The Tacoma Times (Tacoma, Wash.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
4,276 issues from 1903 to 1943, published in Tacoma, Washington, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Tacoma Times was one of several West Coast papers founded by Edward Willis (E. W.) Scripps. Scripps’ approach was to provide minimal funding for printing equipment and facilities in small or mid-sized cities. Scripps left the day-to-day operation of his newspapers in the hands of ambitious young editors who were offered stock in the company. E. H. Wells, former editor of the Seattle Star, proposed the founding of the Tacoma Times in 1903 and was responsible for the paper in its early years of publication. Scripps was finally persuaded to provide $20,000 in capital to start the Times. He retained 51 percent ownership of the paper, with Wells holding another 25 percent. Wells launched the Times in a remodeled stable with used equipment from another Scripps paper on a shoe-string budget of $50.59 per day.
National content was distributed to Scripps’ newspaper chain through the Scripps-McRae telegraphic news service and combined with content about the local community created by the local editorial staff. In 1902, Scripps founded the National Enterprise Association, a service for distributing editorial cartoons, illustrations, and articles on specialized subjects such as fashion and sports. The Tacoma Times featured many of these graphics. Scripps’ newspapers served a working-class audience, and the Tacoma Times did occasionally cover labor issues between its lengthy descriptions of crimes and scandals. Significant events in Tacoma covered by the Times include the…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Tacoma, Washington, 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