Last month we announced that newspaper titles to be digitized during this phase of our project had been selected. Today, we would like to provide you a sneak peek of the type of content you will be able to delve into from Florida once it is digitized and uploaded to Chronicling America.
Explore the highlights below and stay tuned for future updates!
First up, the Miami Times.
- Place of publication: Miami, FL
- Publication dates: 1923 – current
- Dates selected for digitization: 1948-1957?
The Miami Times began publication in 1923 and coined itself “Florida’s favorite colored weekly”, serving the African American community. For some time, its masthead included a quote in Latin – “Tempora Mutantur, Et Nos Mutamur In Illis”, which translates as “The time are changed and we changed with them”. This weekly published recurring sections as such Vital Statistics, ‘Round the Town, See You In Church, and Fashion Flair. It published a news on a variety of topics, on the local, national, and international level. Here are some of the type of news you will find in this newspaper:
Next, we have the Southern Jewish Weekly.
- Place of publication: Jacksonville, FL
- Publication dates: 1939-1992
- Dates selected for digitization: 1939-1941, 1945-1956
The Southern Jewish Weekly is the result of the Florida Jewish News and the Jewish Citizen combining to form a new publication. Starting in 1939, this new publication coined itself as the “oldest and most widely circulated Jewish publication in this territory”, serving the southeast region. It is an “independent weekly serving American citizens of Jewish faith”, and one that opposed “communism, fascism, and Nazism”. Below are snippets highlighting some of the type of content you can find in this publication:
We are also digitizing the Evening leader.
- Place of publication: Tarpon Springs, FL
- Publication dates: 191?-19??
- Dates selected for digitization: 1914-1919
This newspaper was published in Tarpon Springs, a city that has historically been home to a large Greek community. It provides coverage of local, national, and international news. Types of content found include coverage of local travel reports and social happenings, entertainment, agriculture, weather reports, local and state politics, and tons of WWI coverage. Here are some examples:
And last, but certainly not least, the Diario las Américas.
- Place of publication: Miami, FL
- Publication dates: 1953-current
- Dates selected for digitization: 1953-1963
Diario las Américas is a Hispanic newspaper, which historically printed primarily in Spanish. It’s mission was to publish a newspaper “por un major entiendamiento entre las America”/”For a better understanding between the Americas”. It covered news about the local Hispanic community, as well as news on global scale from the Caribbean and Latin America.
In this newspaper, you can explore news content such as:
There are also recurring sections that like poems and puzzles.
Early in its publication, the Diario also published two weekly supplements:
- the Hemisferio (Hemisphere), a magazine-style supplement that provided bilingual stories from Florida and across the Caribbean and Latin America
- Historietas en colores – Spanish-language, 4-page comics section
