Albuquerque Morning Journal (Albuquerque, N.M.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
6,070 issues from 1905 to 1922, published in Albuquerque, New Mexico, digitised for Chronicling America.
Albuquerque, New Mexico, is a settlement on the Rio Grande River, west of the Sandia Mountains. Located at the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad and at the junction of I-25 and I-40, the first post office was established in 1851 as New Albuquerque. In 1882, its name was changed to Albuquerque. Founded in 1706, Albuquerque was named in honor of Don Francisco Fernandez de la Cueva Enriquez, Duke of Alburquerque, 34th Viceroy of New Spain. In 1879, the New Mexico Townsite Co., a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, founded a new town in anticipation of the arrival of the first trains. Two Albuquerques and two post offices emerged, with the old town centered on the plaza and the new town on the railroad station. In 1886, the postal authorities designated the west station, Old Albuquerque, and the east station, New Albuquerque. Today, the entire area is called Albuquerque.
By the early1900s, enterprising businessmen had made Albuquerque the largest town in New Mexico. Thanks to its new trade and wealth, Albuquerque became the scene of the greatest newspaper competition in the territory. Between 1900 and 1912, six dailies and 15 weeklies were published. Founded in 1903, the Albuquerque Morning Journal was a Republican paper published by the Democrat Publishing Company. D.A. McPherson was the president of the paper, W.S. Burke was the general editor, and H.B. Hening was the city editor. The Albuquerque Morning Journal was printed daily in English. It claimed…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Albuquerque, New Mexico, 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