St. Paul Tidende (St. Paul, Minn.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,006 issues from 1903 to 1922, published in Saint Paul, Minnesota, digitised for Chronicling America.
St. Paul Tidende (“Saint Paul Times”) began in 1902, when Christian Rasmussen purchased the Norwegian-language newspaper Heimdal (“Home Valley”) with the intent of re-establishing it as a newspaper for Minnesota’s Danish population. In 1887, Rasmussen had moved his publishing company from Chicago to Minneapolis and established what would become known locally as bladfarbrikken or “the newspaper factory,” publishing as many as 16 Danish- and Norwegian-language newspapers, as well as books and other print publications. St. Paul Tidende was a Danish-language newspaper, published as an 8-page, 7-column weekly, with an Independent Republican political affiliation. In its peak years, from 1914 to 1920, St. Paul Tidende had a circulation of 5,000.
In contrast with Minnesota’s largest Scandinavian immigrant populations, the Norwegians and the Swedes, the Danes were a much smaller and more diffuse group. Although the majority of Danish immigrants prior to 1920 settled in rural areas of the state, a significant number chose to live in the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. By 1905, the Danish population of Saint Paul numbered just over 1,300, scattered in neighborhoods throughout the city, with roughly another 1,400 Danes residing in greater Ramsey County. Many had come to Saint Paul in the 1880s to work on the westward expansion of the Northern Pacific Railroad and in subsequent years found work primarily as artisans and laborers.
St. Paul Tidende featured the same content and…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
- Language
- Danish
- 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