Deming Graphic (Deming, N.M.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
981 issues from 1903 to 1921, published in Deming, New Mexico, digitised for Chronicling America.
Deming, located in southwestern New Mexico, grew out of railway development. The terminus of the Southern Pacific Railroad, it was named after the wife of a railway executive. City founders expected such immense growth after the arrival of the railroad that the town was nicknamed New Chicago. The Silver Spike was driven in Deming in 1881 to commemorate the completion of the second transcontinental railroad with the meeting of the Southern Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. Journalistic competition quickly followed.
The Deming Graphic commenced weekly publication on March 18, 1903, and continued through January 1, 1949, when it merged with the Deming Headlight. It was then published on Tuesdays as the the Deming Headlight and Deming Graphic and on Fridays as the Headlight and the Deming Graphic until April 10, 1956, when the two papers returned to separate titles. The Deming Graphic was printed almost exclusively in English despite the fact that the town was only about 45 miles north of the border with Mexico.
By the end of the 19th century, the Deming Headlight had become a leading territorial Democratic paper under the editorship of former Governor Edmund Gibson Ross, and later, William B. Walton. A weekly Republican challenger, the Deming Herald, began publication in 1900 as life-long Democrat P.J. Bennett changed his politics to compete with the Headlight. Bennett’s efforts did not succeed, and the Herald was replaced by the weekly Deming Graphic in 1903. The…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Deming, New Mexico, 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