Category: History of Our Newspapers

Introducing the Bradley Beam

The Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project is excited to announce the latest addition to Chronicling America from Connecticut, Bradley Beam! Before Bradley International Airport was Connecticut’s largest public commercial airport, it was a World War...

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...

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,...

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...

Stafford Springs Press

LCCN:  sn84022401, Tolland County Press, Stafford Springs, Conn. (18??-1883) LCCN:  sn92051501, The Press, Stafford Springs, Conn. (1883-1935) The Stafford Springs Press proudly traced its lineage from the first paper published in Tolland County, Connecticut....

Connecticut Western News

LCCN: sn84027718, Connecticut Western News, Salisbury, Litchfield County, CT (1871-1970) All accounts of the birth of the Connecticut Western News note that its printing press arrived in the small Litchfield County town of Salisbury...

The Connecticut Craftsman

LCCN:  sn92051251, The Connecticut Craftsman, Hartford, Conn., 193?-193?   The Connecticut Craftsman was an 8-page monthly newspaper devoted to the interests of “Organized Labor.” Calling itself the “Official Organ of the Connecticut Federation of...

Connecticut Workman

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...

American Mechanic and Home Journal

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...

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