Passaic City Record (Passaic City, N.J.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
920 issues from 1890 to 1907, published in Passaic, New Jersey, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Passaic City Record grew out of a publication called the Freeman’s Magazine and was first published as a four-page, six-column newspaper in 1890 in Passaic, New Jersey. It published weekly, initially on Thursdays, but on Saturdays beginning in May 1891. The newspaper was Republican in politics. Ozias S. Freeman was the publisher and editor. Freeman had established Freeman’s Magazine in 1877 at seventeen years of age and the Passaic City Record in 1890. The paper grew to have 2,300 subscribers and six pages.
Passaic had transformed from a small village to an industrial center in the years following the Civil War. Benefiting from its rail connection to Jersey City and from a newly constructed dam and canal along the Passaic River, along with its proximity to New York (twelve miles) and Newark (nine miles). By the time Freeman started the Passaic City Record in 1890, Passaic was established as an important center for the manufacture of textiles. By the last decade of the nineteenth century most of the immigrants to Passaic were from Italy, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and Austria-Hungary.
In June 1892, Passaic suffered a smallpox outbreak. It led to the erection of an emergency smallpox hospital constructed in seven days for a cost of $1,600. The local school also closed early for summer vacation, and on June 18, 1892, Freeman ran an editorial lamenting the willingness of the population to believe disinformation and how an effort was made to vaccinate as many people…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Passaic, New Jersey, 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