How a strange face in a random 19th-century newspaper ad became a portal to a forgotten moment in ASCII art history. By Jacob Harris. Windell Oskay / Flickr. May 23, 2016. Share. Save.

The newspapers of St. Augustine's early American decades (1820s-1840s) gleefully reported election wrangles and insults. There was the short-lived Florida Gazette, the East Florida Herald, the ...

The newspapers of St. Augustine's early American decades (1820s-1840s) ... 19th-century ads featured groceries, ice, escaped slaves | SUSAN PARKER. Susan Parker. Columnist.

An analysis of old newspapers in the USA has highlighted the persistence of the enslavement and indentured servitude of Native Americans into the 19th century. Two researchers from the Annenberg ...

Why the news is going back to the 19th century. Skip to content Site Navigation ... Ads allowed newspapers to become independent of patronage and to build the modern standards of “objective ...

Classified ads in 19th-century newspapers were placed both by businesses seeking employees and by employees seeking jobs. “Situations Wanted” was the heading under which the latter category ...

How Victorian Explorers and Pining Lovers Used Coded Newspaper Ads to Communicate. By Ellen Gutoskey | "Let me get my ... But he wasn’t the only 19th-century innovator to use encrypted classifieds.

The first Austin newspaper to carry the hyphenated form ... At turn of 19th century, Texas and Austin’s newspaper began ... A good deal of the new space was taken up with display advertising, ...

So it went, at a time when the party apparatuses were as ruthless as any super PAC, the newspapers were proud to take sides, and outrageous charges went out in handbills, the precursor to TV ads ...

Anheuser-Busch bought front-page ad space in a May 31, 1886, issue of El Comercio del Valle in the special collections department of St. Louis Public Library's Central branch on Friday, May 23, 2014.

Newspapers published scandals and rumors, riling mobs and sparking frequent attacks on editors — often by other editors. Well into the 20th century, communities were still pulling newspaper presses ...