El Nuevo Mexicano (Santa Fe, 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.
854 issues from 1900 to 1922, published in Santa Fe, New Mexico, digitised for Chronicling America.
El Nuevo Mexicano was a Spanish-language newspaper launched by the publishers of the Santa Fe Daily New Mexican in the capital city of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Produced once each week, it came in four pages on Saturdays. An annual subscription cost $2.50. It served Spanish speakers in New Mexico for over 60 years, beginning on August 2, 1890. The last issue appeared on April 30, 1958.
During the 1890s, there was a good market for Spanish-language newspapers in New Mexico. The territory boasted 35 Spanish-language and 11 bilingual newspapers. Prior to the debut of El Nuevo Mexicano, the New Mexican regularly published some articles in Spanish. Responding to the popularity of news produced in Spanish, New Mexican general manager, Max Frost, switched from including Spanish-language pages in the New Mexican to producing the separate publication, El Nuevo Mexicano.
Frost, one of the most influential newspaper editors in the territory, became publisher of the New Mexican in 1889. Beginning in 1890, he ran both the English and Spanish-language newspapers. He also served as territorial adjutant general and a member of the Republican central committee. Frost’s close ties with the Republican Party, which then held power in New Mexico, assured that his printing press had a monopoly on all public printing in the territory.
Editorially, El Nuevo Mexicano was decidedly Republican. The first issue declared, “Nuestro periodico será acérrimo defensor de los principios del partido…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
- 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