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Title¶

• Ayer Annual¹
  • Content: Republican
  • Established: 1868/1876
  • Pages: 12
  • Size: sn83045610 (daily intelligencer - morning ed.) 24x36
    Note: these measurements seem to be for a spread rather than individual pages - documented reduction ratio based on 18x24
    ; sn83045610 (daily intelligencer - sat. ed.) 30x44;
    Note: Not sure what years these measurments cover or where they came from - LR 17x24 "24x36, 36x48 on Fridays in 1884"
  • Editor:
  • Publisher: Post Intelligencer Company
• Frequency: daily
• Coverage
  • Region: King
  • County: King county
• Unique ids
  • LCCN: sn 83045604
  • OCLC: 9563195
    

Digitization plan¶

e.g. 2010-2012 grant

• Plan to digitize 1876-1892 - 35 reels (UW) (originally planned 73 reels (to 1900) but ran out of room in grant)
• Title carried into 2012-14 grant cycle and will digitized all 73 reels 1876-1900. ss
  

History¶

• Preceding title:
  • The daily intelligencer. : (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881 sn 83045610
  • The weekly intelligencer. : (Seattle, Wash. Territory [Wash.]) 1867-1881 sn 84022788
  • Seattle weekly post. : (Seattle, Wash. Terr.) 1878-1881 sn 86072000
  • The Seattle daily post. : (Seattle, Wash. Terr.) 1878-1881
• Succeeding title:
• Related titles:
  • Seattle daily post-intelligencer. : (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888 sn 83045611
  • Seattle weekly post-intelligencer. : (Seattle, Wash. Territory [Wash.]) 1881-1888 sn 86072001
  • The Weekly post-intelligencer. : (Seattle, Wash.) 1889-1901 sn 86072003
    

Essay Draft¶

Originally founded in 1863 as the Seattle Gazette (LCCN sn86076446) only to be renamed the Weekly Intelligencer (LCCN sn84022788) by new owner Samuel L. Maxwell (1867), the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (P-I) served as the region’s pioneering newspaper and Seattle’s oldest continually operating business. In a land rich with timber, minerals, and waterways the Post-Intelligencer served a growing community of 150 persons in 1860. Today, having survived over 11 moves and more than 17 owners, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer as of March 2009 no longer prints news in broadsheet, but remains an active force in the world of digital publishing. Soon after its creation the P-I experienced a number of challenges and frequently changed owners for over a decade. After acquiring the paper in 1874 and publishing under the name The Daily Intelligencer (LCCN sn83045610), David Higgins resold the paper (1878) to then-editor Thaddeus Hanford who quickly expanded the P-I while absorbing two rival publications: the Puget Sound Daily Dispatch (LCCN sn84022793) and Pacific Tribune (LCCN sn88085109). The following year, Thomas W. Prosch and Samuel L. Crawford assumed ownership. Meanwhile, the Seattle Daily Post (LCCN sn87093452) (also published as a weekly on Sundays: the Seattle Weekly Post (LCCN sn86072000)) emerged as its rival. Unable to sustain both papers independently, Hanford merged the Post with the Intelligencer becoming the Seattle Daily Post-Intelligencer(LCCN sn83045611) and the Seattle Weekly Post-Intelligencer (LCCN sn86072001) in 1881.

After the merger, Prosch managed the flourishing paper until its sale to a joint stock company in early 1886. Later that year Leigh S. J. Hunt, who purchased controlling interest in the paper from Clarence B. Bagley, used profits from his mining and real estate ventures to improve the P-I with new technologies and progressive journalism. Hunt not only secured a new print type, but also dropped the “daily” and “weekly” designations from the title in favor of the shortened Seattle Post-Intelligencer title and published daily (LCCN sn83045604) (except Mondays) and weekly (LCCN sn86072002). Additionally, he enlarged the Sunday edition and expanded the editorial staff to include famed political reporter Horace R. Cayton, who became Seattle’s first African-American journalist.

Strengthened by innovation and new technology, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer faced external challenges that threatened to destroy the news agency. When the Great Fire of June 6, 1889 razed most of downtown Seattle, including the P-I’s building, Hunt salvaged and relocated his press to a house he owned and published from his barn without missing an edition. The following month, still operating out of his residence, the Post-Intelligencer reported on the historic Constitutional Convention in Olympia, which prepared Washington for statehood. Hit hard during the national financial Panic of 1893 Hunt was forced to sell the paper to a group of Ohio-based investors in 1894. Under new leadership and a renewed fiscal commitment James D. Hoge increased the P-I’s circulation and eliminated many of its previous competitors; only the Seattle Daily Times remained. Having survived fire, financial disasters, and feverish competition, news of gold discovered in the Klondike region reached Seattle in July 1897. Beriah Brown Jr., son of a former Seattle mayor and P-I editor, Brown Sr., first broke the news in an article announcing: "GOLD! GOLD! GOLD! GOLD! ... STACKS OF YELLOW METAL!" Almost immediately the paper experienced a rush of activity and prosperity as it published special guides for would-be Yukon prospectors. The P-I’s "Klondike Edition" printed 212,000 copies and became the largest newspaper run produced west of Chicago. Postmasters, various newspaper editors, mayors, librarians, and members of town councils across the nation received copies for redistribution. The campaign was so successful that international news agencies in France, Belgium, Italy, and Switzerland reprinted the P-I’s circulars.

The viral Klondike Edition resulted in a boom economy for Seattle that not only enhanced its reputation as the major trade port to Alaska but also permanently increased its population, which doubled in ten years from 42,837 (1890) to 80,671 (1900). Soon after, Hoge decided to sell the paper to nearby Spokane investors headed by George Turner. In 1899, Turner resold the P-I to former Washington state senator John L. Wilson who ran the paper until 1912.

Essay Notes¶

Bagley, Clarence B. History of Seattle from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Vols. 1-2. Chicago/Seattle: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1916. (Chapter X. “The Press,” pp. 189-207). http://uwashington.worldcat.org/title/history-of-seattle-from-the-earliest-settlement-to-the-present-time/oclc/7372062&referer=brief_results

Bagley, Clarence B. History of King County, Washington, Vol. 1. Chicago/Seattle: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1929. (Chapter XXI. “Newspapers,” pp. 466-472). http://uwashington.worldcat.org/title/history-of-king-county-washington/oclc/16690641&referer=brief_results

Grant, Frederic James, ed. History of Seattle, Washington: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers. New York: American Publishing and Engraving Co., 1891. (Chapter XX. “Newspapers” pp. 362-371). http://uwashington.worldcat.org/title/history-of-seattle-washington-with-illustrations-and-biographical-sketches-of-some-of-its-prominent-men-and-pioneers/oclc/2617374&referer=brief_results

Hanford, C.H., ed. Seattle and Environs, 1852-1924, Vol. 1. Chicago: Pioneer Historical Pub. Co., 1924.

“Post-Intelligencer Changes Hands.” Editor & Publisher 51: 15 (September 21, 1918). http://uwashington.worldcat.org/title/editor-publisher/oclc/1567511&referer=brief_results

Research¶

1. N.W. Ayer & Son's American newspaper annual -- 1880 -- image 271
   N.W. Ayer & Son's American newspaper annual -- 1897 -- 828
   N.W. Ayer & Son's American newspaper annual -- 1884 -- 346
2. NDNP Candidate Title List (Appendix A1.2)
3. Chronicling America record (LOC) - Seattle Post Intelligencer
4. WorldCat record - Seattle Post Intelligencer
5. WSL record - Seattle Post Intelligencer
6. UW record - Seattle Post Intelligencer
   

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Reel¶

• Filmed by: unknown
• Positives held by: UW
  • Call Number: A329
  • Library holds: 1876-06-05 through 1969-07-15
  • Film condition: 1A position, not targeted, quality varies
• Negatives held by: UW
  • Call Number: A329
    

Notes¶

Evaluation¶

Link to Seattle Post-Intelligencer eval spreadsheets

Totals¶

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