The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.])
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
4,580 issues from 1888 to 1900, published in Seattle, Washington, digitised for Chronicling America.
Originally founded in 1863 as The Seattle Gazette only to be renamed The Weekly Intelligencer by new owner Samuel L. Maxwell in 1867, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (P-I) served as the region’s pioneering newspaper and Seattle’s oldest continually operating business. In a land rich with timber, minerals, and waterways, the P-I served a growing community of 150 persons in 1860. Having survived over 11 moves and more than 17 owners, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer as of March 2009 no longer prints news in broadsheet, but remains an active force in the world of digital publishing.
Soon after its creation, the Post-Intelligencer experienced a number of challenges and frequently changed owners for over a decade. After acquiring the paper in 1874 and publishing under the name the Daily Intelligencer, David Higgins resold the paper in1878 to then editor Thaddeus Hanford who quickly expanded the P-I while absorbing two rival publications: the Puget Sound Dispatch and The Pacific Tribune. The following year, Thomas W. Prosch and Samuel L. Crawford assumed ownership. Meanwhile, The Seattle Daily Post (also published on Sundays as the Seattle Weekly Post-Intelligencer) emerged as its rival. Unable to sustain both papers independently, Hanford merged the Post with the Intelligencer, becoming the Seattle Daily Post-Intelligencer and the Seattle Weekly Post-Intelligencer in 1881.
After the merger, Prosch managed the flourishing paper until its sale to a joint-stock company in early…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Seattle, Washington, 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