The Richmond Virginian (Richmond, Va.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
3,635 issues from 1910 to 1920, published in Richmond, Virginia, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Richmond Virginian began publishing in January of 1910, entering a competitive field that included but was not limited to the The Times Dispatch, The News-Leader, and The Evening Journal. As a result of the burgeoning newspaper publishing landscape, The Richmond Virginian appears to have been in search of a noteworthy identity. First published as a daily evening paper, after two years, the Virginian shifted to mornings and offered a slight change of design, news coverage, and focus.
Despite the array of publications clamoring for attention, the Virginian was founded by publisher, W. McDonald Lee and editor, S. B. Woodfin, who brought considerable experience and great confidence to the enterprise. Lee offered prestige and know-how just as he had with his previous endeavor, the Virginia Citizen out of Irvington, Virginia, where he worked from 1893 to around 1920. Prior to moving to the Richmond Virginian, Lee’s reputation had preceded him, having served as county Commissioner of Revenue and president of the Virginia Press Association in the late 1890s.
McDonald Lee also brought a strong sense of moral uprightness to the Virginian, with a devotion to total abstinence of alcohol and evangelical Christianity. The paper’s motto in the upper left-hand corner read, “A Clean Paper for the Home.” In its the salutary editorial it explained that, “The Richmond Virginian is the response to a demand for a Paper in Richmond of broad gauge, progressive spirit and high Morals; a paper…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Richmond, Virginia, 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