes, the regular edition of The New York Times was not printed during the following periods: </P> <Ul> <Li> December 9, 1962, to March 31, 1963 . Only a western edition was printed because of the 1962--63 New York City newspaper strike . </Li> <Li> September 17, 1965, to October 10, 1965 . An international edition was printed, and a weekend edition replaced the Saturday and Sunday papers . </Li> <Li> August 10, 1978, to November 5, 1978 . A multi-union strike shut down the three major New York City newspapers . No editions of The New York Times were printed . Two months into the strike, a parody of The New York Times called Not The New York Times was distributed in the city, with contributors such as Carl Bernstein, Christopher Cerf, Tony Hendra and George Plimpton . </Li> </Ul>

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