The Times (Richmond, Va.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
4,072 issues from 1890 to 1903, published in Richmond, Virginia, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Daily Times commenced publication in Richmond on October 22, 1886. One of its competitors, the Richmond Whig described the paper as “a neatly printed little daily of twenty-four columns.”(Earle Dunford, Richmond Times-Dispatch: The Story of a Newspaper [Richmond, VA: Cadmus, 1995], 29).
Major Lewis S. Ginter, a local businessman, former Confederate army officer, and philanthropist, was the Daily Time’s first owner and operator However, Ginter soon sold the unprofitable paper to a business associate, Joseph Bryan, who would eventually transform the Daily Times into an advocate of industry, conservative politics, and traditional Virginia culture (Dictionary of Virginia Biography, s.v. “Bryan, Joseph”). In January 1890, the name of the paper was changed to the Times, and new imagery appeared on its banner. “We have,” Bryan explained, “thought the present a fit occasion to blazon conspicuously at our head the arms and motto of Virginia, having to ‘support’ them, her own greatest ‘supporters,’ Washington and Lee.” With Bryan at the helm of the Times, it is no wonder that Robert E. Lee’s image appeared in the banner opposite George Washington’s. The Times was the first southern newspaper to be set type by the Mergenthaler Linotype. Its front page, like that of other newspapers at the time, included social notes, advertisements, wireless reports on local and national events, and short news stories.
A scion of an influential Richmond family, Bryan had been wounded twice…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Richmond, Virginia, 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