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Newspapers

DeGolyer Library has over 2,000 newspaper titles, from single issues to unbroken runs of 50 years or more. Highlights include:

• The Deseret News, the first newspaper printed in Salt Lake City, which we hold from 1850-1878.
• Harmon News (Harmon, Tex., 1902-1905), an amateur newspaper published and printed by Jesse F. Drummond, “editor and prop.” Drummond was 14 years old when he established the only newspaper in this Lamar County village.
• Woman’s Journal (Boston, 1870-1910), a significant document in women’s history and the suffrage movement.
• The Banner of Light (1862-1900), an essential source on the Spiritualist movement of the nineteenth century.

Foreign holdings include the only known copy of the first newspaper printed in San Miguel de Allende, Le Ballon Poste (Paris, 1870-1871), the first “airmail edition” of any newspaper, distributed by balloon, and The London Chronicle, a source not only for English history but also for European and international affairs as well.

Periodicals

DeGolyer Library holds several hundred journals, most in the fields of western history (Southwestern Historical Quarterly), railroad history (the UP Streamliner), the history of photography (Stereo World), and bibliography (Book History). Also held are humor publications, trade publications, and literary magazines.

Historical titles range from scholarly society journals including Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (London, 1666-1860) to 20th century pulp magazines, like Ranch Romances (Chicago, 1929-1955).

Highlights include:

• Religious periodicals The Nevada Pulpit (Carson, Nev., 1874) and the Pacific Christian Advocate (Portland, Ore., 1884).
• Business journals Merchants’ Intelligencer and New York Weekly Record of General Information, Business, and Amusement (New York, 1833)
• Agricultural bulletins The Texas Wool Grower (Ft. Worth, Tex., 1883-1884) and The Cattleman (Fort Worth, 1914- ).