Bryan Morning Eagle (Bryan, Tex.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,647 issues from 1898 to 1909, published in Bryan, Texas, digitised for Chronicling America.
Originally settled by members of the Stephen F. Austin colony in the 1820s, Bryan, Texas, became an influential cotton-shipping hub in the early 20th century. Several newspapers competed for the area’s readership–which grew after the Houston and Texas Central Railroad reached town in 1867–but the Bryan Eagle outlasted its many competitors. The region’s preeminent paper today, the Bryan-College Station Eagle, traces its roots to this original publication.
Attorney Richard M. Smith began the Eagle as an eight-page Thursday weekly in 1889. A four-page daily edition, the Bryan Daily Eagle, debuted in December 1895. Smith sold the paper soon after its establishment, and by late 1894, Malcolm Carnes, W. P. Connelly, and Jess Parker controlled the Eagle, with Carnes serving as editor until his death in 1908. The Eagle solidified its influence in Brazos County by purchasing the Brazos Pilot–founded in 1877, also by Smith–after a fire consumed that paper’s office in 1909. Measuring 15 x 22 inches and costing one dollar a year, the evening Bryan Daily Eagle and Pilot reached 700 subscribers the following year. The paper was published under several names, but it ran consistently as the Bryan Morning Eagle from 1898 to 1909 and the Bryan Daily Eagle from 1895 to 1898 and 1918 to 1969.
The Eagle printed national and international newswires from the Associated Press as well as local reports. In its early years, the paper criticized blacks’ involvement in politics and supported white…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Bryan, Texas, 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