Seward Daily Gateway (Seward, Alaska)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
3,237 issues from 1923 to 1933, published in Seward, Alaska, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Seward Gateway served citizens of Seward as a news fixture for nearly 40 years. Readers may encounter some difficulty in parsing the paper’s many changes in name and frequency, especially because the earliest edition of the Seward Gateway, which begat the Seward Weekly Gateway, ran concurrent to the Daily Gateway and, later, the Seward Daily Gateway.
Purchased by Frank and John Ballantine and published weekly by Editor Randall Kemp starting in August of 1904 (a definitive date is unclear), the first iteration of the Seward Gateway lasted one year before changing its name to the Seward Weekly Gateway in 1905. Its publication coincided with the first arrival of the Alaska Central Railroad at Seward, and its writing staff included a number of veteran journalists from Alaska papers throughout the territory. By the August 14, 1914 issue, however, Kemp changed the paper’s name to the Seward Gateway and chose to publish weekly and daily issues concurrently under the same title.
The 1913 edition of the Seward Gateway, edited by E. O. Sawyer, started as a continuation of the Seward Daily Gateway. Bernie Stone, originally from New Zealand, published and edited the Seward Gateway in 1914. The February 1, 1917 issue absorbed the Alaska Evening Post and became the Seward Gateway and the Alaska Evening Post, which lasted until 1918 and later changed its name to the Seward Gateway Daily Edition and the Alaska Weekly Post.
A violent rainstorm struck Seward in 1917, flooded the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Seward, Alaska, 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