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Between the {Broad} Sheets

Happy birthday to The Daily Tar Heel

Today marks the 117th birthday of The Daily Tar Heel, and we're celebrating with our annual tradition: placing a piece of cake on the grave of our most celebrated alumnus, Charles Kuralt, in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery. Here's his first story, by the way.

But we also had a little bit of fun recreating the first known picture of DTH staffers, taken of the founding editors in 1893. Here's the original:

And here's our remake:

Happy birthday!

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