The Kinsley Graphic (Kinsley, Kan.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
738 issues from 1890 to 1904, published in Kinsley, Kansas, digitised for Chronicling America.
Established in 1890, the Kinsley Graphic stems from a long history of newspapers started in Kinsley, Edwards County, Kansas. The Graphic is a continuation of many local papers including theValley Republican, the Kinsley Graphic (first incarnation), the Kinsley Republican, the Kinsley Graphic (second incarnation), the Kinsley Republican-Graphic, the Edwards County Banner, the Banner Weekly Graphic, and the Kinsley Banner-Graphic, all of which were eventually were sold to, or consolidated with, the Graphic organ. Initially a Democratic title, the Kinsley Graphic became a Populist paper in 1891 before returning to its Democratic roots in 1910.
There was little difference between the Kinsley Graphic and its immediate predecessor, the Kinsley Banner-Graphic, which had been formed in April 1889 when new proprietors Henry R. Griggs and Ed Creviston took over the Banner Weekly Graphic. They changed its name to the Kinsley Banner-Graphic, writing to their readers “we will, from this time on, endeavor to give the public a neat, newsy and clean newspaper. In Politics, for the present, we are independent, but ‘neutral in nothing.’ We have always voted the democratic ticket, and should we remain in this business until another campaign opens up, we will be found fighting for the same cause.” A little more than a year later on May 23, 1890, the title changed again to the Kinsley Graphic with very little mention from the editors other than the local news column reading “The Graphic –…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Kinsley, Kansas, 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