The Daily Herald (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
281 issues from 1886 to 1887, published in Honolulu, Hawaii, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Daily Herald was published in Honolulu every morning except Sunday from September 1886 to July 1887. In its ten-month history, it provided editorial comment mildly critical of the Hawaiian monarchy and published local news and commentary on all of the Hawaiian Islands–including shipping information, numerous ads, and foreign news garnered from imported newspapers. Honolulu in the mid-nineteenth century was a modern city. Just before the Daily Herald appeared, on July 21,1886, the ‘Iolani Palace Square was illuminated by electric lights(two years before electricity was installed in the White House), and in 1888, electric street lighting would replace Honolulu’s gas lamps.
During these years, there were 16 newspapers publishing in English in the islands (along with 18 Hawaiian and several bilingual and Portuguese titles). A Canadian, Daniel Logan, edited the Daily Herald. Logan assured his readers in the initial issue that despite the widespread belief that he was venturing into an overcrowded journalistic field, he intended to accommodate “those–we believe a very large proportion of the community–who desire an independent morning paper, one designed to exist only on its merits, and on which the public may always rely for unbiased treatment of all public questions.” Logan continued, “While independent in politics, the Daily Herald will not be neutral.”
Though Hawai‘i was an independent monarchy at this time, political and economic power was held by pro-American…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Honolulu, Hawaii, 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