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Newspaper The Freeman (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1884-1927

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About The Freeman (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1884-1927

The issues digitized for this newspaper were microfilmed for and sponsored by the Committee on Negro Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and Bell & Howell, a microfilming company, by the Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service in 1947, compiling African American newspapers published in the U.S. throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. For more information on the microfilm collection, see: Negro Newspapers on Microfilm, a Selected List (Library of Congress), published in 1953. While this collection contains selections from many U.S. newspapers titles, for further coverage, view a complete list of all digitized African American titles available in the Chronicling America collection.

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About this Newspaper

Title

  • The Freeman (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1884-1927

Names

  • Howland, Louis, 1857-1934

Dates of Publication

  • 1884-1927

Created / Published

  • Indianapolis [Ind.] : Louis Howland

Headings

  • -  African American newspapers--Indiana
  • -  African Americans--Indiana--Indianapolis--Newspapers
  • -  Indianapolis (Ind.)--Newspapers
  • -  Marion County (Ind.)--Newspapers
  • -  African American newspapers
  • -  African Americans
  • -  Indiana
  • -  Indiana--Indianapolis
  • -  Indiana--Marion County
  • -  United States--Indiana--Marion--Indianapolis

Genre

  • Newspapers

Notes

  • -  Weekly
  • -  Began in 1884; ceased in 1927.
  • -  Editors: Louis Howland, <1886>; Edward E. Cooper, <1888>.
  • -  Publishers: Edward E. Cooper, ; George L. Knox, .
  • -  Numbering starts over again in July 1888.
  • -  Microfilmed for the Committee on Negro Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and Bell & Howell, by the Library of Congress, Photoduplication Service.
  • -  Description based on: Vol. 1, no. 14 (Nov. 20, 1884).

Medium

  • volumes

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Newspaper

Library of Congress Control Number

  • sn82016211

OCLC Number

  • 9201961

ISSN Number

  • 2997-5794

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Chicago citation style:

The Freeman Indianapolis Ind. -1927. (Indianapolis, IN), Jan. 1 1884. https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82016211/.

APA citation style:

(1884, January 1) The Freeman Indianapolis Ind. -1927. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82016211/.

MLA citation style:

The Freeman Indianapolis Ind. -1927. (Indianapolis, IN) 1 Jan. 1884. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/sn82016211/.