The Sun (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
972 issues from 1897 to 1901, published in Wilmington, Delaware, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Sun was a daily morning newspaper first published on October 25, 1897, in Wilmington, Delaware. It was founded by Clement G. Congdon who had formerly been associated with the Philadelphia Record. Congdon established a printing office on East Sixth Street in Wilmington by purchasing the plant of a defunct job printing office. He maintained the newspaper for approximately a year, and following the passage of the General Incorporation Act on March 10, 1899, he incorporated the Sun Publishing Company. Shortly after, Congdon was forced to sell the Sun‘s plant at a public sale in order to settle debts to both his landlord and newspaper employees.
A penny newspaper, the Sun consisted of a daily edition of four and a Sunday edition of eight pages. It was distributed throughout the city of Wilmington and employed agents to distribute throughout the state. As with other local newspapers, the Sun reprinted news of national interest including national trends such as temperance that had a local impact. The newspaper also included local items, including short selections of news relevant to all of the major towns in the state, religious and church news, organizational and club news, information on farms and markets, and news related to the happenings of Wilmington citizens. Unlike many other newspapers at the time, the Sun reported sports information on both the national and local levels.
Following Congdon’s financial failure, George W. Roberts assumed editorial control of the Sun…
- 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