The Union and Advertiser

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.

Rochester Daily Union and Advertiser of April 15, 1865

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]

The Union and Advertiser, May 1895 advertising poster by Harvey Ellis

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.