Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
36,934 issues from 1854 to 1963, published in Washington, District Of Columbia, digitised for Chronicling America.
Evening Star was one of the nation’s premiere afternoon newspapers. During the Star’s 128 years of publication, it was considered the “paper of record” for the nation’s capital. Reaching its peak in circulation and national influence by the early 1950s, its pages were full of ads, political cartoons, and bylines from around the world. Between 1944 and 1981, Star writers, reporters, and cartoonists received 10 Pulitzer Prizes.
The Daily Evening Star began in December 1852, when Joseph Burroughs Tate, a printer by trade and captain in the District of Columbia militia, founded what was initially known as the Daily Evening Star. According to the 1850 US Census, Washington, DC, was a growing community of approximately 51,000. Other District newspapers were primarily concerned with politics. The National Intelligencer reported on Congressional activities, while titles like the Whig Standard served as mouthpieces for political parties and their candidates. Tate later said, he wanted a paper “dedicated to the interests of…the beautiful city of Washington, DC.” He borrowed $500 from friends and started printing the Daily Evening Star, published daily except Sundays. Tate was interested in following the example of papers like the New York Tribune that published stories of local interest, as well as national and international events.
Tate’s tenure was brief. In 1853, he sold the paper to William Douglas Wallach and William H Hope. Soon after, Hope left the partnership, and Wallach…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Washington, District Of Columbia, 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