The Potters Herald (East Liverpool, Ohio)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
645 issues from 1938 to 1951, published in East Liverpool, Ohio, digitised for Chronicling America.
Thomas Fawcett founded what is now East Liverpool in 1798 and named it St. Clair after the Governor of the Northwest Territory at the time, Arthur St. Clair. Colloquially it was known as Fawcettstown until its second platting by John Fawcett circa 1816, when it was renamed Liverpool. The prefix “East” was added at its incorporation in 1834 to avoid confusion among postal service workers with Liverpool, Medina County, Ohio. Located on the Ohio River near West Virginia. East Liverpool was a small trade post that soon gained a reputation for its many potteries. The deposits of yellow clay nearby attracted James Bennett, the first of East Liverpool’s potters, and many others in the trade, primarily English immigrants. Rather than compete with the other major group of unionized potters in Trenton, New Jersey, the potters of East Liverpool withdrew from the Knights of Labor in 1890 to begin a new organization, the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters. By 1938, the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters had seen a steady increase in membership in East Liverpool and its surrounding locale, and would eventually become the center of unionized potters in the United States and Canada. Even as tastes in pottery shifted away from the nearby yellow clay to white clay that had to be shipped in from out of state, East Liverpool’s numerous historically important potteries and convenient waterway access enabled it to retain enough notoriety to be known as the “Pottery Capital of the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- East Liverpool, Ohio, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress