The Daily Herald (New-Haven [Conn.])
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,047 issues from 1833 to 1841, published in New Haven, Connecticut, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Daily Herald, later the New-Haven Daily Herald, was the first daily paper established in Connecticut. Averaging four pages per issue, the Herald covered local and political news from a Whig perspective, following politics closely and reporting on elections in detail. Subscriptions cost $5 per year.
Established in 1832 by T. G. Woodward, the Daily Herald changed titles in 1841 when Woodward partnered with John Bennett Carrington Sr. (1811-1882), a prominent local journalist whose family had been in the newspaper business for generations. The Carrington Publishing Company, established in 1884 by Carrington’s son, John B. Carrington (1849-1929), went on to publish the Daily Morning Journal and Courier (1894-1907) and its later iterations, influencing the intellectual landscape in New Haven through 1973. The younger Carrington served at times as director of the Fair Haven and Westville Railroad, director of the National Savings Bank, and director of the Connecticut Company.
Front-page coverage in the Daily Herald included schedules for the newly developed Hartford and New-Haven Railroad, which, with an 1833 charter, was the first railroad line developed in the state of Connecticut. Upon merging with the New York and New Haven Railroad, it became the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad in 1872, also known simply as the “New Haven.” The consolidated railroad system would dominate railroad transportation in Southern New England until 1968, and the Herald covered its…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- New Haven, 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