Newspapers and Photographs of the Upper Cumberland

Student newspaper of Tennessee Polytechnic Institute and later Tennessee Technological University. The collection includes digitized issues and The Oracle website.

Photographs taken for The Dispatch newspaper published in Cookeville, Tennessee. The newspaper was published under the title Tennessee Pictorial Dispatch from August 1963 to April 1965, and The Dispatch from April 1965 until closing in 1994.

The Herald-Citizen began as the Putnam County Herald, and its first edition was printed Feb. 11, 1903 by Elmer Lincoln Wirt and his son, Ralph Wirt, in their small printing shop across from the west side of the Putnam County Courthouse, where the historic Arcade building is now. Cookeville native John R. Mott started a weekly tabloid newspaper, the Cookeville Citizen, in 1954, and the two papers merged on Feb. 1, 1960, temporarily becoming the Herald and Citizen before the name changed to Herald-Citizen Jan. 14, 1969. (From https://www.herald-citizen.com/site/about.html) The Herald Citizen newspaper collection was digitized from bound copies that were donated to Tennessee Technological University Archives and Special Collections. This collection is organized chronologically by decade, year, and month according to the name of the newspaper at the time of publication. Photographs taken for The Herald Citizen newspaper were digitized from negatives and slides that were donated to Tennessee Technological University Archives and Special Collections. Photographs in this collection are organized chronologically by decade, year, and month.