Arkansas Echo (Little Rock, Ark.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,096 issues from 1891 to 1932, published in Little Rock, Arkansas, digitised for Chronicling America.
Little Rock, the state capital and Pulaski County seat, was home to one of Arkansas’s first German communities. In the 1830s, a German colony was established in Pulaski County, marking the beginning of German immigration to Arkansas. German communities grew through the nineteenth century, peaking in the 1880s.
The Arkansas Echo, an all-German language newspaper, began publication in 1891. It was published in Little Rock under the Arkansas Echo Publishing Company, composed of John Kaufman, Adolph Arnold, Andrew Rust, Father Bonaventure Binzegger, Friedrich “Fred” Hohenschutz, Herman Lensing, Charles “Carl” Meurer, J. P. Moser, and Nic Peay. The Echo publishers purchased an existing newspaper plant from Der Logan County Anzeiger (Logan County Gazette), run by Conrad Elsken in Paris, Arkansas. At the time of purchase, the Anzeiger had a circulation of 400 in Logan County, but on the direction of a Catholic priest in Little Rock, the newspaper plant was moved to Little Rock to reach a wider audience. In Little Rock, the paper was renamed the Arkansas Echo and the Anzeiger‘s subscribers were shifted over. The Echo was a Democratic, eight-page paper, originally published on Fridays with a circulation of 850 subscribers. Over the years, the paper grew to 1,300 subscribers.
The Echo had an unsteady start as their inaugural issue was sabotaged. Before the papers could be printed, someone broke into the Echo‘s newspaper office and destroyed the forms laid out for printing. Instead…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
- Language
- German
- 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