The Daily Alaska Citizen (Fairbanks, Alaska)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
168 issues from 1918 to 1920, published in Fairbanks, Alaska, digitised for Chronicling America.
Written in Fairbanks and published on a weekly basis, the Alaska Citizen provided readers global wire service, as well as news from throughout the interior. Its front pages often included illustrations by hand, usually of a political nature. According to its publisher block from 1914, the Citizen billed itself as “Democratic in Policy” and “The only Democratic paper published in interior Alaska,” based on editor J. Harmon Caskey’s own family history. After his uncle, Ohio governor Judson Harmon, ran for president in 1912 but lost the Democratic nomination to Woodrow Wilson, Caskey himself was elected to Alaska’s Fourth Division Democratic Committee in Fairbanks and sought to produce a paper that reflected his political beliefs.
The start of the paper remains in dispute. While the earliest microfilm holdings of the Alaska Citizen place May 8, 1911, as its start, Judge James Wickersham’s A Bibliography of Alaskan Literature lists the first issue of the Alaska Citizen as March 6, 1910, noting that its run ended January 26, 1920. The October 12, 1914 issue of the Citizen was the “Tanana Special Terminal Edition” and listed Tanana, Alaska, as the location of the paper.
Due to its change in frequency, the paper underwent a change in title and a daily paper splintered off, the Daily Alaska Citizen, which ran from July 1, 1916, until January 30, 1920. Between September 11 and October 21, 1917, the paper was called the Weekly Alaska Citizen.
The overlap in editors and management…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Fairbanks, Alaska, 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