The Richmond Palladium and Sun-Telegram (Richmond, Ind.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
5,167 issues from 1907 to 1922, published in Richmond, Indiana, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Richmond Palladium was founded in Richmond, Indiana, by Nelson Boon in 1831, with its first issue published on January 1. Established as a Whig paper, Boon sold the Palladium to Thomas J. Larsh, who became its primary editor. While initial circulation numbers are not easily available, the Palladium‘s subscriber base grew by 500 between January 1834 and January 1835. The paper’s name changed several times over the following decades: the Richmond Indiana Palladium (1837-39) the Richmond Palladium (1839-1854), the Richmond Indiana Palladium (1854-55), and the Richmond Palladium (1855-75).
By 1856, David P. Holloway and Benjamin W. Davis were the sole owners of the Palladium, which had accommodated its political leanings to the emerging Republican Party. This new allegiance came with criticism of the Know Nothing Party and its presidential nominee Millard Fillmore for their pro-slavery sympathies. Holloway and Davis sold the paper to Isaac Jenkinson and Martin Cullaton in 1875, and within a year, the new owners divided it into the Richmond Weekly Palladium (1875-1905) and the Richmond Daily Palladium (1876-1904). By 1900, the weekly’s circulation was 2,500 and the daily’s was 1,800.
Rudolph G. Leeds acquired the paper through his mother, Jeanette Garr Leeds, in 1906, with the weekly edition renamed the Farm Palladium. Formed by the merger of the Farm Palladium, the Richmond Daily Palladium and the Richmond Sun-Telegram, the Richmond Palladium and Sun-Telegram started…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Richmond, Indiana, 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