The Washington Times (Washington [D.C.])
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
12,345 issues from 1902 to 1939, published in Washington, District Of Columbia, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Washington Times was founded on March 18, 1894, by union printers. On July 4, 1895, owners renamed it the Morning Times. Financial difficulties, however, soon forced the printers to sell to Charles G. Conn, a Democratic congressman from Indiana. On August 5, 1895, the Evening Times was added, and the two editions sold as a combined subscription. The morning edition continued as The Times from March 12, 1897, to June 29, 1901, before being renamed the Washington Times.
Conn sold the morning and evening editions in late 1896 to Washington Post founder Stilson Hutchins (1830-1912). In 1901 Frank A. Munsey (1854-1925), who was known for his consolidation practices and within the newspaper business as a destroyer of the dailies, purchased the paper and ran it from the Munsey Building, which he had built on E Street in the northwest quadrant of the city. Munsey ceased printing the morning edition in November, 1902, and his evening and Sunday editions became known, simply, as the Washington Times (not to be confused with the present-day paper of the same title).
Shortly after its founding, the evening edition soon became dominant, substantially surpassing the morning paper’s circulation. This late afternoon edition competed with the Evening Star as the largest daily in the capital city, both of them recording a circulation of over 40,000. The politically Democratic Evening Times covered local stories as well as foreign news culled from wire services. It often featured a…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Washington, District Of Columbia, 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