El Imparcial (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,464 issues from 1918 to 1923, published in San Juan, Puerto Rico, digitised for Chronicling America.
The self-proclaimed “Diario de la tarde” (“the afternoon daily”), the newspaper El Imparcial (San Juan, Puerto Rico) was one of the main witnesses to Puerto Rican and international history of the 20th century. It began publication on November 1, 1918 and frontpage headlines included the end of the WWI, the actions of the Bolsheviks, their allies and their enemies after the Russian Revolution of 1917, along with the reactions and stances taken by the United States on these international issues. Much of the global news reported came from international services or correspondents. Additionally, El Imparcial offered translations of news content originally generated in English.
On a local level, El Imparcial regularly covered the US’s political and economic control of Puerto Rico. For example, in 1917 the Prohibition Law, known as the Volstead Law, was approved in a referendum (within the Jones Act) that prohibited the production, importation, and sale of alcoholic beverages both in the metropolis and in the colony. Additionally, the newspaper documented the repercussions of the October 1918 earthquake that affected two-thirds of the island, primarily on the western side of the island. Advertisements that ran in El Imparcial after the earthquate reveal how brands tried to exploit the disaster to sell their products. For example, one advertisement called on all “CAPITALISTS and owners” to observe that buildings made of Atlas cement were “left standing without a single crack”…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States
- 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