Tägliches Cincinnatier Volksblatt (Cincinnati [Ohio])
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,581 issues from 1910 to 1918, published in Cincinnati, Ohio, digitised for Chronicling America.
In the early 1800s, Cincinnati, the seat of Hamilton County in southwest Ohio, was home to a vast population of German-speaking immigrants. The Tägliches Cincinnati Volksblatt (People’s Daily Journal) was one of the nearly 200 German-American publications available during this time. Established in 1836 as Das Volksblatt, the paper became one of the most popular German-American newspapers in the Midwest and was the only daily German-language newspaper for almost a decade. When the paper started, the Volksblatt openly supported the Democratic ideology. Andrew Jackson’s political party made this decision easy because some of his policies were geared towards the immigrant community. The paper would eventually shun political favoritism and become Independent in 1872 to remain neutral to an ever-growing reader base.
Serving as the mouthpiece for the German community, the Volksblatt informed its readers on local and national news, as well as offering a healthy dose of European news, as many people still had family overseas, keeping them apprised of the happenings in the homeland. The paper was published entirely in German, with the exception of some advertisements and the occasional article. By 1910, Cincinnati’s two leading German-language newspapers, the Volksblatt and the Cincinnatier Freie Presse, had a combined circulation of 110,000. This is attributed to the fact that more than half of the city’s population at this time was of German heritage.
The Volksblatt fell on hard…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Cincinnati, Ohio, 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