Freie Presse Für Texas (San Antonio, Tex.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
11,564 issues from 1877 to 1918, published in San Antonio, Texas, digitised for Chronicling America.
August Siemering and Company published the first issue of Freie Presse für Texas in San Antonio, Texas on July 15, 1865. The company also founded the long-running English-language paper the San Antonio Express that same year. In 1851, Siemering emigrated from Germany and settled with roughly 100 other supporters of recent European revolutions, known as Forty-Eighters, in Sisterdale, Kendall County, Texas, where he taught, partook in antislavery activism, and worked as a jurnalist. Many of the Forty-Eighters in Sisterdale shared liberal political views, including support of abolition, and these attitudes were reflected in the Freie Presse‘s reporting and editorials. The Freie Presse became a leading Republican paper in the Democratic South, endorsing Ulysses S. Grant for president in 1868. Along with advertisements for San Antonio businesses, the paper covered a wide range of topics that increased its prominence and circulation, including national news, immigration concerns, and serializations of German novels and magazines. With issues printed almost entirely in German, the Freie Presse served the increasing number of German speakers in south Texas, especially San Antonio, after the Civil War.
Throughout its run, the newspaper was issued weekly, semi-weekly, tri-weekly, and daily. While owned by Siemering and Company, in 1876, the four-page tri-weekly paper sold for $7 per year with a peak circulation of 2,250, while the eight-page weekly paper sold for $3 with a peak…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- San Antonio, Texas, United States
- 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