"Newspaper Boy"

ID: 1043 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum

This file appears in: Waco Examiner

Boys such as this young man pictured in Edward Mitchell Bannister’s 1869 painting possibly distributed the Examiner to Wacoans. The paper likely employed a large number of such workers by the time the daily circulation reached 13,000.

This file appears in: Waco Examiner

Waco Examiner

By Dayton Kelley, ed., The Handbook of Waco and McLennan County, Texas & Amanda Sawyer

Dubbed the “Athens of Texas” by many who praised the veritable wealth of knowledge found within the city, Waco boasted a host of educational institutions and news sources which promoted the distribution of information. First established in 1865,…