The Alaska Daily Empire (Juneau, Alaska)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
4,340 issues from 1912 to 1926, published in Juneau, Alaska, digitised for Chronicling America.
Still published today as the Juneau Empire, the Alaska Daily Empire published its first issue on November 2, 1912. Major John Franklin Alexander (J.F.A.) Strong owned the Empire, among several prominent newspapers, prior to his term as territorial governor of Alaska. Strong’s tenure as editor lasted until May 24, 1913, before John W. Troy took over as late as 1925.
The Empire‘s editorial style and political affiliation clashed with its socialist rivals at the Alaska Sunday Morning Post; the paper sought to unseat “Bull Moose” Republican James Wickersham from the congressional delegation by any means possible. To monopolize news coverage for the Southeast Alaska area, the Empire subscribed to both the morning and evening Associated Press wire coverage, which started during Strong’s leadership. When asked by the Associated Press to bequeath morning wire coverage to the new Alaska Daily Capital, a rival paper launched March 5, 1920, by editor Charlie Herron, Strong refused.
The paper then became the Daily Alaska Empire, which ran from December 8, 1926, until July 21, 1964. The paper called itself the Juneau Alaska Empire from July 22, 1964, through July 8, 1968, before switching to the Southeast Alaska Empire until February 8, 1980. The paper then changed its name to the Juneau Empire, as it remains today.
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Juneau, Alaska, 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