Pennsylvanische Staats Zeitung (Harrisburg, Pa.)
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414 issues from 1866 to 1877, published in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Pennsylvanische Staats Zeitung was a weekly Democratic German-language newspaper in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, active from May 3, 1843 until September 14, 1916. With the exception of a three-year period from 1866 to1868, when production moved to Lancaster, the newspaper was based in Harrisburg. In 1887, the Pennsylvanische Staats Zeitung absorbed the Dauphin County Journal to form the Pennsylvanische Staats-Zeitung und Dauphin County Journal. Circulation statistics are not available before 1870, when the number stood at 2,430; but subscriptions peaked in 1890 at 4,167. Thereafter, they dropped to 2,000 by 1915, a year before publication ended.
This central Pennsylvania newspaper reflected the Democratic political sympathies of its German constituents. Directly under the newspaper banner were the words of Thomas Jefferson in German: “I have sworn on God’s altar eternal enmity against every form of tyranny over the human spirit.” The newspaper was originally edited and published by Edwin Wilson Hűtter and Jacob Baab. The latter, a printer who resided in Harrisburg and Lancaster, published a German edition of the Journal of the House of Representatives in the late 1820s. In the second half of the 19 century (probably immediately after the Civil War), the Pennsylvanische Staats Zeitung was acquired by Johann Georg Ripper and edited by William Strobel, who succeeded as editor and publisher from 1882 to1884. The newspaper was owned by Ernst Krest in 1885-86, before being…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
- 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