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Major Historical Titles
Chicago Defender (1905-1975) Chicago Tribune (1849-1985) Daily Illini (1916-1935) NEW Los Angeles Times (1881-1985) New York Times (1851-2003) Urbana Daily Courier (1916-1925) NEW Wall Street Journal (1889-1989) Washington Post (1877-1991) NEW	Irish Times (1859-current)‡ London Times (1785-1985) London Gazette (1900-1997)* Scotsman (1817-1950)‡ Atlanta Daily World (1932-2003) TRIAL‡‡ Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005) TRIAL‡‡ New York Amsterdan News (1922-1993)* TRIAL‡‡ Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)‡ TRIAL‡‡ *Best viewed with Internet Explorer. ‡May require a separate subscription. ‡‡On Trial through May 1, 2008. More info.

Major Digital Newspaper Collections

19th Century U.S. Newspapers
        A full-text searchable, facsimile-image database providing access to approximately 1.7 million pages of primary
        source U.S. newspaper content from the 19th century.

African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
        "This enormous collection of African-American newspapers contains a wealth of information about the cultural
        life and history during the 1800s"

American Periodicals Series (1740 - 1900)
        APS Online spans over 1,500 titles and 7 million pages of content, from the first American magazines, published
        in 1741, to the World War II period.

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

British Newspapers 1600-1900   NEW
        A full-text searchable database providing access to 3 centuries and approximately 3 million pages worth of historic
        newspapers, newsbooks and ephemera from the British Isles.

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (BETA)   NEW
        View newspaper pages from 1900 to 1910 from the following states: California, District of Columbia, Florida,
        Kentucky, New York, Utah, and Virginia. (More states will be added.) Also, find information about newspapers
        published in the United States from 1690 to the present in the Chronicling America Directory

Early American Newspapers: Series I (1690-1876)
        "Hundreds of historic newspapers listed in Clarence Brigham's authoritative bibliography and in additional
        subsequent bibliographies"

Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection NEW
The Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection (IDNC) contains digital facsimiles of historic Illinois newspapers, freely available over the web. This is a locally developed project of UIUC Library.

United States Digital Newspaper Collections

Barnstable Patriot Newspaper Archive
        From Barnstable County, on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. This archive covers issues from the paper's
        first century, 1830-1930.

     Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online
        Digitized pages of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York.

     Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection
        Includes 86 newspapers published in Colorado from 1859 to 1928.

     Flora Digital Newspapers
        An online archive of newspapers from Flora, Illinois, going back to 1907. Includes the Flora Journal-Record
        and the Southern Illinois Journal.

     Freedom's Journal
        Freedom's Journal was the first African-American owned and operated newspaper published in the US from
        1827 to 1829. All 103 issues have been digitized.   Volume 1 | Volume 2

     The Friend of Man at Cornell University Library
        A near-comprehensive collection of The Friend of Man, an early reform era and abolitionist paper published
        in Central New York State. The archive includes 281 issues, from 1836-1842.

     Historic Missouri Newspaper Project
        Online archive of historic newspapers from St. Louis and other locations throughout the state of Missouri.
        Some issues go back to the late 1800s.

Pennsylvania Civil War Newspapers
Online archive of select PA newspapers published during or around the time of the American Civil War.

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

Quincy Historical Newspaper Archive
Digital archive of the Quincy Daily Whig and Quincy Daily Herald from Qunicy, Illinois.

     Stars and Stripes
        The American Soldiers' newspaper of World War I. Includes the complete seventy-one-week run of
        the newspaper's World War I edition.

     University of Hawaii: Hawaiian Language Newspapers
        Online archive of several Hawaiian language newspapers

     Utah Digital Newspapers
        Digitized historic newspapers published in Utah during the late 1800's into the 1900's.

     Winona Newspaper Project
        A digital archive of three newspapers from Winona County, Minnesota: the Argus, the Daily Republican,
        and the Republican Herald. Contents span the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

International Digital Newspaper Collections

ANNO: AustriaN Newspaper Online
Includes archives of historical Austrian Newspapers, in German

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Bavarian State Library, includes archives of Coburger Zeitung, in German

     Bibliothèque Nationale de Luxembourg: Luxemburgensia Online
        National Library of Luxeumbourg, in French

     Compact Memory: Internetarchiv Jüdischer Periodika
        Archive of Jewish periodicals from 1806 to 1938, in German

     Early Hebrew Newspapers
        Archive of major titles of the early Hebrew press (19th and early 20th century).

     National Library of Greece: e-fimeris
        Online archive of several Greek historical newspapers. Links to English site.

     National Library of Latvia
        Online archive of several Latvian titles. Links to English site.

     Prince George Newspapers Project
        Daily newspaper covering Prince George, British Columbia, Canada. Includes every edition
        from their first year, 1916, through 1961.

     Projekt "Exilpresse Digital. Deutsche Exil-Zeitschriften 1933-1945"
       Online archive of newspapers from Germany's National Library. Links to English page.

     Special Editions of Canadian Newspapers
        From the National Library of Canada, this collection consists of special color supplements to historical
        newspapers published in Canada.

More Digital Newspaper Collections

Collegiate Newspapers
Online collections of several historical and current student newspapers

ICON's list of digital newspaper projects
International Coalition on Newspapers list of digital newspaper collections

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