Every Evening, Wilmington Daily Commercial (Wilmington, Del.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,437 issues from 1906 to 1923, published in Wilmington, Delaware, digitised for Chronicling America.
The first issue of Wilmington Daily Commercial was published on October 1, 1866, and was the first daily newspaper published in Delaware. Wilmer Atkinson and Howard Jenkins arrived in Wilmington specifically to found a daily newspaper and established their headquarters near city hall. In 1871, Wilmington Daily Commercial faced competition from William T. Croasdale, a former city editor of the newspaper. Croasdale had founded Every Evening in that same year, publishing the first issue on September 4, 1871, and this publication soon became the leading newspaper in the state. This new challenge placed significant pressure on Atkinson and Jenkins. On March 31, 1877, Wilmington Daily Commercial published its last issue before merging with Every Evening to form Every Evening and Commercial. Every Evening and Commercial was published from April 2, 1877 to March 30 1878. With the April 1, 1878 issue, the paper was renamed Every Evening, Wilmington Daily Commercial.
Housed in an office on the southwest corner of Fifth and Market Streets in Wilmington, the newspaper expanded to an eight-column folio and cost two cents. In 1882, Every Evening, Wilmington Daily Commercial relocated to Fifth and Shipley Streets where a four-story building was specifically adapted for newspaper production.
In 1883, the Every Evening Publishing Company purchased the Daily Gazette and its weekly issue, the Delaware Gazette. From 1883 until 1902, a weekly edition called the Delaware Gazette and State…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Wilmington, Delaware, 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