Evening Capital (Annapolis, Md.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
4,407 issues from 1884 to 1907, published in Annapolis, Maryland, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Evening Capital was the first daily newspaper published in Annapolis, Maryland’s capital city. William M. Abbott (1839-1912), a former compositor for the Baltimore Sun newspaper, commenced publication in 1883. In 1910, Abbott purchased the weekly Maryland Gazette from Colonel Phillip E. Porter and merged the two titles. William Abbott employed his daughter Emma Abbott Gage as the newspaper’s editor and his son Charles B. Abbott as business manager. The Abbott family sold the Evening Capital and Maryland Gazette to the Capital Publishing Company in 1918, which in turn was sold to Ridgely P. Melvin in 1919. In 1922, the title returned to Evening Capital. The Capital-Gazette Press Company acquired the paper from Melvin in 1926 and hired Francis O. White, Jr. as its managing editor.
In the years following the Civil War, Annapolis faded economically, although it continued as a center of boat building and other maritime industries. The presence of the state government and the U.S. Naval Academy provided some fodder for local journalism, but overall the Evening Capital chronicled the everyday life of a sleepy, provincial town. The development in the 1880s and 90s of Bay Ridge as a nearby bayside resort attracted wealthy families from Baltimore and Washington who used newly established short line railroads to escape the summer heat. The colonial heritage of Annapolis was the topic of coverage when the town celebrated its bicentennial in 1894, but the modern world intruded in…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Annapolis, Maryland, 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