ICON: International Coalition on Newspapers

Newspaper digitization projects

By Country
International Collections
By State
United States

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

Google News Archive
Freely accessible historical newspapers from the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and select other countries.

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

Paper of Record fee
Historical newspapers from around the world.

World Newspaper Archive fee
Extensive Web-based collection of international newspapers (including Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and others).


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 fee
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 Age (Melbourne, Australia)
Available through Google News Archive, 1854-1989. In Advanced Search, type "Age" in the source field to search only this newspaper.

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 Mail
Available through Google News Archive, 1860-1936. In Advanced Search, type "Sydney Mail" in the source field to search only this newspaper.

Sydney Morning Herald
Available through Google News Archive, 1840-1989. In Advanced Search, type "Sydney Morning Herald" in the source field to search only this newspaper.

Sydney Morning Herald Archives fee
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).

Acervo Diario de Pernambuco
Searchable archive of pages from the Diario de Pernambuco. Currently free, covering 1980-1995. Allows keyword searching, browsing. Navigation from page to page is difficult. No longer accessible (Jul. 2012)

Acervo Estadão (Estado de S. Paulo digital archive) $
Searchable archive of the full run of O Estado de Sao Paulo and related titles (1875-2010). Subscription required. See CRL's product review.

Acervo Folha de S. Paulo
Pages images and text searching for back issues of Folha de S. Paulo (1960-present) and related publications (Folha de Manha 1933-1959, and Folha de Noite 1933-1959). Currently free.

Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira
Full page images and text searching of hundreds of newspapers, magazines, newsletters, and more from Brazil from the 19th and 20th century. Includes the Diário do Rio de Janeiro (1821-1878) and soon to include the complete run of the Jornal do Brasil (1891-2010).

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

Burma

Digitized Newspapers $
Page images of Burma News (1934) and The Sun (Thuriya) (1931-32), availabe through purchase.

Canada

National

Canada Gazette
Searchable archive covering 1841 through 1998.

Canadian Newsstand fee
Contemporary Canadian newspapers. Available through ProQuest.

Globe and Mail: Canada's Heritage from 1844 fee
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 fee
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.

Peel's Prairie Provinces
Site reportedly containing over 10,000 newspaper issue related to settlement and development of the Canadian West. From University of Alberta Libraries.

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.

Ming Pao Daily News Database
The database represents a collaboration between the Asian Library, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada), a Chinese news group and a family foundation which is dedicated to the furthering of Chinese culture in Canada. The archival database of community news in Chinese (1993-present) is freely available

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

Quesnel Cariboo Observer
Supported in part by UBC's Irving K. Barber Centre, this collection features issues from 1908 through 1967.

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 fee
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.

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia Historical Newspapers Online
Page image browsing for titles from Nova Scotia, 1769-1991. Includes titles such as the Cape Breton News and The 4th Estate.

Ontario

1812History Project
Contains scattered issues of papers published in the U.S., England, and Canada around the period of the War of 1812. Search by type: Newspaper.

OurOntario.ca Community Newspapers Collection
Project to digitize community newspaper in Ontario

Toronto Korean-Language Newspapers
An international collaborative project funded by the National Institute of Korean History, this digital collection contains two prominent Toronto Korean-language titles: The Minjoong Shinmoon (Jan. 1982; Jan. 1989-Mar. 1993) and The New Korea Times (May 1982-May 2003).

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

China

Apabi Newspaper Database $
Apabi offers a variety of full text eBooks and databases. Its full-text, full-image newspaper database covers more than 300 current newspapers on a cross-searchable platform. The majority of news content covers August 2007 forward, though some content reaches back further (ex. Zhejiang Daily, Hangzhou Daily).

China Core Newspapers Database (CCND)
Part of the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) set of databases, this online full-text database covers over 700 newspapers published in mainland China since 2000. Content is added daily, approximately one week behind publication. Index searching free, full-text access by subscription.

Electronic Index to the Early Shenbao (1872-1898)
This online-index of articles from the Shanghai daily Shen bao (1872-1949) covers the years from the paper's foundation in April 1872 to the end of the year 1898, and provides keyword access to more than 11,000 entries.

The National Index to Chinese Newspapers & Periodicals (NICNP)
This effort, led by the Shanghai Library, contains more than 30 million entries from around 18,000 periodical and newspaper titles. Nearly 3.5 million article entries are added each year. Shanghai Library provides access to articles on demand.

North China Herald $
Newspaper from Shanghai, 1850-1926 available through NewspaperARCHIVE.

North China Herald Online $
Full-text searchable database covering 1850-1943. Available for purchase through Brill.

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

People's Liberation Army (PLA) Daily (Jie fang jun bao) $
The official newspaper of the military of the People's Republic of China. The role of the PLA during the cultural revolution makes this title a valuable research resource. The database offers full-text searching of retrospective content, complete from the first issue in 1956 to the present. The database presently contains more than 450,000 articles as text-only; full image digital content will be available in the future.

Shen Bao ( 申報 ) Digital Archive $
Available through East View Information Services. See CRL's Product Review.

WiseSearch $
WiseSearch is a robust database of more than 75 million articles from hundreds of media sources aggregated by Wisers Information Ltd. (Hong Kong). Information is updated daily from more than 1,500 content providers in Hong Kong and Greater China.

Zhongyang Ribao (中央日報) 1928-1949 $
Page-image database with keyword or date searching of the Central Daily News.

Costa Rica

La Nacion
Digitized archives, beginning with June 2, 1930, currently through 1991. The files appear to be provided by Google News.

Croatia

Metelwin Digital Library - «Digitalizacija zavičajne i kulturne baštine»
Contains digitized newspapers from Croatia, inclduing titles published in Varaždin, Vinkovci, Đurđevac and other cities. Link to full title list.

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 - Digitální knihovna novin
Hosted by the Moravian Library in Brno, Kramerius provides online access to digitized periodicals and monographs. Includes important titles such as Lidové noviny (1893-1945) and Národní listy (1861-1941). The content can be easily browsed by title and date, as well as accessed through keyword searches. NOTE: digitized material dated after 1909 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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Dominican Republic

Archivo General de la Nacion
The Archivo General reports it has digitized newspapers inlcuding El Duende (1821), El Telégrafo Constitucional, Boletín del Archivo General de la Nación (1938-2007), and Boletín Eclesiástico (1884-1967). At present these are only accessible on site.

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

Gallica - La presse quotidienne
Gallica, the digital library of the Bibliothéque nationale de France, hosts numerous newspaper titles from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Notable titles currently include Le Figaro (1830-1942), Le Temps (1861-1935), La Croix (1883-1944), L'Humanité (1904-1944), La Presse (1836-1858), and Le Journal des débats (1814-1912), among others.
Gallica has also converted a number of historical reference works relating to the early press of France; see the link at the bottom of the homepage

Germany

Amtspresse Preussens
Open access archive to two widely distributed and influential Prussian newspapers from the second half of the 19th century, the Provinzial-Correspondenz, 1863-1884 and the Neueste Mittheilungen, 1882-1894.

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.

DDR-Presse (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin)
Digitized versions of three East German newspapers (Neues Deutschland, Berliner Zeitung, and Neue Zeit). Requires registration, may be open only to patrons in Germany.

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

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Archiv $
Offers two portals to acecss historical content of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: F.A.Z.-Biblionet (offering coverage from 1993-present) and F.A.Z.49-92 (covering hitorical content back to the paper's founding). See CRL's Product Review for details.

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.

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Die digitale Bibliothek
Digitized images of newspapers in German and other languages published in Germany. Contains brosweable issues of more than 70 titles in varying runs (often produced through the State Library's digitization on demand program). Includes Berliner Gerichts-Zeitung [1853-1869], Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Zeitung [1899-1916], Die Feder [1898-1917], Neustädter Kreisblatt [1852-1911], and Reichswart [1920-1936] among 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 Vossische Zeitung Online. 1918-1934 $
Full-text database covering the complete run (including foreign editions) of this significant paper of the Weimar period. Available for purchase through de Gruyter.

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.

ZEFYS
From the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, an extensive collection of digitized newspapers, including German and German-language titles.

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

Andhra Patrika
Covers select years between 1931-1941. Photo images.

Times of India (1838-2001) $
Available from ProQuest Historical Archive

Indonesia

Indonesian Newspaper Project - Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD)
"The aim of this project is to microfilm and digitise all Indonesian newspapers from the period 1940-1946 derived firstly from the NIOD collection, and secondly from the other institutes in the Netherlands with similar collections of Indonesian newspapers and make these online accessible for scholars and students specialized in Asian history."

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.

Irish Times and Weekly Irish Times $
Available from ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

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).

Jerusalem Post, 1932-1988 $
Available from ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

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.

Japan

Asahi Shimbun article database$
Marketed under the title Kikuzo II Visual for Libraries, this database contains articles and page images of the Asahi Shimbun (Japan's premiere newspaper) from 1945 to the present, as well as AERA weekly magazine (1988-present) and Shukan Asahi weekly (2000-present). Also contains the newspaper's photo history archive.

Yomiuri Shinbun$
Full text data from the Yomiuri Shinbun, available in two sets: from Meiji until 1970, and from 1986 to present (Yomidasu Bunshokan).

Korea

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

Donga (Tonga) Ilbo Archive $
Full-text online Korean newspaper, covering 1920-present

Kyungsung Ilbo (Keijo Nippo) 1907-1945
Scanned images of the Keijo Nippo (Kyongsong Ilbo, also spelled Kungsung Ilbo), a Japanese language newspaper published in Korea during the occupation period. Browseable by date, with page images in PDF. Accessible only to institutions with print holdings.

National Library of Korea
A full text database of 31 newspapers published before 1945.

Naver Digital News Archive
Naver (the popular Korean search engine) launched a service in April 2009 to search historical newspapers. The Digital News Archive allows users to search through the back issues of three Korean papers (Dong-A Ilbo, Kyonghyang Sinmun, and Maeil kyongje). The beta period covers 1976-1985, additional content is planned. Full-text search by date, keyword, etc.; texts provided as page images, with electronic text available.

Latvia

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

Lithuania

e-Paveldas
Page images (with some text searchability) of Lithuanian periodicals prior to 1940. An example is Lietuwiszka ceitunga [1877-1940]. Also contains documents from the press ban period (1864-1904) as well as incomplete holdings of Lithuanian-language newspapers published in the United States (Lietuva and Draugas from Chicago, for example) and other countries. A joint digital archive of the Lithuanian National Library (Lietuvos nacionalinė M. Mažvydo biblioteka), Lietuvos dailės muziejus (Lithuanian Art Museum ), and Lietuvos archyvų departamentas (Lithuanian Archives Department).

Luxemburg

Luxemburgensia Online - Quotidiens et Hebdomadaires
Browseable by date.

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Mexico

Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de México
Page images and full-text search of nearly 600 titles ranging from 1722 to 1978.

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 fee
Historical newspapers from around the world. Titles from Mexico include Diario de Mexico, Dictamen, Imparcial, the Mexican Herald, and Siglo Diez y Nueve, among many others.

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

NZ Chinese Journals
This database contains two Chinese language titles published in Wellington, New Zealand. The Man Sing Times (1921-1922) and New Zealand Chinese Weekly News (1937-1946) represent the small and largely rural Chinese New Zealand community.

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

Norway

Norwegian Portal for Digitized Newspapers (Nasjonalbiblioteket - digitale aviser)
Contains historical images (with some full-text searchability). Includes titles such as Aftenposten (1870-1905), Morgenbladet (1820-1900), Nordlands Avis (1893-1978), Norske Intelligenz-Seddeler (1763-1905) and others.

Peru

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

Poland

Digital Library of Wroclaw University
Includes page images of various newspapers published in Wroclaw (Breslau), including Polska Zachodnia, Ostdeutsche Bau-Zeitung, and others. Requires DjVu plugin.

e-Kolekcja Czasopism Polskich (Polish e-journals collection)
Contains page images of various journals and newspapers, browseable by title and date. Some may require DjVu plugin. From the University of Warsaw Library.

Tygodnik Ilustrowany
Page images of this illustrated weekly for the period 1859-1865. Browseable by date and issue number.

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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Romania

Biblioteca Digitala Nationala
The Romanian National Library (Biblioteka Nationala a Romanei) has scanned page images for the official gazette Monitorulŭ (1862) and
Monitorul (1863).

Gazeta de Transilvania
Page images digitized by the Biblioteca Judeţeană "George Bariţiu" Braşov. Currently only 1840 is accessible.

 

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).

Izvestiia Digital Arvhive, 1917-2010 $
Full-text and image database of this paper of record. Available from East View Information Services.

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.

Pravda Digital Archive, 1912-2009 $
Full-text and image database of the Soviet-era newspaper. Available from East View Information Services.

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.

World Newspaper Archive - African Newspapers $

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. Contains nearly 2,000 titles from Spain published between 1777 and the present.

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

Post och Inrikes Tidningar
Popularly known as PoIT, the world's oldest newspaper still in publication is now only available in its digitized form. It is the official organ of the Swedish government, reporting financial, legal, and corporate announcements.

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), radiotivů (1960-1974), Radioprogramma (1934-1959), and tele radio 7 (1976-2005).

L'Express / L'Impartial Archives
The digitized archives of two Neuchâtel daily newspapers, L’Express and L’Impartial are available at the following addresses: www.lexpressarchives.ch or www.limpartialarchives.ch. Currently access is restricted to the editions published between January 2000 and December 2005; those of previous years will be uploaded progressively. The complete collection of L’Express (entitled the Feuille d’avis de Nechâtel from its creation in 1738 until October 1988) and of L’Impartial (launched in 1881) will be available online by the end of 2012.  The partner are SNP Société neuchâteloise de presse, the publisher of the two daily newspapers, with the support of the Bibliothèque publique et universitaire (BPU) of Neuchâtel, the Bibliothèque de la Ville de La Chaux-de-Fonds (BVCF) and the Swiss National Library (NL) in Bern.

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.

Le Temps Archives , 1798-1998
The Swiss newspaper le Temps, in cooperation with the Swiss National Library and the Bibliothèque de Genève, has made the following collections available online free of cost at http://www.letempsarchives.ch : the Journal de Genève (1826-1998), Gazette de Lausanne (1798-1998) and the Nouveau Quotidien (1991-1998), three daily newspapers that were the forerunners of Le Temps.

Taiwan

Newspapers in Taiwan$
This product contains full-text article access (with clipped images) from 10 important news titles from Taiwan, including Zhongyang ribao (Central Daily News), Zhongguo shi bao (China Times), and Lian he bao (United Daily News). Content is primarily current issues (2002 forward).

Central Daily News Archive Image (Zhongyang ribao)$
This title began in 1928 in Shanghai, eventually settling in Taiwan in 1949. The online database covers page image access to this title from 1928 to 2000. Central Daily News is the official news media for the Kuomintang government in Taiwan.

Chinese Daily News$
This title is reported to be an important daily from southern Taiwan first published February 20th, 1950. The database, containing issues from 1996 to the present, features page images and indexed articles.

Chijie ribao [World Daily fulltext search]
The World Daily fulltext search site, available from Shih Hsin University in Taiwan, offers access to limited runs of Shijie ribao, a Chinese language daily founded in Beijing in 1925. The database contains searchable news articles between 1926 and 1929, with limited page image accessibility (the image files are named using Big5 characters, making the links inaccessible to western machines).

Taiwan Baseball News Archives
This project cooperated with the United Daily News Group in Taiwan to create a digital library of newspaper-clippings, texts, illustration, pictures, photos and other materials. The site includes 20,000 news pieces and 800 photos.

Taiwan jihō 臺灣時報 (1898-1945)
Japanese-language journal published by the Japanese colonial government in Taiwan.

Taiwan nichinichi shinpō 臺灣日日新報 (1898-1944)
Official newspaper of Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period. Includes both Japanese (1898-1944) and Chinese (1905-1911) editions.Available from TTS.

United Daily News Group (UDNdata)$
In February 2001, UDN Online created their main Web site to provide over 8.3 million news articles published by the United Daily News Group, the largest news group in Taiwan. Recently it has launched its historical archive of content, including seven Chinese newspapers in Taiwan, Europe and North America. Coverage extends to the earliest issues, from 1951 to the present.

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.

Tibet

Tibet Mirror
This Tibetan-language newspaper was published from 1925 to 1963 in Kalimpong, India. Digitized by Columbia University, the collection's date range is from 1933 to 1961, and offers a total of 844 scanned pages drawn from the collections of the C. V. Starr East Asian Library.

Turkey

Milliyet
The archives (1950-2004) of this leading mainstream daily are now available online with full text searching and article views. Access is free, but registration is required.

National Library of Turkey : Periodicals Information System
Pages images of early Turkish newspapers, including Takvim-i Vekayi (the first newspaper printed in İstanbul), Ceride-i Havadis (the first contemporary non-official newspaper), and others. Available from the National Library of Turkey (Milli Kütüphane). Registration required.

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

17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers $
More than 1,200 titles of rare newspapers. Available for purchase via Gale Cengage.

19th Century British Library Newspapers  $
Searchable digital archive of more than 70 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.

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.

British Union of Fascists: newspapers and secret files $
Collection of papers published by the BUF in the 1930s. Includes Action (1936-1940), Blackshirt (1933-1939) and Fascist week (1933-1934), among others. Subscription database from Microform Academic Publishers.

Edinburgh Gazette
Official Newspaper of Record for Scotland.

The Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2006 $
Searchable archive of the Financial Times from 1888 to 2006. Available from Cengage Gale.

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

Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003 $
Full-text, full color digital archive. Availabel for purchase from Gale Cengage.

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

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.

Picture Post Historical Archive, 1938-1957 $
Available through Gale Cengage.

The Scotsman $
Digital archive 1817-1950.

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

UKPressOnline $
Searchable archive of several British publications, including Daily Mirror (1903-current), Daily Express (1900-current), and contemporary tabloids (Sunday Express, Daily Star).

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United States

By State

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.

African American Newspapers (1827-1998) $
Digitized collection of approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling the the African American experience. Available via purchase from Reaadex.

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 fee
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.

Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971
More than 130 fully searchable newspapers in 10 languages from 25 states covering many ethnic groups. Available from Readex.

GenealogyBank $
Commercial service from NewsBank, provides access to US newspaper archives for family history research. See title list for details.

Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 $
Digital collection of hundreds of Hispanic American newspapers. Available for purchase from Readex.

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 fee
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
The complete seventy-one-week run of the newspaper's World War I edition (1917-1918), provided by the Library of Congress.

See also Stars and Stripes digital archive $ from NewspaperARCHIVE.com, including newspapers published from 1948 through 1999 (European and Pacific editions).

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.

Alabama

Birmingham Iron Age
Searchable page images of Birmingham Iron Age and Weekly Iron Age, 1874-1887, digitized by the Birmingham Public Library.

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

Arizona Republican (1890-1922) $
Available through ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

Casa Grande Dispatch
Digital archive going back to 1912.

Arkansas

Arkansas Gazette, 1821-1900 $
Available through GenealogyBank, with other titles.

California

California Digital Newspaper Collection
California newspapers spanning the years 1846-1922. Contains titles such as the Amador Ledger (1900-1911); Daily Alta California (1849-1891); the Imperial Valley Press (1901-1911); the Los Angeles Herald (1905-1910); Pacifc Rural Press (1871-1922); Sacramento Daily Union (1851-1985); the San Francisco Call (1890-1910); and Sausalito News (1885-1922). Additional titles forthcoming.

Chung Sai Yat Po Newspaper Collection
This Online Archive of California collection contains nearly 1,500 items of this Chinese language San Franscisco-based title, published between 1900 and 1951.

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 from ProQuest Historical Newspapers (black 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.

Manzanar Free Press archive
Japanese Internment Camp newspaper. Official publication of the Manzanar Relocation Center Administration and newspaper of Manzanar Community Enterprises. Issues from Apr. 11-May 31, 1942, were printed at the Manzanar Assembly Center; issues from June 1, 1942-Sept. 8, 1945, were printed at the Manzanar Relocation Center.

Portuguese-American Digital Newspaper Collections
Portuguese language newspapers published in Massachusetts and California between 1885 and 1940.

San Francisco Chronicle, 1865-1922 $
Available from ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

Whittier Historical Newspaper Collection
PDF Page images of the Whittier Daily News and other titles, 1888-1942. Searchable by keyword or by year of publication.

Colorado

Colorado's Historic Newspapers Collection
Includes over 500,000 pages from more than 160 newspapers published in Colorado from 1859 to 1923. The project is now under the guidance of the Colorado State Library. Contains long runs of titles such as Akron Weekly Pioneer Press (1888-1923), Aspen Times Weekly (1881-1933), Colorado Transcript (1866-1930), Daily Journal (Telluride) (1896-1923), Fort Collins Courier (1878-1923), Rocky Mountain News (1860-1879), and Svensk Amerikanska Western (1890-1928). See also the 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.

Delaware

Newark Post
Weekly newspaper serving Greater Newark. Hosted by University of Delaware.

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.

The Southern new
Florida Southern College's student newspaper. Issues from the Child of the Sun period (a collection of Frank Lloyd Wright-designed university structures; 1935-1959) are being digitized first.

St. Petersburg Times
Available through Google News Archive. Currently diplays articles from May 1901 to August 2007. In Advanced Search, type "St. Petersburg Times " in the source field to search only this newspaper. Also included is the St. Petersburg Evening Independent from 1907 to its last edition in 1986 (?). See also the newspaper's web site.

Georgia

Georgia Historic Newspapers
This site provides access to several collections, including 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. Also available (through the Digital Library of Georgia) are the Columbus Enquirer and Macon Telegraph.

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, 1931-2003 $
Available from ProQuest Historical Newspapers (black newspapers).

Rome News-Tribune
Available through Google News Archive. In Advanced Search, type "Rome News-Tribune" in the source field to search only this newspaper.

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 from ProQuest Historical Newspapers (black 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.

Daily Herald newspaper archive $
Includes issues from 1901-2007. Available through NewspaperARCHIVE.com.

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).

Flora Public Library Digital Newspapers
Newspapers from Southern Illinois available from Flora Public Library.

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

Indiana Historic Newspaper Digitization Project
NEH-funded project to digitize 100,000 pages from Indiana titles between 1836 and 1922.

Indianapolis Star, 1903-1922 $
Available from ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

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

Adams County newspaper archives
Full-text searchable page images of the Adams County Free Press (1880-1998) and other titles.

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

Cedar Rapids Public Library newspaper archives
Full-text searchable page images of papers published in Cedar Rapids and other cities, covering 1857 to the present. Includes Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette (1884-1912), Des Moines News (1909-1921), Marion Sentinel (1837-1988) and other titles.

Charles City Daily Press, 1930-2007
Full-text searchable page images of the official newspaper of Floyd County [the archive currently only contains issues from 1930 and 1931].

Sioux County newspaper archives
Full-text searchable page images of papers published in Sioux County. Includes Alton Democrat (1885-1982), Sioux County Capital (1895-2000), and other titles.

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

Baltimore Afro-American, 1893-1988 $
Available from ProQuest Historical Newspapers (black newspapers).

Baltimore Sun, 1837-1985 $
Available through ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

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.

Portuguese-American Digital Newspaper Collections
Portuguese language newspapers published in Massachusetts and California between 1885 and 1940.

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

Michigan

Cass City newspapers from Rawson Memorial Library
Contains PDF images of the Cass City Chronicle (1981-2009) and Enterprise (1881-1906)

Commercial Record, 1868-1959
Browseable pages images of this title published in Saugatuck, MI. Some indexing included as well.

Detroit Free Press, 1831-1922 $
Available from ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

Grosse Pointe titles
Available through the Grosse Pointe Public Library, various titles including: Grosse Pointe News (1940-Present), Grosse Pointe Review (1930-1952), and Grosse Pointe Civic News (1923-1934).

Minnesota

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

Minnesota Digital Newspaper Project

Winona Newspaper Project
Searchable database of late 19th century and early 20th century Winona newspapers.  This archive includes available issues of the Winona Argus (1854 and 1857), the Winona Daily Republican (1860–1901), the Winona Republican-Herald (1901–1954), and the Winona Daily News (1954–1976).

Missouri

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

Missouri Digital Heritage
Online archive of historic newspapers from St. Louis and other locations.

Missouri Digital Newspaper Project
A growing collection of digitized historic newspapers.

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

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1874-1922 $
Available from proQuest Historical Newspapers.

Nebraska

Nebraska Digital Newspaper Project
Page images of newspapers published in Nebraska from 1874-1914.

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.

New Brunswick Daily Times
With partial funding from the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission, Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders, and the New Jersey Historical Commission/Department of State, and the permission of The Home News Tribune, the New Brunswick Public Library was able to digitized backfiles of the New Brunswick Daily Times from 1871 to 1916.

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.

Woodbridge Township Historic Newspapers
Ten titles in the digital collection, including Carteret Press and The Woodbridge Leader. Remote access is restricted.

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.

Hudson River Valley Historical Newspapers
Historical newspapers from the Hudson River Valley region of New York State. Covers historical as well as more recent titles.

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 (black newspapers).

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

New York State Historical Photos & Newspapers
Browseable archive of page images (in PDF), "1817-2007"

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.

New York Times Archive (1851-2006) $
Available through ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

New York Tribune, 1841-1922 $
Available through ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

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

Post Standard $
Includes the Syracuse Post-Standard (1875-2008) and other titles from the title's publishing history. Available through NewspaperARCHIVE.com.

Rochester Area Historic Newspaper Collection
Digitized Rochester historic newspapers.

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.

Village Voice
Available through Google News Archive, 1955-1978. In Advanced Search, type "Village Voice " in the source field to search only this newspaper.

North Carolina

North Carolina Newspaper Digitization Project
This project was completed in 2009 by the North Carolina State Archives, and includes over 20,00 keyword searchable images. Titles include the North-Carolina Gazette, 1787, The Western Carolinian, 1820-1842, and the Cape Fear Mercury, 1769-1775.

North Carolina Newspapers (DigitalNC)
A selection of student and community newspapers from schools and towns around North Carolina.

Ohio

Cincinnatti Enquirer, 1841-1922 $
Available through ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

Cleveland Call & Post, 1934-1991 $
Available from ProQuest Historical Newspapers (black newspapers).

Ohio's Digital Newspaper Program
Ohio's NDNP program has created a wiki-style website to list their available titles, including the Cincinnati Labor Advocate and the Akron Daily Democrat, as well as creating individual regional wikis with further title details.

Oklahoma

McAlester Newspaper Digitization Project
PDF files of select newspapers including McAlester Capital, McAlester Tribune, New Star Tribune and others.

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

Oregon

Historic Oregon Newspapers
Newspapers digitized as part of the Oregon Digital Newspaper Program (ODNP).

Pennsylvania

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

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 (1891-1940) from the Nazareth Memorial Library.

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

Pennsylvania Digital Newspaper Project
This site provides further information about Penn State's Pennsylvania Digital Newspaper Project, which is funded by the NEH. Newspapers chosen were published between 1880 and 1922 and will be available on the Chronicling America site. Titles included the Intelligencer and Pittsburg Dispatch.

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

Pennsylvania Historical Newspapers
Various titles scanned from the State Library of Pennsylvania. Includes Christian Observer, Lancaster Intelligencer, Marietta Register, State's Advocate, Sunday-school Times, and many others.

Philadelphia Tribune, 1912-2001$
Available from ProQuest Historical Newspapers (black newspapers).

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 (black newspapers).

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Available through Google News Archive. In Advanced Search, type "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette " in the source field to search only this newspaper.

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

S.C. Digital Newspaper Project

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 Newspapers, 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." Includes South Carolina Gazette (1732-1775) and others. Available via subscription from Accessible Archives.

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Tennessee

Nashville Tennessean, 1812-1922 $
Available from ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

Texas

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

Galveston County daily news $
Includes Galveston Daily News (1846-2009) and other papers. Available through NewspaperARCHIVE.com.

Portal to Texas History
Contains full-text searchable images of Texas newspapers, including Bartlett Tribune (1902-1972), Breckenridge Daily American (1922-1940), Hemphill County News (1939-1951), Telegraph & Texas Register (1835-1846), Tulia Herald (1918-1962), and many other early newspapers.

Texas Digital newspaper Program
Information on Texas' NDNP program, plus links to other digitized Texas newspapers..

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Utah

Deseret News
Available through Google News Archive, 1850-1988. In Advanced Search, type "Deseret News " in the source field to search only this newspaper.

Utah Digital Newspapers
Digitized searchable images of more than 40 Utah newspapers from 1850-1976. Includes the first newspaper published in the Utah Territory, Deseret News (1850-1910), Park Record (1881-1970), Times Independent (1919-1966), and Vernal Express (1892-1976).

Utah State University digital newspaper collection
The collection is divided into two sections: Logan's Historical Newspaper Collection (1879-1892 and 1893-1898), and Northern Utah's Digital Newspaper Collection.

Vermont

Vermont Digital Newspaper Project

Virginia

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

Norfolk Journal and Guide, 1921-2003 $
Availbel through ProQuest Historical Newspapers (black newspapers).

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.

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.

Capital Times and Wisconsin State Journal archives $
Includes Capital Times (1917-2007) and Wisconsin State Journal (1852-2009). Available through NewspaperARCHIVES.com.

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
Available through Google News Archive, 1884-1995. In Advanced Search, type "Milwaukee Sentinel" or "Milwaukee Journal" in the source field to search only this newspaper.

Wyoming

Wyoming Newspaper Project
Newspapers printed in Wyoming between 1849 and 1922

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