The Union and Advertiser, also known as the Daily Union and Advertiser was a newspaper in Rochester, New York.[1] It was published by Curtis, Butts & Co.[2] 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.[3]
History
The Rochester Daily Advertiser was published from 1826.[citation needed]
The New York Times reported on the paper's American Civil War era coverage in 1863.[4]
The paper covered the National Convention of Spiritualists in Rochester August 26-28 1868.[5]
Artist Harvey Ellis had a work published in the paper in 1895. It is now held by the Boston Public Library.[6]
In 1908, the Union and Advertiser press was used to publish a publication on the origin and development of Rochester's park system.[7]
March 9, 1911 the paper ran an obituary on William Webster, landscape artist at the Glen Iris Estate, [8] 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.
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