Wall Street Journal, first issue July 8, 1889
Evolving from a stock price sheet to a national newspaper covering aspects of society far beyond its eponymous Wall Street, the Journal was never known as a delight to the eye. It has been described even in reference works as a “gray and dull format without a sports section, comics, or photographs.”1 However, the Journal’s distinctive “hedcuts,” small black and white portraits introduced in 1979, can be found here in this online archive in addition to the familiar 5 or 6 columns of dense text.
Hedcuts of the Fed Heads: Paul Volcker, Alan Greenspan, and Ben Bernanke
Explore award-winning journalism with in-depth stories on the World Trade Center attacks, the Enron collapse, or the AIDS epidemic. Or delve farther back in time to the Great Depression, Henry Ford and automation, and the labor and reform struggles at the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries. We hope the Wall Street Journal Archive offers a rich primary source for researchers in a wide range of fields, from Accounting to Technology and beyond.
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- Apple First Day earnings, December 12, 1980
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- Wal-mart and rural retail strategies, July 2, 1984
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- Outrage over tax inequality, January 11, 1905
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- Striking for an 8-hour day. August 30, 1915
1 Raj, S. (2020). Wall Street Journal, the. In The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and Society (Vol. 5, pp. 1876-1876). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483375519 via Credo Reference.