Danbury Times (Danbury, Conn.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,414 issues from 1837 to 1870, published in Danbury, Connecticut, digitised for Chronicling America.
“Published on Main Street, Two Doors North of the Bank”
The Danbury Times was a weekly paper established by Edward Butler Osborne and published from 1837 to 1870. For the duration of its run, the Danbury Times cost $2 for an annual subscription.
Though the paper did not claim a Christian affiliation, issues often began with allegorical stories about Christian morality, essays on philosophy, or long poems, followed by subsequent pages covering local, state, and national news. Articles on popular science, jokes, and human-interest stories were also common features on the front page. The Times covered Danbury through the early years of its famous hatting industry (which earned Danbury the title “Hat City”), into the early years of the Connecticut labor movement as those hatters, many of them immigrants, sought better working conditions.
Advertisements were wide-ranging, among them dry goods and millinery, local professionals for hire including doctors and lawyers, and trade-specific products for hatters, e.g. wool hat bodies and kettles for steaming hats. Advertisements and schedules for the Danbury and Norwalk Railroad followed its opening in 1852. Other notable content included coverage of the Mexican American War and the Civil War, with letters from the front lines published in full.
The first reservoir constructed in Danbury for the purpose of supplying the hatting industry with water was the Kohanza Reservoir, which froze and consequently burst on January 31, 1869.…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Danbury, Connecticut, 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