Anzeiger des Westens
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The Anzeiger des Westens, which operated from 1835 to 1912, was the first German-language newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Alongside the Westliche Post and the Illinois Staats-Zeitung,
Anzeiger des Westens building, in a woodcut from 1887
Henry Boernstein, one of several editors and proprietors, starting in 1850
Carl Daenzer, Editor of the Anzeiger des Westens. Carte de visite by Cramer, Gross and Co., c. 1879 Missouri History Museum Photograph and Print Collection.
A Soulard neighborhood brick house
Illinois Staats-Zeitung
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Illinois Staats-Zeitung was one of the most well-known German-language newspapers of the United States; it was published in Chicago from 1848 until 1922. Along with the Westliche Post and Anzeiger des
The massive Illinois Staats-Zeitung building constructed after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871
George Schneider, editor from 1851 to 1861
Anton C. Hesing was the owner of the Staats-Zeitung from 1867 until his retirement in the 1880s.
Lorenz Brentano, editor of the Staats-Zeitung 1861 to 1867