The Evening Herald (Albuquerque, N.M.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,688 issues from 1914 to 1922, published in Albuquerque, New Mexico, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Albuquerque Evening Herald served New Mexico’s most populous city, located in Bernalillo County. By 1900, Albuquerque had 6,238 inhabitants and nearly doubled its population to 11,020 a decade later. Albuquerque expanded along with the railroads, including the New Mexico Eastern which by 1909 had extended the town’s trading area to the Texas state line. Newspapers in Albuquerque competed vigorously with fifteen weekly and six dailies produced between 1900 and 1912. Additionally, seven specialized journals drew their profits, in part, from Albuquerque. The Albuquerque Daily Citizen (forerunner to the Albuquerque Evening Herald) and the Albuquerque Journal-Democrat and their descendants were the largest newspapers. Neither proved dominant until 1905 when Thomas Hughes, editor of the Daily Citizen, because of his ailing health, sold the newspaper to several Republicans. Four years later, a group of Democrats combined the Daily Citizen and the Tribune to form the Tribune-Citizen. In just two years, the Tribune-Citizen went bankrupt and was sold to another group of Republicans who renamed it the Albuquerque Herald.
The Albuquerque Evening Herald commenced daily publication on March 7, 1911, and continued, with minor name changes, through June 19, 1926. It was succeeded by the Albuquerque Journal. Title variations included the Evening Herald and the Albuquerque Herald which was an evening edition of the Albuquerque Morning Journal. “Today’s news today,” the July 1, 1912,…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Albuquerque, New Mexico, 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