The Weekly Iberian (New Iberia, La.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,153 issues from 1899 to 1922, published in New Iberia, Louisiana, digitised for Chronicling America.
Founded in 1779 by settlers from Spain, the town of New Iberia was at the heart of Louisiana’s prosperous sugar-growing region by the 19th century. The area is perhaps best known today for its association with Tabasco hot pepper sauce, which has been produced at Avery Island, a few miles from New Iberia, since 1868.
The Iberian Publishing Association established the Weekly Iberian in 1894 after its predecessor, the Daily Iberian, founded a year earlier, failed to attract enough subscribers to justify a daily edition. A typical, small-town Southern newspaper, the Iberian carried miscellaneous news reports from around the world, brief personal notes (including, in the 1890s, biographical sketches of prominent locals), the minutes of the Iberia Parish school board and police jury (similar to county councils in other states), information on the Louisiana sugar industry, news related to local entertainment venues such as the popular Elks Theater, marriage notices, obituaries, and a wide range of general-interest essays. Around 1914, sheet music provided by the American Melody Company of New York was published. Issues dating from the First World War contain information on the war’s effects on life in Louisiana.
The Weekly Iberian was published until 1946, when it was again issued as the Daily Iberian, continuing under that title until 1964.
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- New Iberia, Louisiana, 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