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America's Historical Newspapers
Contains digital copies of articles from about 1,000 American newspapers from all the current 50 states and the District of Columbia printed between 1690 and 1900, with strongest coverage of the first...
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America's Historical Newspapers
Contains digital copies of articles from about 1,000 American newspapers from all the current 50 states and the District of Columbia printed between 1690 and 1900, with strongest coverage of the first half of the 19th century.
Our subscription includes Series 1 and 2 of the publisher's Early American Newspapers series, described here by the publisher. Not every issue of every newspaper is available, but the publisher continues to fill gaps in the database.
Purchase was made possible, in part, by the President's Initiative Fund.
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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Ongoing project to "create a [free] national, digital resource of historically significant newspapers from all the states and U.S. territories published between 1836 and 1922."
As of March 2009, this site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1910 from selected states (California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia), with over 900,000 pages from 112 titles.
The project also provides a comprehensive directory of historic American newspapers.
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Early American Newspapers On Microfilm -- Various States
This is a list from Annie, the W&L library catalog, of the microfilm copies of various early American newspapers (not including Virginia newspapers) in the Leyburn Library collection. Early American newspapers from Virginia are listed here.
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Early American Newspapers On Microprint -- Virginia
This is a list from Annie, the W&L library catalog, of the microprint (not microfilm) copies of early Virginia newspapers in the Leyburn Library collection. Early American newspapers from other states are listed here.
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Farrar Collection Of Historical Newspapers
This work-in-progress is an index to a collection of about 1,500 historical newspaper issues donated to W&L by alumnus Fred Farrar. The issues in the collection cover "colonial, Early Republic and Victorian-era America," but also include some English and French materials.
If you have questions about this project, please contact Doug Cumming.
Users of this collection also may be interested in the library's microfilm holdings of early American newspapers from Virginia and other states.
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Harper's Weekly: The Civil War Era And Reconstruction (1857-1877)
Browse or search issues of Harper's Weekly, America's leading 19th century illustrated newspaper.
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Historical New York Times
The historical New York Times offers full page and article images from 1851 to 2001, with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
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Historical Washington Post
The historical Washington Post offers full page and article images from 1877 to 1988 with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
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Newspapers In Virginia Bibliography
A list of newspapers located within the state of Virginia that have been "cataloged and inventoried."
This database is used primarily to identify the newspapers published within a particular city or county in Virginia, or published in another U.S. state or foreign country. Entries trace title-changes of publications, but do not indicate which libraries own which issues. You probably can get more detailed information on any particular newspaper by using the Database.
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Newspapers In Virginia Database
A searchable database of catalog records of almost 6,000 newspaper titles housed within Virginia.
The information here is more detailed than in the Bibliography, but it is more difficult to identify all the publications from a particular city or county.
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Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800
Search the full text of one of the most important 18th century American newspapers.
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Richmond Daily Dispatch
Digitized copies of this Richmond, Virginia newspaper, dated November 1860 through December 1865. As of November 2006, there are 1,384 issues of the paper available online.
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Richmond Times Dispatch, Richmond News Leader Index
"This is primarily a subject only index to articles appearing in the Richmond-Times Dispatch and the Richmond News Leader between the 1940's and 1985."
This is not the same index as the microfiche "Freeman File," which covers much the same span of time in the same newspapers.
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