The Birmingham Age-Herald (Birmingham, Ala.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
8,481 issues from 1902 to 1925, published in Birmingham, Alabama, digitised for Chronicling America.
Birmingham’s The Daily Age-Herald was first published on November 8, 1888, a result of a merger between the Birmingham Iron Age, founded by Charles Roberts and Frank A. Duval in 1874,and The Daily Herald, a rival newspaper founded by William Pinckard and Frank O’Brien in 1887. Pinckard, a lawyer and an early industrialist in the young city, retained ownership of the paper, while O’Brien, a businessman and, later, Birmingham mayor, acted as the editor and manager.
While the paper functioned as a mouthpiece for the Democratic Party, it covered the rise of the Populist movement in Alabama, which coincided with the Birmingham Age-Herald‘s birth. Of particular interest is the coverage of Reuben F. Kolb’s bid for governor in 1894, in which the paper stated, “Scat! That’s What the People Said to Captain Kolb!” (Volume 20, Number 228). The paper also covered the industrial rise of Birmingham in its early years; the establishment of the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company occurred in the same year as the first issues of the Birmingham Age-Herald. During the “New South” era of the late nineteenth century, Birmingham emerged as an industrial center because of the close proximity of iron ore, coal, limestone, and dolomite,the major components for creating steel and iron.
As with many newspapers during this time, the owners and the newspaper’s name changed frequently, and mergers were common. In 1895, the Age-Herald was sold to The Daily State, another young, rival newspaper,…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Birmingham, Alabama, 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