PRIMARY SOURCES : NEWSPAPERS

Newspapers are like time capsules, often presenting a wide range of material about a particular place at a particular time. Articles, editorials and advertisements speak of the political, economic, social and cultural environment in which they were written. Keep in mind that newspapers are assembled from a particular viewpoint and are not all-inclusive.

Dinah McIntire obituary
Intelligencer & Weekly Advertiser (May 15, 1819)

Advertisement for Stephen Smith's lumberyard
Columbia Spy (August, 1834)

Rioting in Columbia
Columbia Spy (September 6, 1834)

"Horrible Murder: The Fruits of the Doctrines Advocated by Johnson and Stevens"
Lancaster Intelligencer (September 16, 1851)

"The Christiana Tragedy"
Lancaster Intelligencer (September 23, 1851)

Recruits for 54th Massachusetts Volunteers
Columbia Spy (March 21, 1863)

Obituary of Stephen Smith
Intelligencier Journal (November 15, 1873)

Advertisements for runaway slaves (coming soon)

"He Died Unknown"
Baltimore Sun (September 11, 1955)
Moores Memorial Library, Christiana, Pa.