The Union and Advertiser, also known as the Daily Union and Advertiser was a newspaper in Rochester, New York. It was published by Curtis, Butts & Co. from 1856 until at least 1886. For at least part of its history it was a daily. Several volumes are part of the Library of Congress' collection. It was succeeded in 1918 by the Rochester Times-Union.
Papers it competed with over the years included the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
History
The Rochester Daily Advertiser was published from 1826.
The New York Times reported on the paper's American Civil War era coverage in 1863.
The paper covered the National Convention of Spiritualists in Rochester August 26-28 1868.
Artist Harvey Ellis had a work published in the paper in 1895. It is now held by the Boston Public Library.
In 1908, the Union and Advertiser press was used to publish a publication on the origin and development of Rochester's park system.
March 9, 1911 the paper ran an obituary on William Webster, landscape artist at the Glen Iris Estate, home to the William Pryor Letchworth's residence that became the Glen Iris Inn and the land that is now part of Letchworth State Park.
References
- "Rochester Union and Advertiser (Rochester, N.Y.) 1856-1860". Library of Congress.
- Humanities, National Endowment for the. "Rochester daily union and advertiser. [volume]" – via chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
- Kronk, Gary W. (September 19, 2017). Lewis Swift: Celebrated Comet Hunter and the People's Astronomer. Springer. ISBN 9783319637211 – via Google Books.
- "The Democratic Party and the Peace; Movement". The New York Times. June 8, 1863.
- "1868 Rochester Daily Union and Advertiser". iapsop.com.
- "The union and advertiser, May number". September 3, 2013 – via Flickr.
- "The origin & development of Rochester's park system". Union and advertiser press. May 26, 1908. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.37138.
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