Omaha Daily Bee (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
15,230 issues from 1872 to 1922, published in Omaha, Nebraska, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Omaha Daily Bee, which historian Addison Sheldon in 1931 termed “the most successful and influential journal in Nebraska,” was established by Edward Rosewater, a native of Bohemia. The Bee began publication on June 19, 1871, as a temporary venture to promote local educational reform legislation for which Rosewater was a proponent. He later commented that he never intended the small publication to become a true newspaper, even choosing the name as a witty joke: The Bee would provide honey but with a sting. From its inception as an evening paper, the Bee expanded with morning, weekly, and other editions. They included the Omaha Daily Bee (morning edition), the Omaha Evening Bee, the Omaha Illustrated Bee, the Weekly Bee, and finally, the Omaha Bee-News, beginning in 1927. By 1875 the Bee had a circulation of 2,520. In 1882 circulation had increased to 6,100 daily and 16,000 weekly copies. The paper often featured reports by special correspondents who traveled around the state, and it carried national, regional, state, and local news. Eight columns and a simple text nameplate graced its design.
As an outspoken, but often insurgent, force in the Nebraska Republican Party, Rosewater was a colorful and controversial character, and the Bee’s impact on Nebraska politics from the 1870s to the 1910s was broad and influential. Although much of the Republicans’ traditional support came from business and railroad interests, the Bee frequently took anti-corporation and pro-labor…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Omaha, Nebraska, 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