Boletín Mercantil De Puerto Rico (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
8,581 issues from 1871 to 1915, published in San Juan, Puerto Rico, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Boletín mercantil de Puerto Rico first appeared on March 2, 1839, published as the Boletín Instructivo y mercantil de Puerto Rico, in San Juan. The Puerto Rico scholar Antonio S. Pedreira, in the voluminous El periodismo en Puerto Rico, underlined its importance as “a newspaper of transcendental significance in the history of newspapers in Puerto Rico”. The Boletín mercantil is regarded as one of the most important newspapers, second to the Gaceta, published in Puerto Rico during the last of the four centuries of Spanish domination on the island. It started as a bi-weekly publication, eventually becoming a daily paper.
The Spanish colonial establishment had two basic means of communication: the government’s Gaceta, and the Boletín mercantil, which was supported by and represented the prevailing Spanish commercial and land interests in Puerto Rico. The Boletínbrought to the forefront, from a conservative stance, the daily life of the Spaniards and their descendants in Puerto Rico. It served as an important resource to study the conservative pro-Spanish political currents in the colony. Even in the context of the military dictatorship imposed on Puerto Rico by Spain throughout the 19th century (stemming from the 16th century), the Boletín mercantil allowed space to a much wider spectrum of topics.
The point of view and interests of the merchants, who also handled finances (in the absence of banks until the 1890s) are reflected in editorials, articles, and position…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States
- Language
- Spanish
- 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