La Prensa (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.
3,065 issues from 1913 to 1922, published in San Antonio, Texas, digitised for Chronicling America.
On February 13, 1913, Ignacio Lozano, a well-known journalist from Mapimí, published the first issue of La Prensa in San Antonio, Texas. Lozano, along withthousands of other Mexican citizens, immigrated to the United States around the time of the Mexican Revolution seeking safety and prosperity. Lozano sought to create a politically-independent newspaper that would keep the Mexican-American population in Texas informed of current events in Mexico, providing a connection to the language and culture of their home country. La Prensa quickly grew to become one of the most widely-circulated Spanish-language newspapers of its time.
The appeal of the newspaper to Spanish speakers resulted in circulation stretching from northern Texas to Mexico, as well as to Mexican émigré communities throughout the United States and Central America. Initially published weekly on Thursdays, a daily edition soon followed in 1914. Within two years, the periodical boasted a circulation of 14,000 copies. Yearly subscription prices held at only $1 for the weekly issues and $5 for the daily issues through the 1920s, making La Prensa accessible to Mexican Americans who often struggled to find well-paying and dependable work in the United States. Contributions by several prominent Mexican-Americans bolstered the paper’s reputation. Among them were editorials by Theodoro Torres, Jr., a Mexican-American journalist and historian who eventually served as directing editor during the paper’s first decade. With…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- San Antonio, Texas, United States
- Language
- Spanish
- 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