The Bridgeport Evening Farmer (Bridgeport, Conn.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,767 issues from 1909 to 1917, published in Bridgeport, Connecticut, digitised for Chronicling America.
The daily Bridgeport Evening Farmer, the Bridgeport Times and Evening Farmer, and the weekly Republican Farmer trace their roots to the publishing world of 18th-century Connecticut. This family of newspapers began in March 1790 in Danbury as the Farmers Journal and went through a number of name changes during the last decade of the century, becoming the Farmers Chronicle in 1793 and the Republican Journal in 1796. From 1800 through January of 1803, and then again after September 1803, it was called the Farmers Journal. For a few months from February to May or June 1803, under the leadership of a dynamic and determined editor named Stiles Nicholas, it was called the Farmer’s Journal and Columbian Ark.
Although Connecticut was a Federalist stronghold, the Journal-Ark, whose slogan was “Be just and fear not,” maintained staunchly Democratic political sentiments. In 1807, Nicholas was fined and jailed while defending the Democratic editor of another publication against libel. Nicholas still managed to write and print a pamphlet from jail, thus ensuring that the publication of the newspaper was not interrupted. In 1810, Nicholas moved his paper, now called the Republican Farmer, to the growing town of Bridgeport. Initially, the Farmer’s four pages were filled mostly with advertisements and national and international items drawn from other newspapers, usually about a month behind in date. In later years, the paper expanded to eight pages, and modern technologies such as the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Bridgeport, 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