Newspaper digitization projects

	By Country
International Collections	A-D, E-H, I-L, M-P, Q-Z
	By State
United States	A-D, E-H, I-L, M-P, Q-T, W-Z

This page highlights and links to past, present, and prospective digitization projects of historic newspapers. The focus is primarily on digital conversion efforts, not full-text collections of current news sources.

International Collections

Ancestry.com
Contains digital archives of newspapers from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Ireland (much content comes from NewspaperArchive.com).

NewspaperARCHIVE.com
Archive of U.S. and international newspapers.

Paper of Record
Historical newspapers from around the world.

World Newspaper Archive
Extensive Web-based collection of international newspapers.

Afghanistan

Afghanistan Digital Library
Contains select issues of periodicals and newspapers, including Shams al-nahar, the first newspaper published in Afghanistan, Anis (Apr. 27, 1931-Apr. 25 1932), and Mu'arrif-i ma'arif. Page images only.

Argentina

World Newspaper Archive
Historical newspapers from around the world through a partnership between the Center for Research Libraries community and Readex, a division of NewsBank. Titles from Argentina include: El Nacion (images from January 01, 1906 - January 31, 1919), La Prensa (images from November 03, 1872 - December 31, 1922), and La Razon (images from September 1, 1920 - December 31, 1922).

Australia

Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program
Effort to digitize public domain newspapers 1803-1954. Includes a range of newspapers from every state and territory.
Update: As of January 2008, the first 500,000 pages have been scanned. Includes The Argus (1848–1945), Colonial times (1828-1857), Brisbane Courier (1864-1899), Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (1803–1842), and many others. See: Beta Test Site for access.

Australian Periodical Publications 1840-1845
Digital library of Australian journals that began publication between 1840-1845. Includes select newspapers.

The Nambour Chronicle & North Coast Advertiser 1903-1955
"For 80 years it recorded and photographed local news, social, sporting and business activities, presented local opinions and advertisements, and effectively recorded the development of the area now known as the Sunshine Coast".

Sydney Morning Herald Archives
Full-text editions of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald, 1955-1990. Free searching and browsing; fee to view content.

Austria

ANNO - Austrian Newspapers Online
Large open access archive of digitized newspapers and journals from 1780-1930's held by the Austrian National Library. Includes some content from outside of Austria. Page images only.

Arbeiter Zeitung
Open newspaper archive covering 1945-1989

Belgium

Belgian Press
In 2004, the Royal Library of Belgium, in conjunction with the Center for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society, launched this digital collection of Belgian newspapers collected from federal centers. The total number of pages is expected to reach three million, from over 30 separate titles, spanning the period from 1831 to 1950. Titles include: L'Indépendance Belge, L'Avenir du Luxembourg, and Almanach d’Uylenspiegel.

Bermuda

The Bermudian (Hamilton)

Bermuda Recorder: naval, military, civil service and general news : the people's own penny paper.
Souvenier Cyclone Edition

New Era, or, Home Journal (Hamilton)
Scattered issues from 1881-1884, through the Digital Library of the Caribbean

The Mid-Ocean (Hamilton)
Five scattered issues, 1899-1929, through the Digital Library of the Caribbean

The Royal Gazette, Bermuda Commercial and General Advertiser and Recorder (Hamilton)
From first issue in 1877 to 1909 (later years incomplete). Digital Library of the Caribbean

Royal Gazette and Colonist Daily (Hamilton)
Few scattered issues beginning from 1924, through the Digital Library of the Caribbean

Brazil

World Newspaper Archive
Historical newspapers from around the world. Titles from Brazil include O Estado de Sao Paulo (images from January 04, 1876 - December 31, 1922).

Última Hora
An ongoing digitization project of this Rio de Janeiro title, with nearly 36,000 pages completed spanning 60 months. Browseable by date.

Canada

National

Canada Gazette
Searchable archive covering 1841 through 1998.

Canadian Newsstand
Contemporary Canadian newspapers. Available through ProQuest.

Globe and Mail: Canada's Heritage from 1844
Archive covering 1844-2001. Available through ProQuest.

Multicultural Canada
Site highlighting diverse cultures living in Canada. "Browse Collections" features descriptive information on a number of newspapers such as Ami du Peuple (French Canadian), Canadian India Times (Indian), Chinese Times (Chinese), Voice of Pakistan (Pakistani) and many others.

Paper of Record
Historical newspapers from around the world.

Special Editions of Canadian Newspapers
Selection of special supplements of newspapers published to mark current events.

Toronto Star - Pages of the Past
Historical archive from 1894-2004. Available through ProQuest.

Alberta

Our Future Our Past : Alberta Newspapers Collection
Early newspapers from Alberta, page images only.

Lethbridge Herald Newspaper Collection
Full page images from 1905-1955, searchable keyword or browsed by date.

British Columbia

British Colonist - Victoria, British Columbia
Part of the University of Victoria's digital collections, the British Colonist newspaper survives today as the Times-Colonist and began publishing on December 11, 1858. Contents can be browsed or searched for full-text.

Eleanor Muehle Newspaper Archive - Terrace, British Columbia
Historical newspapers from Terrace published 1926-2004.

Prince George Newspapers Project - British Columbia
Prince George Citizen 1916-1961 now online

The Ubyssey
Digitization of the University of British Columbia's student newspaper, dating from the first edition in October of 1918 through the present.

White Rock Museum + Archives
Digital photographs of Semiahmoo Sun & White Rock Sun, 1956-1966. Available via Flickr collections.

Manitoba

Manitoba: Life and Times
Digital collection of the Manitoba Library Consortium includes many early newspapers published in Manitoba from the earliest published title (1859) to approximately 1920. Also includes The Winnepeg Tribune from 1939-1945. Browseable by date, with article zooming.

Winnipeg Free Press
Full-page searcheable archives of the Winnipeg Free Press dating back to 1874, with over two million pages available to date. Available via subscription with NewspaperARCHIVE.

Newfoundland and Labrador

Memorial University of Newfoundland - Digital Archives
Contains digital images of The Twillingate Sun (1884-1924) and Le Gaboteur (1984-1995) covering Newfoundland and Labrador.

Quebec

Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec - Collection numérique
Includes an extensive number of digitized Quebec newspapers such as La Minerve (1826-1899), La Patrie (1879-1978), The Quebec Chronicle (1847-1924), and the Canadian Illustrated News (1869-1883). Page images only.

Chile

Memoria Chilena
Reportedly contains up to 100,000 images of news resources (news pages, press clippings) selected by various Content Units.

World Newspaper Archive
Historical newspapers from around the world. Titles from Chile include El Mercurio (images from June 01, 1914 - December 31, 1922).

China

People's Daily (Renmin Ribao)
(requires a user account)
Since 1946, "the official voice of the central government of the People's Republic of China."

Cuba

Diario de la Marina (Havana, Cuba)
Searchable page images for 1959, hosted through the cooperative Digital Library of the Caribbean

Diario de la Marina (Miami, Florida)
Pages images of Cuban newspaper published from December, 1960 to May, 1961

Caribbean Newspaper Imaging Project
University of Florida program.

Czech Republic

System Kramerius
Hosted by the Moravian Library in Brno, Kramerius provides online access to digitized periodicals and monographs. The content can be easily browsed by title and date, as well as accessed through keyword searches. One caveat: any digitized material dated after 1880 cannot be viewed from outside of the library.

Denmark

Illustreret Tiende Online
Issues of the illustrated weekly from 1859-1924. Indexed and browseable.

Politiken
Select dates only. Available through NewspaperArchive.com

Dominica

Star (Roseau, Dominica)
Searchable page images for 1965-1968, hosted through the cooperative Digital Library of the Caribbean

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Estonia

Digiteeritud eesti ajalehed
Contains images of newspapers published in Estonia between 1821-1944.

Faroe Islands

Timarit.is
Newspapers and periodicals from Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland, 1773-2001.

Finland

The Finnish Historical Newspaper Library 1771-1890
Finnish newspapers published between 1771 - 1890

France

Germany

Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online - Schwerpunkt Zeitungen
Historical archive of newspapers from the Bavarian State Archives and others. Contains Coburger Zeitung [1854/61-1935], Coburger Nationalzeitung [1930-1945], and others.

Compact Memory
A digital collection of 118 Jewish periodicals from German-speaking countries, 1806-1938.

Exilpresse Digital : Deutsche Exilzeitschriften, 1933-1945
Newspapers and periodicals published by various exile communities before and during World War II.

Freiburger Historische Bestände - digitalisiert
Digitized pages of Freiburger Zeitung (1784-1943) and Staufener Wochenblatt (1875-1968) and other material. Browseable by date.

Pressemappe 20. jahrhunderts
Retrospective digitization of economic press articles from the Institute for World Economy (IfW) and the Hamburg World Economy Archives (HWWA), 1826-1948.

Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden - Historische Zeitungen und Zeitschriften
Digitized images of newspapers from the region of Saxony. Contains Leipziger Zeitungen (1740), Sachsenzeitung (1830-1834), and others.

Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg - Zeitungen
Archive of newspapers from Augsburg (Bavaria). Contains Augspurgische Ordinari Postzeitung [1770-1806].

Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg - Zeitschriften und Zeitungen
Contains digital images of field newspapers from World War I, Heidelberger Zeitung (1861-1919), and Der Heidelberger Student (1929-1938), among other items. Also provides access to Relation (Straßburg, 1609) "the oldest newspaper in the world."

ULB Halle - Historische Zeitungen - digital
Project to digitize retrospective newspapers held by the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt in Halle. Will include titles such as Naumburger Tageblatt (1911-1933) and others.

Die Zeit
National weekly newspaper. Chronological access to print and online articles from its beginning (1946) to the present. Does not allow page image access.

Greece

e-φημερίς (e-fimeris)
Digitized newspapers from the National Library of Greece. Includes page images and article citations. [greek description | english description]

Greek Newspapers (1800-2000)
Digitized newspaper images available from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Includes Ερμής (Ermis), the first newspaper published in Thessaloniki, Φάρος της Μακεδονίας (Faros tis Makedonias) and others. See digital repository summary.

Greenland

Timarit.is
Newspapers and periodicals from Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland, 1773-2001.

Haiti

Nouvelliste (Port-au-Prince, Haiti)
Searchable page images for 1899, hosted through the cooperative Digital Library of the Caribbean

Caribbean Newspaper Imaging Project
University of Florida program.

Unite (New York, NY)
In English and French. Issues from July-December, 1976

Hong Kong

Hong Kong Newspaper Literary Supplements Digitization Project
One of the major digitization projects by the University Library System of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. It aims at collecting, compiling and digitizing the major newspaper literary supplements in Hong Kong.

Hungary

1956 in the Hungarian Electronic Library (Magyar Elektronikus Könyvtár)

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Iceland

Timarit.is
Newspapers and periodicals from Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland, 1773-2001  

India

Indonesia

Ireland

Irish Newspaper Archives
Assorted newspapers dating back to 1763. Free archival searching; fee to view content.

The Irish Times
Digital archive contains articles from 1859 to present. Free to search; fee to view.

Public Register Or Freemans Journal
Select dates only. Available through NewspaperArchive.com.

Israel

Early Hebrew Newspapers Project
Open access to images of the major titles of the early Hebrew press (19th and early 20th century).

Palestine Post
Digitized images of this title, published in Jerusalem, from 1932-1950. Part of "The Jews of Islamic Countries Archiving Project, established in 2000 by the Humanities Faculty of Tel-Aviv University.

Italy

L'Emeroteca Digitale (Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense)
Archive of more than 800 periodicals and newspapers from Italy.

Gazzette Bolognesi
Historic news periodical from Bologna, holdings [1645-1796].

Jamaica

The Gleaner
Digitized version of The Gleaner, holdings [1834-1858]; 1865-date. Available through NewspaperArchive.com.

Korea

Chosun Daily Newspaper archive
Contains the full-text in Korean (with images) of articles from the Chosun Ilbo from 1920-present.

Latvia

Digitalizetie laikraksti
Collection of 100 newspapers published from 1886 to 1956, from the Latvian National Library. See also English interface.

Luxemburg

Luxemburgensia Online - Quotidiens et Hebdomadaires
Browseable by date.

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Mexico

Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de México
(requires a user account)

El Informador - Hemeroteca Digital
Full-text archive of El Informador (1917-2008). Allows browsing by issue or advanced search.

El Porvenir - Hemeroteca Digital
Full-text archive of El Porvenir (1919-2006) from Monterrey, Mexico. By subscription only.

Paper of Record
Historical newspapers from around the world. Includes many short runs of Mexico newspapers, plus el Informador (Guadalajara) from 1917-1968, and Mexican Herald from 1895-1915.

World Newspaper Archive
Historical newspapers from around the world . Titles from Mexico include the Mexican Herald (images from September 01, 1895 - October 29, 1915).

Mongolia

Digital Archive of Mongolian Newspapers 1990-1995
59 Mongolian newspaper titles published during the transition period of 1990-1995, held at the Press Institute of Mongolia. Funded by the Endangered Archives Programme.

Netherlands

Historische kranten in beeld / Digitised Newspapers 1910-1945
Historic Dutch newspapers online, with the earliest papers from the mid-17th century

The Dutch Underground Press during World War II
Digital copies of forbidden printings, 1940-1945. Included is a collection of the underground newspapers from WWII in the Tresoar collection. A majority of this collection is from the 'Verzetsmuseum Friesland' (the Friesian museum of the Resistance). Two publications have been scanned in full (B.B.C. Nieuws and de V 3). Some titles carry a reference to the central catalogue (OPC). Links to other sites with underground newspapers are included.

Stichting Digitaal Archief Leeuwarder Courant
A complete run of the Netherlands’ oldest continuously published newspaper, dating from 1752 to the present.

De Groene Amsterdammer
Netherlands' independent Dutch weekly newsmagazine's digital archive of the first 64 volumes, from 1877-1940.

Gemeentarchief Roermond – Krantenarchief
Gemeentarchief Roermond (a municipality in southeastern Netherlands) offers a digital archive of regional newspapers covering the period 1856-1936. Titles currently include De Roermondenaar (1855-1920), De Volksvriend (1859-1880), Het Nieuwsblad van Roermond (1856-1879), De Maas en Roerbode (1856-1904), De Nieuwe Koerier (1887-1913), De Nieuwe Koerier/Maas-en Roerbode (1906-1930), De Maas-en Roerbode (1856-1904), and other shorter runs. The archive includes nearly 60,000 pages, open to the public.

Plans for 2008 include digitizing select tiles for the period 1937-1971. The following site provides more detail on the project as well as detailed title changes over this period:
http://www.gemeentearchief.roermond.nl/index50504.htm

New Zealand

Māori Niupepa Collection

Papers Past : New Zealand Newspapers and Periodicals
Selected 19th century New Zealand newspapers.

Norway

Norwegian Portal for Digitized Newspapers

Peru

World Newspaper Archive
Historical newspapers from around the world. Titles from Peru include El Comercio (images from July 02, 1877 - August 31, 1910).

Portugal

Diário de Lisboa Online
Digitized version of this title from 1921-1982. FUnded by the Fundação Mário Soares.

Hemeroteca Digital
Project of the Hemeroteca Municipal de Lisboa to digitize public domain periodicals from Portugal. Includes selected newspapers.

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Russia

Старинные сибирские газеты - Электронный архив газет
Collection of Siberian newspapers from 1858-1945. Includes Сибирская газета (Sibirskaia Gazeta), Сибирская жизнь, Советская Сибирь, Томские губернские ведомости (1858-1910), and Томский листок. From the Novosibirsk State Regional Scientific Library (Новосибирской областной научной библиотеки).

Казанская периодическая печать XIX-XX вв.
Project of Kazan State University to digitize Kazan periodical press of the 19th-20th centuries. Includes «Казанские известия» (1811-1820), one of Russia's first provincial newspapers.

Олонецкие губернские ведомости
Petrozavodsk State University is currently digitizing their entire collection of Олонецкие губернские ведомости (News of Olonets Province). The paper was published between 1838 and 1917, and remains an excellent source of provincial life in the Russian Empire.

Russian/NIS Universal Databases
Commercial service providing access to central and regional newspapers from Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, Caucasus, and Baltics. Also offers " Current Digest of Post-Soviet Press."

Татарская периодическая печать 1905-1917 гг.
Project of Kazan State University to digitize important Tatar periodicals from 1905-1917.

Уральские газеты начала 20 века
Full text database of articles from newspapers of the Ural region (1919).
Selected titles are also available as page images from the Chelyabinsk Regional Universal Scientific Library. The site also includes «Власть народа» (1918). Additional resources are available on CD-ROM "Урал на изломе" (The Urals at the Crossroads). [*note - pages images on Web version are too small to read. For best results, use a zoomable image viewer]

«Ведомости» (Vedmosti)
Digital images of the "first Russian printed newspaper" (1702-1727). From the Russian National Library.

Электронная библиотека современной городской прессы Санкт-Петербурга
Proposed project to capture contemporary urban press of Saint Petersburg.

Serbia

Digital National Library of Serbia - Newspapers and Magazines
Access to digitized newspapers such as Politika (1904-1941), Belgrade Illustrated Newspaper (1866), Serbian Illustrated Newspaper (1881-1882), and others. Browseable by date.

Singapore

Chong Shing Yit Pao
Digitized images are from August 1907 through February 1910, and are part of a project by the National University of Singapore Library.

Lat Pau
Lat Pau, the longest running Chinese daily during pre-War Singapore, was started in December 1881 and lasted 52 years before it finally ceased production in March 1932. Digitized images begin with 1887, and are part of a project by the National University of Singapore Library.

National Library of Singapore Newspaper Digitization Project (NewspaperSG)
NewspaperSG provides access to over 548,000 pages of searchable text from the digitized Straits Times (1845-1982). The site also includes the NL microfilm database of some 200 Singapore and Malaya newspapers held at the Lee Kong Chian Reference Library.

Sin Kok Min Jit Pao
The Sin Kuo Min Press, later titled Sin Kok Min Jit Pao, began on October 1, 1919. It was a continuation of the Kok Min Jit Pao, which had been founded in 1914 and ceased publication on 6 August 1919. The publisher moved to Kuala Lumpur in 1941 and the paper ceased publication later in the same year. Digitized images are from 1919 through 1933, and are part of a project by the National University of Singapore Library.

Sun-Poo
Digitized images are from August 1909 through November 1910, and are part of a project by the National University of Singapore Library.

South Africa

Ilanga - Images from the first issue, 1903. In Zulu.

Spain

Hemeroteca digital
Spanish historical press, featuring 191 titles published between 1772 and 1933.

Ministerio de Cultura. Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Histórica
Cooperative program of the Ministry of Culture and state public libraries.

Junta de Andalucía. Biblioteca Virtual Andalucía
Archive of digital documents from Andalucía, including press (See section entitled "Hemeroteca").

Diputació de Barcelona. Fons local de publicacions periòdiques digitalitzades
Journals and newspapers from libraries of the Barcelona region. Currently features 194 titles from 9 libraries.

Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Biblioteca Virtual
Collection of historical press from Castilla-La Mancha.

Biblioteca Municipal de Donostia-San Sebastián - prensa histórica donostiarra (siglos XIX-XX)
Press from the Municipality of San Sebastian in the Basque Country.

Prensa Gallega
Press from Galicia. More than 266 newspaper and journal titles. Part of Biblioteca Dixital of the Xunta de Galicia.

Hemeroteca De Gijón.
Contains 18 titles ranging from mid 1800's to 1968. Easy to use display.

Ajuntament de Girona. Servei de gestió documental, arxius i publicacions
Press of the Municipality of Girona, 1808-1989.

Diputación de Huelva. Hemeroteca
Contains three titles from Huelva, including Odiel (1936-1984).

La Vanguardia
Digital Archive from February 1, 1881- .

Sweden

Swedish Historical Newspaper Archive
This link to the Nordic Digital Newspaper Library requires a username and password for Swedish Newspapers. Provides useful information on the project.

Switzerland

Archivio digitale Sbt dei Quotidiani e Periodici (AQP)
Digital archive of newspapers from Lugano, Switzerland, browseable by date and searchable within each issue. Open access titles include Gazzetta Ticinese (1914-1918), Libera Stampa (1913 - 1993), La Voce di Blenia (1970-2007). Additional titles are restricted by publisher agreement, including Corriere del Ticino (1891-2005), Il Dovere (1921-1982), Giornale del Popolo (1997-2004), La Regione Ticino (1992-2004), radiotivù (1960-1974), Radioprogramma (1934-1959), and tele radio 7 (1976-2005).

The Journal de Genève, 1826-1998
The Swiss newspaper le Temps (www.letemps.ch), in cooperation with the Swiss National Library (www.nb.admin.ch) and the Bibliothèque de Genève (www.ville-ge.ch/bge), has made the complete collection of the Journal de Genève available online.

Intelligenzblatt für die Stadt Bern, 1834-1922
Full-text database of Intelligenzblatt für die Stadt Bern from 1834-1919 and Berner Landeszeitung from 1919-1922.

Tanzania

Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Zeitung, 1899-1916
This title was first published in 1899 in German for settlers in German East Africa (Tanzania). The paper featured local items as well as news from Germany and Europe.

Thailand

Thai Newspaper Collection
Digital images from three titles, Krungdeb Varasab Daily News (1932-1947), The Siam Rashdra Daily News (1934-1938), and Lak Mueang (1940-1941). Hosted by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University.

Ukraine

Russian/NIS Universal Databases
Commercial service providing access to central and regional newspapers from Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, Caucasus, and Baltics. Also offers " Current Digest of Post-Soviet Press."

United Kingdom

Belfast Gazette
Official Newspaper of Record for Northern Ireland

British Library Online Newspaper Archive (Pilot)
Access to selected, searchable facsimile issues of London's Daily News, The News of the World, The Weekly
Dispatch, and The Manchester Guardian.

Edinburgh Gazette
Official Newspaper of Record for Scotland.

The Guardian/Observer Archive
Article database only. Full text/images to be available from ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

London Gazette 1900-1997
Official Newspaper of Record for the UK.

19th Century British Library Newspapers 
Searchable digital archive of 50 papers originating in England, Scotland and Ireland published in the 19th century. Available via subscription from Gale. See Title List and also British Library project page: British Newspapers 1800-1900.

Nineteenth Century Serials Edition (ncse)
Free, online edition of six nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers, including Northern Star (1838-1852) and The Leader (1850-1859). Contains extensive commentary on each title as well as the project's editorial process.

Penny Illustrated Paper
1861-1913.

The Scotsman
Digital archive 1817-1950.

Times (London) Digital Archive
Facsimile images the Times of London from 1785 through 1985.

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United States

National Coverage

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers 
Prototype site providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspapers, produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program.

Ad*Access
Images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.

African-American Newspapers: the 19th Century
Digitized collection of African American newspapers from 1827-1902, including Freedom's Journal (1827-1829), Colored American (1837-1841), Christian Recorder (1861-1902), and more. “This database will ultimately contain the complete text of the major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century.”  Available via subscription from Accessible Archives.

America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922
Integrated searching of Early American Newspapers from 1690-1922. Available via subscription from Readex (a division of NewsBank).

Ancestry.com
Contains digital archives of newspapers from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Ireland

Carriers' Addresses
Digitized collection of broadsides distributed annually as a newsboy's appeal for gratuities. From Brown University.

The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
“This database contains the full text of major articles gleaned from over 2,500 issues of The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865.” Available via subscription from Accessible Archives.

Historical Black Newspapers Collection
Commercial service from ProQuest, provides access to titles published by the African-American community (currently includes Atlanta Daily World, Chicago Defender, Los Angeles Sentinel, New York Amsterdam News, and the Pittsburgh Courier).

Illustrated Civil War Newspapers and Magazines
Periodicals from Confederate, Union, abolitionist, and British presses, 1860-1865. Available via subscription from Alexander Street Press.

19th Century U.S. Newspapers
Full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. Available via subscription from Gale.

Paper of Record
Historical newspapers from around the world. Includes many U.S. newspapers.

Proquest Civil War Era
Newspaper sources from 1840-1865 covering perspectives of the South, North, Mississippi Valley, and Border States. Available via subscription from ProQuest.

Silent Worker, 1888-1929
Popular national newspaper among the deaf population of the United States in the late 19th-early 20th century.

Small Town Papers
Commercial Service, provides access to current newspapers from US towns.

Christian Science Monitor archive
Historic article images from 1908-1980. Free search, article access for a fee. Available via subscription from ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

Stars and Stripes
Complete seventy-one-week run of the newspaper's World War I edition (1917-1918).

Wall Street Journal archive
Historic article images from 1889-1983, current content 1984-present. Free search, article access for a fee. Available via subscription from ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

Alaska

Tundra Times Indexing Project
This project includes a selection of digitized photographs from the Tundra Times, a title published by Native Alaskans from 1962-1997, and an indexed database of the compete photograph collection.

Arizona

Casa Grande Dispatch
Digital archive going back to 1912.

California

California Digital Newspaper Collection
California newspapers spanning the years 1849-1911. Currently includes Alta California (1849-1889); the San Francisco Call (1900-1910); the Amador Ledger (1900-1911); the Imperial Valley Press (1901-1911); and the Los Angeles Herald (1905-1907). Additional titles forthcoming.

El Clamor Publico
The first Spanish-Language newspaper in California after American occupation. Published in Los Angeles. (Digital collection covers 1855-1859).

Los Angeles Sentinel
1934-2005. Available via subscription from ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

Los Angeles Times archive
Historic article images from 1881-1984, current content 1985-present. Free search, article access for a fee. Available via subscription from ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

Colorado

Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection
"Covering Colorado from 1859-1923." See also project Web site.

Connecticut

Hartford Courant Archives
Historic article images from 1764-1984, current content 1992-present. Free search, article access for a fee.
Available via subscription from ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

District of Columbia

Washington Post Archive
Historic article images from 1877-1990, current content 1986-present. Free search, article access for a fee.
Available via subscription from ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

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Florida

Boca Raton newspapers
Collection of “hometown newspapers” including the The Tattler, from 1938; The Pelican, published from 1949-1953; and back issues of the Boca Raton News, in circulation since December of 1955.

Florida Digital Newspaper Library
See also project Web site.

St. Petersburg Times
The St. Petersburg Times is currently being digitized by Google. Materials are currently available through Google News Archive Search, and users are asked to include "St. Petersburg Times" before their search term(s). The electronic database includes Times articles dating from May 1901 to August 2007. (Though the Times was founded in 1884, the earliest edition available on microfilm dates from 1901). Google has also digitized the St. Petersburg Evening Independent from 1907 to its last edition in 1986. The material will soon be accessibly directly from the newspaper's web site.

Georgia

Georgia Historic Newspapers
Selected issues of Georgia newspapers published 1750 to 1925. Currently includes issues of three important historic Georgia newspapers, the Cherokee Phoenix, the Dublin Post, and the Colored Tribune.

Atlanta Constitution archive
Historic article images from 1868-1929, current content 1985-present. Free search, article access for a fee. Available via subscription from ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

Atlanta Daily World
Available from ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

Hawaii

Hawaiian Language Newspapers
Selected Hawaiian language newspapers ranging from 1861-1927.

Ho'olaupa'i - Hawaiian Newspapers Collection
Collection of historic Hawaiian-language newspapers published between 1834 and 1948.

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Illinois

Barrington Review online
Searchable page images of the Barrington Review from 1914-1930.

Chicago Defender
Historic article images from 1905-1975. Free search, article access for a fee. Available via subscription from ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

Chicago Tribune archive
Historic article images from 1849-1985, current content 1985-present. Free search, article access for a fee. Available via subscription from ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

Dziennik Zwiazkowy
The Center for Research Libraries has digitized the initial 10 years (1908-17) of this Polish-language newspaper published in Chicago. Its early years coincide with an important time in the history of Chicago, the state of Illinois, and the nation when many Chicago Poles were at the forefront of the struggle for workers' rights and the union movement.  

Farm, Field and Fireside
Ongoing project of historic agricultural newspapers published in Illinois and the Midwest. Titles include Berkshire World and Cornbelt Stockman (1910-1926) and Farmers Voice (1898-1913).

Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection
Ongoing project now includes The Urbana Daily Courier from 1926-1935 and Daily Illini (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Student Newspaper) from Sept. 1916 - Mar. 1936

Quincy Historical Newspaper Archive
Historical Quincy newspapers published 1835 to 1890

Indiana

Muncie Post-Democrat Newspaper Collection
Full-text newspaper from 1921-1950.

Muncie Times Collection
A bi-weekly newspaper serving the African American community since 1991.

Iowa

Aiken Standard
Fully-indexed digital archive from 1871 to 2007. Available through NewspaperARCHIVE.com.

Charles City Daily Press
The official newspaper of Floyd County, the archives currently contains issues of from 1930 and 1931.

Kentucky

Kentuckiana Digital Library : Newspapers
See also project Web site.

Louisiana

LOUISiana Digital Library: Louisiana Newspapers
An ongoing digitization project of selected Louisiana newspapers microfilmed as part of the United States Newspaper Program.

New Orleans Bee
"The New Orleans Bee/ L’Abeille de la Nouvelle-Orléans was a French language newspaper published in New Orleans beginning on September 1, 1827. An English section was added three months later. The newspaper continued as a dual language publication until 1872 when the English portion was dropped and once again it became French only. Briefly (1829-1830) there was also a Spanish language section." Digitized images from September 1817 to December 1923 are available.

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Maryland

Early State Records Online
Includes digital images (from microfilm, browse only) of early Maryland newspapers, including the American and Commercial Daily Advertiser (1802-1807), Cambridge Chronicle (1830-1857), Centreville Observer (1871-1918), and more.

Massachusetts

Alvorada Diaria (1919-1926) and Diario de Noticias (1927-1973)
Both were published in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Under the same owner/publisher, it was the most important Portuguese language daily in the United States during that time. Coverage includes Portuguese communities in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey and New York.

Barnstable Patriot newspaper archive
Historic newspaper ("seventh oldest newspaper in the United States") from Barnstable County, Massachusetts, covering Cape Cod and the Islands. Also covers Hyannis Patriot [1894-1930] and Sandwich Observer [1910-1911].

Boston Globe archive
Historic article images from 1872-1922, current content 1979-present. Free search, article access for a fee. Available via subscription from ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

Cape Cod Chronicle and Chatham Monitor
Digitized images from local Chatham titles, keyword search capable. Dates include: 1871-1899, 1918-1939, 1941-1943, and 1965-2008.

The Liberator
Published by fervent abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator was the most influential anti-slavery publication during the antebellum period of American history. Digitized images from 1831-1865. Available via subscription from Accessible Archives.

Provincetown Advocate online
Currently covers 1918, 1931-1934 and 1936-1967. Earlier issues in Process.

Minnesota

Holt Weekly News
Archive of community newspaper Holt Weely News from 1911-1952.

Minnesota Digital Newspaper Project

Winona Newspaper Project
Archive of three Winona County newspapers, 1860-1946.

Missouri

Chillicothe Newspaper Archives
Searchable archive of the Chillicothe Constitution Tribune from 1889-2006.

Historic Missouri Newspapers Project
Online archive of historic newspapers from St. Louis and other locations

The Sporting News
Searchable digital issues from 1886-2003. Available via subscription from Paper of Record.

Nebraska

 

Nevada

Las Vegas Age newspaper digital collection
Digital images of the Las Vegas Age from the Special Collections of the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District. Covers April 7, 1905-1915, 1917-1922, 1924.

New Jersey

Atlantic County Digitized Newspapers
Digitized newspapers published in Atlantic County from 1860-1923. Includes South Jersey Republican (Hammonton, NJ, 1863-1923) and other shorter runs.

Historical Cranbury Press
The Cranbury Press (Cranbury New Jersey) from 1880-1926.

The Red Bank Register
A collaborative effort between the Middletown Main Library and Red Bank Library titled "A Digitization Project: The Red Bank Register 1871- 1991" to digitize the entire The Red Bank Register microfilm collection. The first phase covering June 27, 1878, to October 23, 1947 has been completed.

Silent Worker, 1888-1929
Popular national newspaper among the deaf population of the United States in the late 19th-early 20th century.

South Amboy Citizen
The Sadie Pope Dowdell Public Library is currently digitizing the South Amboy Citizen, beginning with July 2, 1910. The collection will eventually include the issues through December 1944; however, to date, only 1910, 1911, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924 and 1925 have been filmed.

New York

Brooklyn Daily Eagle online
Covering 1841-1902.

Cornell Daily Sun
Presented through Cornell University Library, this site provides access to the complete historical run of the newspaper, from 1880-1979.

Freedom's Journal
Published weekly in New York City from 1827-1829. Available from Wisconsin's African-American Newspapers and Periodicals.

The Friend of Man
A newspaper of the reform and anti-slavery movements, published in Utica from 1836-1842. Important for presenting some of the views of the rural north during this turbulent time. A project of the Cornell University Library.

HarpWeek - Harper's Weekly historical archive
Provides indexed and full-text access to Harper's Weekly from 1857-1912.

Long Island Newspapers
A collection of Long Island newspapers, including the Daily Review of Nassau County, Freeport News, and the South Side Messenger

New York Amsterdam News
1922-1993 Available from ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

New York Public Library : National Digital Newspaper Program
Project description featuring digitization of The Sun and The Evening World, 1900-1910.

Historical New York Times Project
Possibly defunct site.

New York Times archive
Historic article images from 1851-1980, current content 1981-present. Free search, article access for a fee.

Northern New York Historical Newspapers
Indexed access to selected historical newspapers from counties served by the Northern New York Library Network.

Suffolk Historic Newspapers
Newspapers from Suffolk County, N.Y. covering a variety of towns and time periods. Includes such titles as the Long Islander (Huntington) from 1839-1859 and the Corrector (Sag Harbor) from 1858-1871.

Oklahoma

Oklahoman archives
Full-page replicas of The Oklahoman dating back to 1901.

Pennsylvania

Lancaster County Digitization Project
Collection of digitized materials including Lancaster newspapers Columbia Spy (1830-1889) , F&M College Reporter (1915-2001), Lancaster Journal (1816-1836), Lancaster Intelligencer (1847-1871), and New Holland Clarion (1873-1950).

Nazareth Item (Nazareth, PA)
Digitized images of the Nazareth Item from the Nazareth Memorial Library.

Pennsylvania Civil War Newspapers
Contains titles published 1855-1871 in Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania Gazette
Digitized images from1728-1800. Available via subscription from Accessible Archives.

Digital Newspapers at Penn State
Includes historical college newspapers and Lancaster Farming, a weekly agricultural publication.

Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project
Archive consists of The Jewish Criterion (1895-1962), The American Jewish Outlook (1934-1962), and The Jewish Chronicle (1962-Present).

Pittsburgh Courier
1911-2002 Available from ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Valley of the Shadow: Civil War Era Newspapers
Selected articles and page images from Franklin, PA and Augusta, VA newspapers.

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South Carolina

The New South Newspaper, 1862 -1866
Digitized searchable images of The New South, published in Port Royal, S.C. (and later in Beaufort).

South Carolina Gazette, 1732-1780
"The collection contains a wealth of information on Colonial/Early American History and Genealogy, and provides an accurate glimpse of life in South Carolina and America during the early days of this country." Available via subscription from Accessible Archives.

South Dakota

South Dakota Newspaper Digitization Project

Texas

Dallas News Historical Archive
Full page reproductions of The Dallas Morning News from 1885-1977. Available from NewsBank.

Utah

Utah Digital Newspapers
Digitized searchable images of Utah newspapers from 1850-1960. Includes Deseret News, the first newspaper published in the Utah Territory.

Virginia

Library of Virginia Newspaper Program
Digitized newspapers [1900-1910] of Richmond Dispatch, The Times, and Times Dispatch (Richmond, VA). Available through Chronicling America.

Richmond Daily Dispatch
Digitized versions of 1,384 issues of the paper, ranging in date from November 1860 through December 1865.

Valley of the Shadow: Civil War Era Newspapers
Selected articles and page images from Franklin, PA and Augusta, VA newspapers.

Virginia Gazette, The
Digitized page images from 1736-1780. Browseable by date or searchable by subject.

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Washington

Historical Newspapers in Washington
Early newspapers, including The Columbian, Pioneer and Democrat, and the Walla Walla Statesman. Indexed and browseable.

Wisconsin

African-American Newspapers and Periodicals.
Includes Freedom's Journal, published weekly in New York City from 1827-1829.
Wisconsin Local History and Biography articles consists of newspaper articles preserved in scrapbooks at the Wisconsin Historical Society during the late 19th and early 20th century.

Wyoming

Wyoming Newspaper Project
Newspapers printed in Wyoming between 1849 and 1922

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