New Britain Herald (New Britain, Conn.)
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5,008 issues from 1914 to 1930, published in New Britain, Connecticut, digitised for Chronicling America.
The New Britain Herald, a group of weeklies and dailies with title changes over the decades, has been publishing for almost 140 years. In 1877, R. J. Vance launched the New Britain Observer. Beginning with this date, the Vance family rose to newspaper publishing prominence, running the New Britain Herald and predecessor and successor titles from 1887 to 1995, when the Herald was sold to the Journal Register Co. of New Jersey.
In March of 1887, Vance was elected as a Democratic Party representative to the U.S. Congress and in September the Observer was absorbed by the independent New Britain Herald, now under the ownership of Vance in partnership with Frank L. Blanchard and James Cochrane. The newspaper continued as a weekly and a daily. While involved with the Herald, the elder Vance served as state commissioner of labor and mayor of New Britain. At his death in 1901, his son Johnstone Vance became publisher, and at Johnstone’s death in 1951, the title passed to his brother Robert C. Vance. He was succeeded in 1959 by his wife, Dorothy S. Vance. At her retirement, other members of the Vance family took the reins and led the company until its purchase in 1995 by the Journal Register Co., a New Jersey-based newspaper chain. Throughout this century of publication, the Vance family and the Herald were associated with public service.
The New Britain Herald matured as New Britain became a center of hardware manufacturing and one of the six major industrial cities in a highly…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- New Britain, Connecticut, 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