The Daily Manchester American (Manchester, N.H.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,431 issues from 1857 to 1863, published in Manchester, New Hampshire, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Dollar Weekly Mirror, later retitled the Mirror and Farmer, was a Manchester-based agricultural newspaper that ran from 1851 to 1918. The paper, considered by many contemporaries to be the most important newspaper in Manchester by the end of the nineteenth century, could trace its roots to the merger of seven different Manchester weeklies. The Mirror also had a long-running daily counterpart, the Daily Mirror and American, itself a merger of two dailies. At their height, the weekly and daily Mirror boasted the widest readership of any agricultural newspaper in New England outside of Boston, with a combined circulation of 65,000 copies.
While Manchester would grow into a major industrial hub by 1900, its agrarian roots meant a broad demand for agricultural publications in the mid 1800s. Thomas R. Crosby, a practicing Manchester physician, issued the first number of his new agricultural paper, the Manchester Granite Farmer, on February 26, 1850. In his first editorial, Crosby wrote: “We have looked to other places for our markets… and depended upon the journals of other sections of the country for our information. All this is now to be changed.” In January 1852, the Concord Farmer’s Monthly Visitor, a monthly agricultural journal put out by the late publisher and political figure Isaac Hill, resumed publication in Manchester with editor Chandler E. Potter. By 1854, the two papers had merged into the Granite Farmer and Visitor, later becoming the Granite State Farmer. In…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Manchester, New Hampshire, 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