As 2025 ends, we in the Digital Newspaper Unit thought it would be fun to look back at how newspapers celebrated the end of the year over time. Many Texas newspapers purchased mass-produced prints, some developed through chromolithography, to showcase elaborate front pages for Christmas or New Year’s issues in the early 1900s. The Newspaper… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Holidays
Happy 4th of July, from The Portal to Texas History!
This Fourth of July post comes to you from Ricardo Carter, one of the Digital Newspaper Unit’s newest student assistants! Ricardo is a fifth-year student at the University of North Texas, majoring in Professional and Technical Communication with a minor in Public Relations. Ricardo will eventually pursue a career in public relations, either with a… Read more »
Happy St. Valentine’s Day: Let’s Calculate Inflation
Have you ever thought to buy a pack of Valentine’s cards to give out to your friends and loved ones? If you hop into your time machine and set it for January 22, 1866, E. H. Cushing might help you out. Cushing published the Tri-Weekly Telegraph in Houston for a little over a decade, while… Read more »
Subscribe
