An Annotated Bibliography & Historical Research Guide to Handwritten Newspapers from Around the World
July 31, 2011
1902, Alphabetical Order, Children Papers, Pennsylvania, School Newspapers, United States, W, Youth Papers Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Pennsylvania
Frequency: Weekly (title?)
Volume and Issue Data: 85 pages total, ca. 1902-1906
Size and Format: Unknown
Editor/Publisher: Christopher Morley (1890-1957)
Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown
General Description and Notes:
One of five student newspapers in the Morley Family Papers.
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: The Morley Collection, Manuscripts, The Quaker Collection, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
July 31, 2011
1902, Alphabetical Order, Children Papers, Pennsylvania, School Newspapers, United States, W, Youth Papers Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Pennsylvania
Frequency: Weekly (name?)
Volume and Issue Data: Sometime between 1902 and 1906
Size and Format: 82 pages total
Editor/Publisher: Christopher Morley
Title Changes and Continuation: The Weekly Herald, sometimes just The Herald
General Description and Notes:
Student newspapers in the Morley Family Papers collection
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: The Morley Family Collection, Manuscripts, The Quaker Collection, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
July 30, 2011
1851, Alphabetical Order, Images, School Newspapers, U, United States, Virginia, Youth Papers Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Washington College, Lexington, Virginia
Frequency: Unknown
Volume and Issue Data: Vol. 1, No. 3, Friday, June 27, 1851
Size and Format: 7.75 x 12.5 inches; 4 pages, two columns per page
Editor/Publisher: L. Neal and R. Houston
Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown
General Description and Notes:
The paper was created and held at Washington & Lee University is misdated in their catalog. The “1857″ looks reasonable on the masthead, but the editorial on page two, “The Next Presidency,” says that the presidential campaign “of 1852 is about to commence.” Thus it appears the correct date is 1851, not 1857.
The paper contains story stories, news briefs, editorials, “city and county news,” “foreign,” poetry, “scraps,” and an ad for “job writing.”
Extant copy is very clear and legible–except for the date!
Information Sources:
Bibliography: Rockbridge Historical Society. Guide to the Manuscripts Collection of the Rockbridge Historical Society on Permanent Deposit at the Washington and Lee University Library, Lexington, Virginia. Lexington, Va: The Society, 1989.
Locations: Rockbridge Historical Society Collection, Special Collections, Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
July 30, 2011
1777, Alphabetical Order, Colonial Papers, Images, Pennsylvania, S, School Newspapers, United States Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Friends Latin School (later William Penn Charter School), Philadelphia, PA
Frequency: Unknown; first issue: “The great Want of a Weekly Newspaper and the Encouragement they formerly met with from you has induced me to publish the Students Gazette.”
Volume and Issue Data: 23 issues, 1777-8; first issue: June 11, 1777
Size and Format: Half sheet (roughly 4.25 x 6 inches)
Editor/Publisher: S.M. Fox, Friends Latin School, Philadelphia, PA (the editor’s name is on page two at the conclusion of the introductory editorial and in a news brief about school elections on page four)
Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown
General Description and Notes:
Full title: The Students Gazette Containing Advices both Foreign & Domestic; First issue, Wednesday, June 11, 1777.
Harwood claims that this was “America’s first student newspaper, published at Friends Latin School, Philadelphia, Pa., in 1777″ (p. 326).
Information Sources:
Bibliography: William N. Harwood, Writing and Editing School News (Caldwell, ID: Clark Publishing Co, 1977), pp 326-327.
Locations: The Morley Collection, Manuscripts, The Quaker Collection, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
July 30, 2011
1859, Alphabetical Order, Children Papers, Illinois, S, School Newspapers, United States, Youth Papers Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Rockford, IL: Union High School
Frequency: Unknown
Volume and Issue Data: 1859, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6.
Size and Format: (in numerical order) 14 pp., 19 pp., 16 pp., 15 pp., 32 pp. and 24 pp.
Editor/Publisher: Variable
Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown
General Description and Notes:
All issues of this paper are bound in one volume. Some pages are torn while others have ink so light that they are difficult to read.
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: Union High School, No. 2 (BV), Rockford, IL, in Manuscripts, Illinois State Historical Library, Old State Capitol, Springfield, IL
July 25, 2011
1869, Alphabetical Order, S, School Newspapers, United States, Utah, Youth Papers Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Smithfield, UT
Frequency: Weekly
Volume and Issue Data: Vol. 2, Nos. 1-6, Oct. 24-Nov. 28, 1869
Size and Format: 2.5 columns on 8.5”x14” lined paper, one issue with an extra 8”x10” and another with a 5”x7” poem
Editor/Publisher: Louisa L. Greene
Title Changes and Continuation: None
General Description and Notes:
Motto: “Remember Thy Creator in the Days of thy Youth.”
The manuscript paper, Smithfield Sunday School Gazette, was a weekly paper edited from Oct. 24 to Nov. 28, 1869, by Louisa L. Greene, who later became founding editor of the Woman’s Exponent, a Mormon publication for women. The Exponent was never an organ of the Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association, as the authors of The Story of the Latter-day Saints state on p. 336.
Copies of the Smithfield paper for the above dates are in the archives of the Mormon Church Historical Library in Salt Lake City. Content of the papers included news of Sunday School members and of the community, with some literary efforts by the editor and her helpers. The paper was distributed at Sunday School meetings. Greene would have been about 20 years old in 1869.
(The above information was provided by Prof. Sherilyn Cox Bennion, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California)
According to the Olsons, the Sunday School was organized in Smithfield on Sunday, April 15, 1866, with Francis Sharp as superintendent. There were 69 pupils in eight classes, with a teacher for each group….(40)
The Sunday School took charge of the May Day celebrations, the July celebrations, edited the Smithfield Sunday School Gazette, opened the first library there, and in general played an active part in the life of the Mormon community.
Information Sources:
Bibliography: James Allen and Glen Leonard, The Story of the Latter-Day Saints (Historical Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Deseret Book Co., 1976), p. 336; Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Olson, eds., The History of Smithfield [Utah] (Smithfield: City of Smithfield, 1927), pp.40-43
Locations: Mormon Church Historical Library Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah (Ms D 2918, Box 17, fd 17)
July 24, 2011
1871, Alphabetical Order, Children Papers, Michigan, S, School Newspapers, United States, Youth Papers Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Michigan
Frequency: Unknown
Volume and Issue Data: 1871
Size and Format: Unknown
Editor/Publisher: Unknown
Title Changes and Continuation: None
General Description and Notes:
Contained in the manuscript holdings of the Bentley Historical Library of the University of Michigan.
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: Bentley Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
July 24, 2011
Alphabetical Order, Children Papers, New Jersey, No Date, S, School Newspapers, United States, Youth Papers Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: New Jersey
Frequency: Unknown
Volume and Issue Data: No date, Vol. 1, No. 1.
Size and Format: 4 pages
Editor/Publisher: Henry A. Howe and Andrew M. Macy.
Title Changes and Continuation: None
General Description and Notes:
Extant, but may not be legible if copied.
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: Manuscripts, MG 25, New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, NJ
July 24, 2011
1824, Alphabetical Order, Connecticut, S, School Newspapers, United States, Youth Papers Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Hartford, CT, Hartford Female Seminary
Frequency: Unknown
Volume and Issue Data: Vol. 1, numbers 1-14 and Vol. 2, numbers 1-2, dated 1824-26
Size and Format: 64 pages total.
Editor/Publisher: Unknown
Title Changes and Continuation:
General Description and Notes:
Written by students at the seminary which was founded by Catharine E. Beecher (1800-1878), sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896).
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: The Stowe-Day Foundation Library, Hartford, CT
July 24, 2011
1827, Alphabetical Order, Faith-Specific Papers, Frontier Papers, Indian-Aboriginal Peoples Language Papers, Minnesota, S, School Newspapers, United States Leave a comment
July 24, 2011
1858, Alphabetical Order, California, Children Papers, Frontier Papers, S, School Newspapers, United States Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Downieville, California
Frequency: Monthly. Possibly only 2 issues
Volume and Issue Data: May 22, 1858, July 3, 1858
Size and Format: Unknown
Editor/Publisher: James A. Booth
Title Changes and Continuation: None
General Description and Notes:
Kennedy writes (p. 547):
“A boy named James A. Booth published a manuscript paper in Downieville in 1858. It was called the Schoolboys’ Echo, and was good enough to draw strong praise from Calvin B. McDonald, at that time editor of the Trinity Journal. McDonald only mentioned two issues of the Echo, although there may have been more.”
Information Sources:
Bibliography: Chester B. Kennedy, “Newspapers of the California Northern Mines, 1850-1860–A Record of Life, Letters and Culture,” unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, 1949, pp. 27, 40, 547, 599
Locations: Unknown
July 24, 2011
1864, Alphabetical Order, Children Papers, S, School Newspapers, United States, Wisconsin, Youth Papers Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Madison, WI: the junior class of the First Ward Grammar School.
Frequency: Unknown
Volume and Issue Data: Vol. 1, No. 2, February 5, 1864
Size and Format: 23 pages
Editor/Publisher: Charles D. and Clara F. Purple (he’s the same editor of Our Paper)
Title Changes and Continuation: None
General Description and Notes:
None
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: Newspapers, No. SC 2047, Archives, The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
July 22, 2011
1851, Alphabetical Order, Children Papers, Connecticut, R, School Newspapers, United States Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Granby, CT
Frequency: Unknown
Volume and Issue Data: 1851, several issues
Size and Format: Over 50 pages
Editor/Publisher: ”School boy editors”, William C. Case and Daniel E. Holcomb.
Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown
General Description and Notes:
Written by students and includes several issues all written in a ledger.
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: Salmon Brook Historical Society, Granby, CT
July 16, 2011
1857, Alphabetical Order, Images, North Carolina, P, School Newspapers, United States Leave a comment
The Plain Dealer (NC, 1857 or 1858)
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Wake Forest College, Winston-Salem, NC
Frequency: Unknown
Volume and Issue Data: No dates, but from dates found, it is from an issue of about 1857 or 1858.
Size and Format: Only 2 pages remain–no cover page.
Editor/Publisher: Unknown
Title Changes and Continuation: The Student?
General Description and Notes:
“The Plain Dealer” was the forerunner of the “Student“. Printing was done with a pen, very neatly, and very readable.
Information Sources:
The Plain Dealer (NC, 1857 or 1858)
Bibliography: “A Leaf from the “Plain Dealer.” The Wake Forest Student, April 1905, XXIV No. 7, pp.483-485.
Locations: University Archives, Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
July 16, 2011
1865, Alphabetical Order, Children Papers, New Jersey, O, School Newspapers, United States, Youth Papers Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Lake Hopatcong, NJ, Public School
Frequency: Unknown
Volume and Issue Data: 1865-1885
Size and Format: 22 pages
Editor/Publisher: “The young ladies of the public school in district no. 4.”
Title Changes and Continuation: None
General Description and Notes:
“The young ladies of the public school in district no. 4.” It is faintly written, in pencil or badly faded ink.
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, NJ
July 15, 2011
1827, Alphabetical Order, Faith-Specific Papers, Indian-Aboriginal Peoples Language Papers, M, Michigan, School Newspapers, United States, Youth Papers Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
Frequency: Weekly
Volume and Issue Data: The Muz-ze-ni-e-gun, or Literary Voyager (No. 4, Jan. 12, 1827-No. 11, ? 1827); The Muz-ze-ni-e-gun and Literary Voyager (No. 12, March 2, 1827); The Literary Voyager (No. 13, March 10, 1827-No. 14, April 11, 1827); The Muzzinyegun or Literary Voyager (No. 16, April 28, 1827)
Size and Format: Averaged 23 pages per issue
Editor/Publisher: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1826-1827)
Title Changes and Continuation: The Muz-ze-ni-e-gun, or Literary Voyager (1827); The Muz-ze-ni-e-gun and Literary Voyager (1827); The Literary Voyager (1827); The Muzzinyegun or Literary Voyager (1827); also cited as Schoolcraft’s First Literary Magazine
General Description and Notes:
According to Littlefield and Parins, The Muzzinyegun or Literary Voyager was a manuscript magazine devoted to the life, history, customs, tribal news of the Ojibwa Indians, as well as poetry, essays and information on western living and Mexican civilization. This was the second of editor Schoolcraft’s three handwritten publications, the first being a literary magazine published from 1809 to 1818, and the third being The Bow and Arrow (1833). The magazine circulated in Sault Ste. Marie, Detroit, New York and elsewhere.
Articles and other content were usually written by Schoolcraft and his wife. Objiwa lore content was supplied by Mrs. Schoolcraft’s brother George Johnston and their mother, the daughter of Waub Ojeeg, a Ojibwa leader. The reports published in The Muzzinyegun provided a basis for Schoolcraft’s later ethnological studies printed in Historical and Statistical Information Respecting the History, Conditions, and Prospects of the indian Tribes of the United States (6 vols.; Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1851-1857).
Information Sources:
Bibliography: Vernon Kinietz, “Schoolcraft’s Manuscript Magazines,” Bibliographical Society of America Papers, 35 (April-June, 1941), 151-154; Philip P. Mason, “Introduction” and Notes, The Literary Voyager or Muzzeniegun (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1962); Philip P. Mason, ed., The Literary Voyager or Muzzeniegun (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1962); David F. Littlefield, Jr. and James W. Parins, American Indian and Alaska Native Newspapers and Periodicals, 1826-1924 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984), 265-266
Locations: DLC; Danky and Hady; Reprint: Philip P. Mason, ed., The Literary Voyager or Muzzeniegun (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1962)
July 15, 2011
1858, Alphabetical Order, Illinois, M, Organization Newspapers, School Newspapers, United States Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Greenfield, IL: Greenfield Seminary
Frequency: Unknown
Volume and Issue Data: 1858
Size and Format: 28 pages
Editor/Publisher: Unknown
Title Changes and Continuation: None
General Description and Notes:
None
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: Manuscripts (SC 529), Illinois State Historical Library, Old State Capitol, Springfield, IL
July 13, 2011
1869, Alphabetical Order, Children Papers, L, North Carolina, School Newspapers, United States Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Wilmington, NC
Frequency: Unknown
Volume and Issue Data: 1869
Size and Format: Pen and ink journal
Editor/Publisher: Edward A. Oldham
Title Changes and Continuation: Unknown
General Description and Notes:
“In 1869 at Wilmington, N. C., so far as it has been possible to ascertain, occurred the initial awakening of amateur journalism in the South. At the age of nine, Edward A. Oldham, who was later to become a leading publisher of newspapers, weekly and daily, and a distinguished columnist and writer, produced his first effort in mimic journalism, a pen-and-ink journal, bearing the title of the Little Monitor, suggested by his having been selected as monitor in a private school, where he was among the youngest pupils. This little make-believe newspaper was issued often enough to intensify the young editor’s ambition to own a real printing press and to print a little paper. He had seen Benjamin S. Wood’s advertisement of the Novelty Press in his monthly copy of the St. Nicholas. In time he managed to earn money enough for the purchase of a press and type equipment, and in 1870 he published the Star of the South, four pages, each page 5 x 7 inches, printing one page at a time. This tiny journal set the pace for Southern boys, North Carolina boys particularly, and in that State there quickly followed the Boys’ Courier from New Born, with James M. Howard, Charles R. Thomas and Owen Guiort, as editors. The last named became a Superior Court judge, and Thomas rose to political prominence and became a Member of Congress from North Carolina for several terms, in the Nineties and later.” (The Early Pioneers of Amateur Journalism (Before 1876))
“WHAT HAS BEEN CHARACTERIZED as “The Mimic Press” had an early start in North Carolina. In 1869, at the age of nine, Edward A. Oldham, of Wilmington, is credited with producing the first “amateur newspaper” — the Little Monitor, a pen and ink folio, followed in 1873 by the Star of the South, miniature and type-set.” (Oldham, History of Early Amateur Journalism in North Carolina)
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Links: Edward A. Oldham, History of Early Amateur Journalism in North Carolina, http://www.thefossils.org/horvat/aj/states/NorthCarolina.htm; The Early Pioneers of Amateur Journalism (Before 1876) http://www.thefossils.org/horvat/aj/pioneers.htm
Locations: Unknown
July 13, 2011
1828, Alphabetical Order, Connecticut, L, School Newspapers, United States Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Hartford, CT
Frequency: Unknown
Volume and Issue Data: 1828, 2 issues
Size and Format: 4 pages and 4 oversize pages
Editor/Publisher: Hartford Female Seminary
Title Changes and Continuation: None
General Description and Notes:
Written by students at the Hartford Female Seminary founded by Catharine E. Beecher (1800-1878), sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896).
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: The Stowe-Day Foundation, Hartford, CT
July 13, 2011
1840, Alphabetical Order, Illinois, L, School Newspapers, United States, Youth Papers Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Monticello College, Godfrey, Illinois
Frequency: Unknown
Volume and Issue Data: 1840, vol. I, No. 7 and submissions
Size and Format: 43 pages
Editor/Publisher: Unknown
Title Changes and Continuation: Possibly later known as “Cobwebs”, 1862. Both are publications of Monticello College.
General Description and Notes:
None
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Locations: Monticello College Records (Box 9), Manuscripts, Illinois State Historical Library, Old State Capitol, Springfield, IL
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