Daily Camera (Boulder, Colo.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,525 issues from 1897 to 1901, published in Boulder, Colorado, digitised for Chronicling America.
Boulder, Colorado, was founded during the Colorado Gold Rush of the late 1850s. In 1861, the University of Colorado was established there. Before white settlement, the land had been the traditional homeland of the Ute people since the sixteenth century. By the early nineteenth century, the Arapaho joined the Ute in the area; however, they were removed to the Cheyenne-Arapaho Reservation following the increase of mining and other white activities and the formation of Boulder County in 1861. Black settlers came to Boulder after the Civil War, as formerly enslaved people and their descendants moved west. The Colorado Central and the Denver & Boulder Valley railroads arrived in the 1870s, supporting the town as it became a center of commerce and education. By the early 1900s, Boulder was calling itself “the Athens of the West.”
The Boulder Daily Camera was founded in 1891 by Bert Ball and Frederick Patterson Johnson and printed on a press obtained from The Rocky Mountain News. It was absorbed in 1892 by The Boulder Tribune, which was owned by “Colonel” Lucius Carver Paddock and Valentine Butsch. The Boulder Tribune and the Camera continued as weekly and daily publications, respectively. They were published by the Boulder Publishing Company, the first newspaper incorporation in Colorado, under Butsch, Johnson, and Paddock. The Camera printed reports from the United Press and aspired to “give in brief all the news transmitted by this great agency.” It promised that “no pains are…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Boulder, Colorado, 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