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Women Sought the Vote in “Porto Rico,” 1919 In the early twentieth century, Connecticut newspapers regularly reported on politics in Puerto Rico. This included the news around the fight for the woman’s...
Author: Christine Gauvreau
Connecticut Labor Press/News
LCCN: sn92051282, The Connecticut Labor Press (New Haven, Conn.), 191?-1921 LCCN: sn92051283, The Connecticut Labor News (New Haven, Conn.), 1921-1925 The masthead of the Connecticut Labor Press of 1920 declared the 3-cent weekly...
Connecticut Recognizes Labor Day
Check out the new online display of historic Labor Day souvenir ribbons and great clips from digitized historic Connecticut state newspapers! It can be found on the website of the Connecticut History Museum at...
A Slavonian Labor Day in Bridgeport, 1914
The range of events on Labor Day in Connecticut in 1914 included those special to the immigrants who made up a large percentage of the workforce. In Bridgeport, hundreds of Slavonians gathered at Sokol...
The Examiner and the Weekly Examiner
LCCN: sn86077047, The Examiner, Hartford, Conn., 1881-188? LCCN: sn92051407, The Weekly Examiner, Hartford, Conn., 188?-190? LCCN: sn92051523, The Labor Standard, Hartford, Conn., 1908-192? A cooperative association “comprising individuals of various creeds, professions, and...
The Hartford Chronicle Family
LCCN: sn95063011, Hartford-Springfield Chronicle (Springfield, Mass.), 1940-194? LCCN: sn92051342, Hartford Chronicle (Hartford, Conn.), 194?-1947 LCCN: sn92051345, Connecticut Chronicle (Hartford, Conn.) 194?-194? LCCN: sn92051343, New England Bulletin (Hartford, Conn.) 1949-19?? On March 26, 1949,...
Introducing the Hartford Chronicle Family of African American Newspapers
The Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project is soon to digitize historical state African American weeklies from the World World II era. On March 26, 1949, Editor Ernie Durham and President George W. Goodman of the...
The Labor Standard
LCCN: sn92051523, The Labor Standard (Hartford, Conn.), 1908-192? LCCN: sn92051407, The Weekly Examiner, Hartford, Conn.), 188?-190? LCCN: sn93059286, The American Standard (Hartford, Conn.), 192?-19?? The Labor Standard began publication of Hartford, Connecticut on...
The Workmen’s Advocate
Workmen’s Advocate (New Haven, Conn.), 1883-1891 [LCCN: sn90065027] On September 8, 1883, the New Haven Connecticut Trades Council published, for the price of one cent, the first issue of the Workmen’s Advocate. Its...