Richmond Daily Times (Richmond [Va.])
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
607 issues from 1850 to 1853, published in Richmond, Virginia, digitised for Chronicling America.
Long before “Times” appeared in the title, the Daily Richmond Times began as the Daily Compiler on May 1, 1813. Originally published by Leroy Anderson and Philip Duval, the Daily Compiler was Richmond’s first daily newspaper. In 1816, Thomas Ritchie, editor of the Richmond Enquirer, bought and owned the paper until 1833, when he sold it to M. M. Robinson, an anti-Jacksonian.
Initially the paper comprised primarily advertisements, with only the second page set aside for news, mostly excerpted from other newspapers, but by 1835, the Compiler‘s non-advertising content expanded and improved. While ads continued to take up the first and fourth pages, the second and third pages contained news, poetry, obituaries, and congressional reports. The Compiler regularly endorsed one of the few literary magazines offered in the South, the Southern Literary Messenger, published in Richmond from 1834–1864 and edited by Edgar Allen Poe from 1835 until 1837.
A semiweekly edition of the paper, the Richmond Courier and Semi-Weekly Compiler, began sometime in the 1830s. From 1835–1844, the title of the semiweekly edition changed a few times before settling on the Richmond Times in 1844 and then the Richmond Semi-Weekly Times sometime in the late 1840s or 1850.
In April 1845, William Cabell Carrington joined William H. Davis as editor and proprietor of the Times and Compiler. On July 18, 1850, Davis announced his retirement from publishing and Carrington carried on editing and publishing the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Richmond, Virginia, 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