The Manitowoc Pilot (Manitowoc, Wis.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
3,213 issues from 1859 to 1922, published in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, digitised for Chronicling America.
Manitowoc, Wisconsin, first sparked interest among European immigrants as a potential trading post. Located on the shores of Lake Michigan and south of the Door County peninsula, the area had attracted French settlers as early as the 17th century. The town of Manitowoc took shape in the 1830s, influenced largely by the lumber and, eventually, the shipbuilding industry. Manitowoc grew rapidly during the 1870s with the arrival of Bohemian, German, and Polish immigrants. Later, the town became well known for the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company. Founded in 1902, the firm employed as many as 7,000 people to build submarines during World War II.
In the early years, Manitowoc had several prominent newspapers. The weekly Republican Manitowoc Tribune was first published under that title in 1854 by Sewall W. Smith, who was joined by John N. Stone in 1857. The title of the publication was changed to Manitowoc Weekly Tribune in 1858; however, by 1866, the newspaper was again printed as the Manitowoc Tribune. The price of a subscription was $2, and the proprietors claimed a circulation of 650. The year following the final renaming saw a change in ownership. Julius Enert, Oscar B. Smith, and Walter Lyon ran the Tribune from 1867 until 1869, when Edward Borcherdt became proprietor and editor. Borcherdt was in charge when the Tribune merged with the Manitowoc Pilot in 1878. He shared ownership with John B. Miller from 1874 to 1875, during which time the number of pages briefly increased…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Manitowoc, Wisconsin, 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