The Daily Banner (Cambridge, Md.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,047 issues from 1907 to 1922, published in Cambridge, Maryland, digitised for Chronicling America.
Cambridge, Maryland, is the seat of local government for Dorchester County and was once a thriving Chesapeake port town located at the mouth of the Choptank River, the largest waterway on the Eastern Shore. At the turn of the 20th century, Cambridge’s docks were full of maritime vessels. Most notably, a fleet of workboats, including the picturesque skipjack, delivered approximately one million oysters annually to the town’s numerous packing plants for shucking, canning, and shipping. It was in this environment in 1897 that Armistead R. Michie and Lindsay C. Marshall launched the Daily Banner, the first daily newspaper on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The next year, the Banner combined with a local weekly, the Cambridge Chronicle, under the ownership of Harrington, Henry & Company. Marshall remained editor of the Daily Banner until approximately 1910, when Edward F. Webb and his brother, P. Watson Webb, assumed ownership of the paper. The Webb & Webb Publishing Company also ran the Cambridge Record.
The pages of the Daily Banner preserve the record of Cambridge’s maritime economy. Local shipyards built the distinctive vessels that plied the waters of the Bay. Manufacturing plants processed and supplied products as varied as flour, animal feed, fertilizer, lumber, bricks, terra cotta, and steel cans. In addition to seafood packing, the town supported regional farmers as a center for fruit and vegetable canning with the Philips Packing Company, supplying customers locally and…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Cambridge, 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