Indiana Tribüne (Indianapolis, Ind.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,909 issues from 1900 to 1907, published in Indianapolis, Indiana, digitised for Chronicling America.
At the time of the 1870 U.S. Census, Hoosier enumerators counted 78,060 German-born residents in Indiana, accounting for 4.6 percent of the state’s total population. In Marion County, with Indianapolis as county seat, the German-born population was 6,536, over 9 percent of the residents. German-speaking publishers in Indianapolis established several newspapers to serve these immigrants including the pro-Republican Freie Presse von Indiana (1853-66), the Indiana Deutsche Zeitung (1874-77), and two pro-Democratic organs–the Indiana Volksblatt (1848-75) and the Täglicher Telegraph (1865-1907).
In August 1878, Louis D. Hild established a new pro-Republican, German-language, four-page weekly titled the Indiana Tribüne. The Tribüne’s circulation of 800 lagged behind that of its chief competitor, theTelegraph, which had 3,200 subscribers. Several owners bought and sold the Tribüne in its first few years, before the Tribüne Company acquired it in April 1882, and under its management the newspaper prospered. The Tribüne had expanded to eight pages in 1881, and the new publishers added a four-page daily edition in 1882. By 1885, the Tribüne reported a daily circulation of 3,000 against the Telegraph’s 2,460. However, the Telegraph still claimed higher circulation for its weekly edition, the Indiana Volksblatt und Wȍchentlicher Telegraph, 4,420 to 3,500.
Mirroring the rise of the labor movement in Gilded Age America, the Tribüne began to shift its political allegiance in the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
- Language
- German
- 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