LCCN: sn92051612, Connecticut Workman (Bridgeport, Conn.), 1901-190? On its masthead, the weekly Connecticut Workman declared itself “Devoted to the Interests of the Workingmen of the State of Connecticut.” The Workman, which sold for...
LCCN: sn93053981, American Mechanic and Home Journal (Norwich, Conn.), 1849-18?? In its first issue, the American Mechanic and Home Journal, published in Norwich, Connecticut, by Ayer & Co., proclaimed itself “Bound to Advocate...
By Chris Gauvreau In August of 1922, New Haven-born intellectual and activist William H. Ferris (1874-1941) was elected to travel as a delegate of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) to Europe. There he...
LCCN: sn94053145, The Connecticut Citizen (Ridgefield, Conn.), 1892-189? On October 8, 1892, in an editorial entitled “Our Object,” the publisher of Ridgefield’s the Connecticut Citizen said, “with this first issue the weekly begins...
Audio recordings of articles from the Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project’s digitized World War I-era newspapers have been read aloud by volunteers at CRIS Radio as part of a project called Voices of World War...
LCCN: sn93053978, The Liberty Bell and Workingmen’s Advocate (Norwich, Conn.), 1867-186? The first issue of the weekly Liberty Bell and Workingmen’s Advocate, published in Norwich, Connecticut, appeared on March 7, 1867. The editor...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Gail Hurley (860 704-2222) [email protected] Contact: Robert Kinney (860 757-6668) [email protected] Date: December 1, 2017 NEWS Connecticut State Library Announces Newest Newspaper Titles Digitized (HARTFORD,...
LCCN: sn92051568, Mechanics’, Operatives’, and Laborers’ Advocate (Norwich, CT), 1836-1837 The Mechanics’, Operatives’, and Laborers’ Advocate, was published weekly in Norwich, Connecticut, by J. Holcomb in 1836 and 1837. It identified its audience as...
“’Struther Kannock’s Halloween” was “No. 43” in a broader collection called Tales of Ten Travelers. The author, Edgar L. Wakeman, was a prolific journalist and story teller whose http://<http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020358/1894-10-27/ed-1/seq-3/>works of travel and fiction were...
LCCN: sn93053856, The Stamford American (Stamford, Conn.), 1906-190? The Stamford American was a labor weekly published in Stamford, Connecticut. It appeared once a week and sold for 2 cents an issue; an annual subscription...