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List of Newspapers

The table below includes all Anglophone newspapers catalogued at the National Library of Chile. In its first phase, this project has digitized five titles, chosen to reflect the Anglophone colony's development over the long nineteenth century: the earliest newspaper, Valparaiso English Mercury (1843); one short-run paper, the Star of Chile (1904-1906); all but the final year of the Valparaiso and West Coast Mail (1867-74); and one magazine, the Valparaiso Review (1894-96).

In the project's second phase, we will digitise the 1874 issues of the Valparaiso and West Coast Mail, as well as the longest-running and arguably the most influential Anglophone newspaper, the Chilian Times (1876-1907).

Title
Dates
Notes
Available form(s)
Valparaiso English Mercury
1843-1844
The first recorded paper to be published in Valparaíso, out of the printing house of the longest-running newspaper in Chile, El Mercurio.
Original and microfilm, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile.
The Neighbour
1847-1851
Founded and edited by David Trumbull. Monthly.
Original and microfilm, BNC.
Weekly Mercantile Reporter
1849
Published by the proprietors F.M. Corneau and C.W. Brink.
Original and microfilm, BNC.
Valparaíso Mercantile Reporter
1849-1852
From issue no. 15 on, The Weekly Mercantile Reporter is named Valparaiso Mercantile Reporter.  Published by the proprietors F.M. Corneau and C.W. Brink M.D. / El Mercurio Imprint.
Original and microfilm, BNC. (Not every issue has been microfilmed)
Valparaiso Echo
1853
Steamer Edition / Edition Bogota
Original and microfilm, BNC.
Valparaíso Herald
1853-1854
Published by Santos Tornero & Co. Editor Thomas B. Adams (from USA).
Original and microfilm, BNC.
Valparaiso Prices Current & Shipping List
1853
Per Steamer Bogotá. Revised and corrected by Alfred Ward ship and produce broker (no 1, 1853). Semi monthly..
Original, BNC.
The Valparaiso and West Coast Mail
1867-1874
"Patria" printing office. "Published the day before the sailing of each Mail Steamer for the North" (nos. 1 to 22, 1867-68)). William J. Cox, Office 44, Calle Aduana (from no. 23, 1868).  Albion Printing Office. Cox & Taylor (from no. 69, 1869). Albion Printing Office. Cox & Taylor, Calle San Agustín #26 y 28 (from no. 162, 1871).
Original and microfilm, BNC.
The Chilian Times
1876-1907
Weekly/triweekly, Imprenta del Universo de G. Helfmann (Calle san Agustín 51813)
Original and microfilm, BNC.
Western Courier
1892-1895
Published weekly, Proprietor and General Manager C.J. Holm. Agents in Valparaiso (Messrs. Westcott & Co., W. G. Paton & Co., C.O. Bowden, calle Esmeralda), Santiago and all along Chile; London and Glasgow.  P.O. Address Casilla No. 566.
Original and microfilmed, BNC
Star of Chile
1904-1906
L. Westcott (printer at his press, Imprenta Inglesa), Robert H. Reid (Editor; former sub-editor of the Chilian Times and correspondent for the London Times) and M.J. Kean (head of business and literary departments, pen name Pepito).
Original, BNC.
The Anglo-Chilian Times
1907-1908
Founder, owner and editor, William J. Cox (formerly the Chilian Times); ran until his death at age 80 (Somervell, 1982, in Marshall, 28).  Agents: W. G. Paton and J. W. Hardy. Subscriptions in Chile, to Bolivia and other countries.
Original and microfilm, BNC.
The South Pacific Mail
1909-1966
Editor Henry Hill. Transnational circulation and subscriptions in Chile, Peru and Bolivia.
Original and microfilm, BNC.
The Chilian News
1913-1915
Soc. Imprenta Y Litografía UNIVERSO - Valparaíso. Distribution according to subscriptions and rates: Chile, Bolivia, Perú, Grt.Britain and colonies, US and Canada Vol I, no. 1, 1913) Weekly; then fortnightly from 1915; then monthly.
Original and microfilm, BNC.
American World
1919-1921
Editorial Offices: Pasaje Templeman 10, Casilla PO BOX 3135, Cable Address: MERWORLD. English phone 153. Press Office: Imprenta de la Escuela Tipográfica Salesiana.
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