Pittsburg Dispatch (Pittsburg [Pa.])
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,461 issues from 1889 to 1892, published in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, digitised for Chronicling America.
After the great fire that destroyed much of the city in 1845, the Pittsburg Dispatch was one of the few profitable companies that formed in its wake, reporting on local, national, and global events from 1846 to 1923 to become one of the United States’ most popular daily newspapers, an honor bestowed upon the paper by a committee of newspaper publishers. The Dispatch was Republican in ideals, particularly in its abolitionist views, which matched the sentiment of the western Pennsylvania region. The paper was so influential that it was deemed responsible for the Republican Party’s success in Pennsylvania, particularly during the presidential campaigns of James A. Garfield, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Warren G. Harding.
The Dispatch was first published in 1846 by J. Heron Foster, and its May 31, 1846 report of Zachary Taylor’s army crossing the Rio Grande was the first Sunday edition of a newspaper in Pittsburgh. In 1865, Alexander W. Rook and Daniel O’Neill purchased half interest in the paper, and when Foster died two years later they bought full interest. After its building was destroyed by a fire in 1877, Rook and O’Neill took the opportunity to build a new office with updated printing technology that would double the size of the four-page newspaper. The Dispatch began to utilize the “perfecting press” method, which allowed printing on both sides of a smaller sheet of paper at once, a style unique to Pittsburgh and rare within the United…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 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