Newspaper Links of Old

There are thousands of newspapers that have yet to be scanned and made available online. You still need to know where they are and how to access them. Please use this list and let me know if you find other sites that are good repositories for further newspaper research. Your feedback is welcome. [*Note: you will need to copy/paste the links as I've not made them hotlinks. This information is for a handout that has been created for other purposes.*]



Google Index (International): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_archives_online

National Sites for research: A brief history of newspapers-Historic Newspapers: http://www.historicpages.com/nprhist.htm

Visualization of newspapers spread from east to west; Data Visualization:
Journalism’s Voyage West: http://www.stanford.edu/group/ruralwest/cgi-bin/drupal/visualizations/us_newspapers

Newspapers in Microform, LOC: http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/news_research_tools/newspapersinmf.html

Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/extnewsp.html

Start & Stripes: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/

Library of Congress, Chronicling of America: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ (26 states with newspapers from 1836-1922)

Library of Congress, browsable newspapers listed by state: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/

Library of Congress, U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/titles/

Newspaper Program: http://www.neh.gov/projects/usnp.html

Newspaper Abstracts:  http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/

Repository of Primary Sources:  http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html

United States Newspaper Program: http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/usnp/usnpp.html

US Newspaper Links: current newspapers (not inclusive list): http://www.usnpl.com/

US Full-Text Newspaper Databases: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/news/db.html

Readex: Early American Newspapers, 1690-1876: http://www.newsbank.com/readex/?content=96

Small Town Papers: $$$ http://www.smalltownpapers.com/
www.GenealogyBank.com $$$
www.footnote.com/
www.newspaperarchive.com $$$ (Allows up to 3 look ups per day, free)

Cyndi’s List, Newspapers: http://www.cyndislist.com/newspapers

Ancestry.com $$$: http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=50000&enc=1

Rootsweb Newspaper Indexes: http://userdb.rootsweb.ancestry.com/news/

Google News Archive Service: http://news.google.com/archivesearch

GenealogyBuff.com – US newspaper list

US Newspaper Indexes in Olin University: http://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/ref/olindexes.html

****US Online Historical Newspapers:
****https://sites.google.com/site/onlinenewspapersite/Home/usa

Newspapers, date of Statehood in parentheses.  ILL equals Inter Library Loan.
Alabama: (1819) ILL
AL Dept. of Archives and History:
http://www.archives.state.al.us/dataindex.html
Birmingham Public Library: http://www.bham.lib.al.us/ (See databases on that site)

Alaska: (1959) ILL
Alaska's Newspapers on Microfilm: http://www.library.state.ak.us/hist/newspaper/news.html
Alaska Newspaper Index: http://www.eed.state.ak.us/lam/newspapers.cfm Tundra Times: http://ttip.tuzzy.org/

Arizona: (1912) ILL
Arizona Newspaper Project: http://www.lib.az.us/anp/
Mesa FamilySearch Library Obituary Search: http://mesarfhc.org/search/azobits.htm

Arkansas: (1836) Arkansas History Commission: http://www.ark-ives.com/documenting/newspapers.asp
Princeton University Library: African American Newspapers, 1829- present: http://libguides.princeton.edu/aas

California: (1850) California State Library, Sutro: http://www.library.ca.gov/calhist/newspaper.html (ILL only "non-rare materials,")
California Newspaper Project:  http://cnp.ucr.edu/
California Digital Newspaper Collection: http://cdnc.ucr.edu/newsucr
The Bancroft Library, University of California Berkley: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
El Clamor Publico: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search/controller/collection/clamor-m235.html

Colorado: (1876)
Colorado Historical Society:  http://www.coloradohistory.org/chs_library/research_coll_files/rc_newspapers.htm
Colorado newspaper online (today’s newspapers) http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/usstate/uscolora.htm

Connecticut: (1788)
Connecticut State Library: ILL: http://www.cslib.org/cnp.htm
Connecticut Newspaper Indexes: http://www.cslib.org/newspaper/indexes.htm
Newspaper of Connecticut: http://cslib.cdmhost.com/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15019coll9

Delaware: (1787)
University of Delaware Library: ILL http://www2.lib.udel.edu/delnews/
UDel, Microfilmed Newspaper List: http://www2.lib.udel.edu/delnews/list.htm Historical Society of Delaware: http://www.hsd.org/ [“Newspaper” in search box]

District of Columbia:
D.C. Public Library: http://www.h-net.org/~dclist/dcplnews1.pdf
D.C. Public Library Special Collections: http://dclibrary.org/research/collections

Florida: (1845)
State Library of Florida: ILL http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/fgils/flnews2.html State Library of Florida, Florida Collection: http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/library/FLCollection/newspapers.cfm
Florida History in Newspapers: http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/newspap.html
Boca Raton Historical Society: http://www.bocahistory.org/boca_history/br_history_newpaper.asp
Florida Digital Newspaper Library: http://ufdc.ufl.edu/?c=fdnl1

Georgia: (1788)
University of Georgia: ILL http://www.libs.uga.edu/gnp/
Digital Library of Georgia: [very long link] http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/CollectionsA-Z/zlgn_information.html?Welcome&Welcome&Welcome **Search engine for Digital Library** http://neptune3.galib.uga.edu/ssp/cgi-bin/ftaccess.cgi?_id=7f000001&dbs=ZLGN
Georgia Historic Newspapers: http://atlnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/atlnewspapers/search
UofGA Libraries, Microfilm Holdings: http://www.libs.uga.edu/gnp/titlelist.html

Hawaii: (1959) (NO ILL)
Hawaii State Archives: http://hawaii.gov/dags/archives
Hawaiian Historical Society: http://www.hawaiianhistory.org/
Hawaiian Language Newspaper Index: http://libweb.hawaii.edu/digicoll/newspapers.htm
University of Hawaii: http://library.manoa.hawaii.edu/research/digicoll.html Hawai’i Newspaper Indexes: http://www.hawaii.edu/emailref/instruction/guides/hni.pdf

Idaho: (1890) (Edit>Search>Newspapers)
Idaho State Historical society: Some ILL http://history.idaho.gov/archives-collections

Illinois: (1818)
Illinois Historic Preservation Agency: ILL http://www.state.il.us/hpa/lib/Microfilm.htm
Illinois Newspaper Project: ILL http://www.library.illinois.edu/inp/microfilm.php
Chicago’s, Hyde Park Herald: http://www.hpherald.com/archive/
Barrington Area History: http://barringtonarealibrary.org/local-history.html Farm, Field & Fireside; Agricultural Newspaper Collection: http://www.library.illinois.edu/dnc/Default/Skins/FFF/Client.asp?Skin=FFF&AppName=2&AW=1347931968438
Flora Journal-Record: http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/search/collection/fpl01 Quincy Historical Newspaper Archive: http://www.quincylibrary.org/library_resources/newspaperArchive.asp

Indiana: (1816)
Indiana State Library: ILL http://www.in.gov/library/3006.htm
Indiana Historical Society: http://www.indianahistory.org/ [‘newspaper’ in search box]
Indiana University, Bloomington: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=3089
Indianapolis Newspapers Database, 1848-1991: http://208.119.72.68/IndyNews/1848_1991_search.asp
Depauw University, Digital Archives: http://digital.library.depauw.edu/

Iowa: (1846)
State Historical Society of Iowa: ILL$ http://www.iowahistory.org/libraries/newspaper-search.html
Barnard Bulletin, Digital Archives: http://barnardcollege.newspaperarchive.com/Default.aspx
Floyd County: http://cc.newspaperarchive.com/
Sioux County Index, The: http://siouxcounty.newspaperarchive.com/

Kansas: (1861)
Kansas State Historical Society: http://www.kshs.org/p/newspapers-in-kansas/11528
Kansas Public Library: http://www.kckpl.lib.ks.us/kansas-collection/topic/genealogy-resources.aspx

Kentucky: (1792)
University of Kentucky Libraries: ILL http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/NDNP/kycollections.html
Kentucky GenWeb:  http://www.kygenweb.net/counties/ukfilm.html

Louisiana: (1812) ILL
Louisiana State University: http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/lnp/ft/ftsearch.php
The New Orleans Bee: http://www.jefferson.lib.la.us/genealogy/NewOrleansBeeMain.htm

Maine: (1820) ILL
University of Maine, Fogler Library: http://library.umaine.edu/speccoll/newspapers.htm
Maine UsGenWeb: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~megenweb/newspaper/project/

Maryland: (1788)
Maryland State Archives:  http://speccol.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/speccol/catalog/newspapers/cfm/index.cfm
Maryland State Archives - by County: http://speccol.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/speccol/catalog/newspapers/cfm/dsp_county.cfm
Frederick County Public Libraries: http://fredericknewspost.newspaperarchive.com/Default.aspx
University of Maryland, Periodicals and Newspapers: http://lib.guides.umd.edu/content.php?pid=131120&sid=1149455

Massachusetts: (1788)
Boston Public Library: ILL http://www.bpl.org/research/microtext/news.htm  State Library of Massachusetts: http://www.mass.gov/portal/  
In Search box, input: ‘Historical Newspapers’ Massachusetts Newspapers Index & Database: http://www.mass-doc.com/news_indexes.htm

Michigan: (1837)
Michigan State University: http://libguides.lib.msu.edu/content.php?pid=61656&sid=454236
Michigan, Otsego County Newspaper Archive: http://66.129.39.201:8080/docushare/dsweb/HomePage
Michigan, Farmington – Historical Newspaper Collection: http://www.farmlib.org/localhist/
Western Michigan Newspapers, 1910-2012: http://data.wmgs.org/Newspapers/FMPro?-token=114887&-db=Newspapers&-format=search.htm&-findall

Minnesota: (1858)
University of Minnesota: https://www.lib.umn.edu/libdata/page.phtml?page_id=942
Minnesota Historical Society (‘Newspapers’ over half way down the page): http://www.mnhs.org/library/tips/personal/guide.html
Winona Newspaper Project: http://www.winona.edu/library/databases/winonanewspaperproject.htm
Minneapolis Central: Labor Review: http://www.minneapolisunions.org/labor_review_archive_about.php

Mississippi: (1817)
Mississippi Department of Archives and History: http://zed.mdah.state.ms.us/

Missouri: (1821)
Missouri History Museum – Digitized St. Louis Newspapers: http://www.mohistory.org/node/7179
Missouri Digital Heritage – Search engine for site: http://cdm.sos.mo.gov/cdm4/search.php
Missouri Newspaper Card File Indexes: http://shs.umsystem.edu/newspaper/newscardfiles.shtml
State Historical Society of Missouri: ILL http://shs.umsystem.edu/newspaper/index.shtml

Montana: (1889)
Montana Historical Society: http://mhs.mt.gov/research/library/pamphletsguides.asp

Nebraska: (1867)
Nebraska State Historical Society: ILL                   http://www.nebraskahistory.org/lib-arch/research/library/newspapr.htm Nebraska Newspaper Extraction Project: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/topic/newspapers/NSHS/nshsnews.htm

Nevada: (1864)
Nevada State Library:         http://nsla.nevadaculture.org//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1210
University of Nevada, Las Vegas: http://www.library.unlv.edu/collections/micro/nevnews/                                                                        

New Hampshire: (1788)
New Hampshire Historical Society: http://www.nhhistory.org/orginfo.html New Hampshire State Library: http://www.nh.gov/nhsl/services/public/newspapers.html

New Jersey: (1787)
New Jersey Historical Society: http://www.jerseyhistory.org/search.php?sstring=newspapers
Middle Tennessee State University: http://ulibnet.mtsu.edu/microtext/st/nj.html
New Jersey Newspapers: http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/scua.shtml

New Mexico: (1912)
New Mexico Newspaper Project: http://econtent.unm.edu/cdm4/index_NewMexicoNewspapers.php

New York: (1788)
New York State Newspaper Project: ILL http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/nysnp/ New York Historical Society: https://www.nyhistory.org/web/default.php?section=library&page=research_guides#
Pro-Quest: Historical New York Newspapers: http://historynews.chadwyck.com/home/home.cgi?source=config2.cfg Brooklyn Daily Eagle: http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/Default/Skins/BEagle/Client.asp?Skin=BEagle&AppName=2&GZ=T&AW=1347587432015 Huron River Valley Historical Newspapers: http://news.hrvh.org/
Ithaca College, The Ithican: Historical Issues in a Digital Version: http://www.ithacalibrary.com/archives/ithacan.php
Cornell University - The Cornell Daily Sun Digitization Project: http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/
Suffolk Historic Newspapers: http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Default/Skins/Suffolk/Client.asp?Skin=Suffolk&AppName=2&AW=1347932317273

North Carolina: (1789)
North Carolina Newspaper Project: ILL http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/ghl/resources/newspapers.html
North Carolina Newspaper Digitization: http://www.archives.ncdcr.gov/newspaper/index.html
North Carolina Digital: http://library.digitalnc.org/cdm/search/searchterm/Newspapers/field/format/mode/exact/

North Dakota: (1889)
State Historical Society of North Dakota: http://history.nd.gov/archives/whatnewspapers.html

Ohio: (1803) ILL$
The Ohio Historical Society: http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/newspaper/home.cfm Ohio Newspaper Index: http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/database/news.html
Ohio Obituary Index: http://index.rbhayes.org/hayes/index/record_detail.asp?id=1479429

Oklahoma: (1907)
Oklahoma Historical Society: http://okhistory.cuadra.com/star/public.html University of Oklahoma Libraries, Western History Collections:  http://digital.libraries.ou.edu/sooner/search.asp?term=newspapers&name=Go The Gateway to Oklahoma History: http://gateway.okhistory.org/

Oregon: (1859) ILL
Newspapers on Microfilm: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/govdocs/micro/papers.htm
Oregon Newspaper Microfilming Project: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/govdocs/micro/pos.htm
Oregon Newspaper Index: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/govdocs/micro/nindex.htm
Genealogical Forum of Oregon-Oregon Obituary Index: http://www.gfo.org/obits/index.htm

Pennsylvania: (1787)
Free Library of Philadelphia: http://libwww.library.phila.gov/faq/guides/genealogy/newspapers.cfm?FAQCategory=19
Penn Libraries: http://gethelp.library.upenn.edu/guides/philadelphia/phnews.html

Rhode Island: (1790)
Middle Tennessee State University:  http://ulibnet.mtsu.edu/microtext/st/ri.html
Rhode Island Historical Society: http://www.rihs.org/refnews&per.htm

South Carolina: (1788)
South Carolina State Library: http://www.statelibrary.sc.gov/south-carolina-obituary-resources
South Carolina Historical Society: http://www.southcarolinahistoricalsociety.org/
Middle Tennessee State University: http://ulibnet.mtsu.edu/microtext/st/sc.html

South Dakota: (1889)
South Dakota State Historical Society:  http://history.sd.gov/
South Dakota State Library: http://library.sd.gov/LIB/ERD/access/complete.aspx

Tennessee: (1796)
Tennessee State Library & Archives:    http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/history/newspapers/index.htm                        
Tennessee State Library & Archive: http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/history/newspapers/tn-obits.htm          

Texas: (1845)
Dallas Public Library: http://www.dallaslibrary2.org/texas/newspapers.htm
Texas State Library: https://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/news.html
University of Texas, Austin: http://www.cah.utexas.edu/services/finding_items/newspapers.php
Portal of Texas: Texas: The Portal to Texas History-Newspapers [above search box]
 
Utah: (1896)
Utah State Historical Society: http://history.utah.gov/research_and_collections/collections/search/newspapers/index.html
Finding aid at USHS: http://history.utah.gov/findaids/index.html [scroll down to Collections]

Vermont: (1791)
Vermont Newspaper Project: http://library.uvm.edu/vtnp/
Burlington Free Press/Rutland Herald Index: http://bfprhdindex.uvm.edu/      Vermont Genealogy: http://community.middlebury.edu/~swilson/introvc.html Old Newspaper Collections Project: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/niagara/news/vt/index.html

Virginia: (1788)
University of Mary Washington: http://libguides.umw.edu/newspapers
The Virginia Newspaper Project: http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/using_collections.asp#_guides-NewspapersandMagazines
Fairfax County, Virginia – Historical Newspaper index with over 1M records from 10 papers. http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/branches/vr/newsindex/
Virginia Tech |American Civil War Newspapers: https://dcr.emd.vt.edu/vital/access/manager/Index
Virginia Gazette, 1736-1780: http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/BrowseVG.cfm

Washington: (1889) ILL
Washington State Library: http://www.sos.wa.gov/history/genealogy.aspx University of Washington: http://depts.washington.edu/mcnews/indexes/newsguide.htm
Walla Walla, WA, WWII Airport Newspaper Archives: http://www.wallawallaairport.com/archives/default.htm

West Virginia: (1863) ILL
West Virginia University Libraries: http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/collections/collection.php?id=48
West Virginia State Archives: http://www.wvculture.org/history/newspapers/newsmic.html

Wisconsin: (1847) ILL
Wisconsin Historical Society Library: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/collections/news.asp
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wlhba/

Wyoming: (1890)
Wyoming State Archives: http://micrographics.state.wy.us/index.aspx Wyoming Newspaper Project: http://www.wyonewspapers.org/

African-American Newspapers and Periodicals
Wisconsin Historical Society: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/aanp/freedom/
The Friend of Man: http://fom.library.cornell.edu/

Ethnic Newspaper:
Connecticut’s Ethnic Newspapers: http://www.cslib.org/newspaper/ethnic.htm
Pacific Northwest and Minority: http://db.lib.washington.edu/press/ Immigration History Research Center: http://www.ihrc.umn.edu/
Duke University; Jewish Studies: http://library.duke.edu/research/subject/guides/jewishstudies/general_resources/newspapers/index.html

Foreign: Canadian:
Saskatchewan GenWeb-ILL  http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cansk/Saskatchewan/newspaper.html
Canada/Austria/Britain/Ireland: (1/3  way down page) ‘The Press in America’ & ‘Newspaper Collections’ & ‘American Newspapers’ – some links broken as page is ‘old’ http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rwguide/lesson20.htm Quebec Collections: http://www.banq.qc.ca/collections/collection_numerique/index.html?categorie=6
Manitoba Digital Resources: http://manitobia.ca/content/en/newspapers

International Coalition on Newspapers: http://icon.crl.edu/digitization.htm

Irish Newspaper Archives: http://www.irishnewsarchive.com/

Hartland Forum: http://www.hartlandforum.co.uk/News1.htm

Papers Past – New Zealand newspapers, 1839-1945: http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast

National Library of Singapore: http://newspapers.nl.sg/default.aspx

And last but least, before you throw in the towel, Google the name you are seeking with quotes.