Everett Library: News Sources: Historical Newspaper Archives (2024)

FAQs

How can I access newspaper archives for free? ›

Google News Archive is an extension of Google News. It provides free access to scanned archives of newspapers and links to other newspaper archives on the web, both free and paid. Some of the news archives date back to the 18th century. There is a timeline view available to help you select news from a specific period.

Newspapers.com is the largest online newspaper archive consisting of 300+ million pages of historical newspapers from 11,100+ newspapers from around the United States and beyond, with a special focus on full runs and portions of runs of well-known, regional and state titles in addition to small local newspapers.

Google News, Trove, Library of Congress, NewspaperARCHIVE, and Ancestry.com can journey you back in time so that you may view events through old newspapers. Additionally, archives from well-known news organizations contribute to this search.

Consider visiting your City Library or University Library, I bet periodical section has a bunch of stocked newspapers and magazines. I'd check with microfilm companies. They often get old newspapers and magazines sent to them to put on microfilm, but their customers don't want the original paper copies back.

Public libraries and archives throughout the United States offer access to collections of historical newspapers. Before starting your research, contact your local library or archive to see if they have digital archives you can look at. In many cases, historical newspapers are available solely on microfilm.

The Google newspaper archive project was discontinued by Google many years ago but, although they stopped digitizing and adding new papers and removed their useful timeline and other search tools, the historical newspapers that were previously digitized remain.

Newspapers.com Library Edition is an extensive online database of 3,000+ historical newspapers from the early 1700s into the early 2000s. It contains a diverse blend of well-known regional and local newspapers in the U.S. and other countries.

Print Collections

See the "Historical Newspaper Lists by Century" section below for lists of titles organized by place and available dates. Additionally, newspapers are cataloged by title in the Library of Congress Online Catalog.

If you're looking for a smaller local newspaper, try contacting that city, town, or region's nearest public library. Local papers are usually microfilmed and archived by local libraries, and reference librarians there can tell you about their holdings and if there is an index to help you find articles.

How do you get past newspaper articles? ›

The British Library's newspaper collections are among the finest in the world, containing most of the runs of newspapers published in the UK since 1800. 1900 and titles from cities such as Birmingham, Derby, Manchester, Nottingham, Norwich, Leeds and York, along with local titles from London boroughs.

PressReader provides FREE digital access to thousands of newspapers and magazines from around the world, included your favourite local newspapers. Read now, or download for later and instantly translate articles in up to 18 languages on many titles. Say hello to unlimited reading!

Use the Google News archive for an easy, searchable experience. This search engine allows you to enter the subject you want to research to find old newspaper articles about that subject. To explore the archive search engine, open your web browser and go to news.google.com/archivesearch.

A wide variety of free newspapers can be found in the United States. These include daily news- papers like the geographic-specific Vail Daily in Colorado and Metro, a tabloid-sized daily that targets commuters in New York City, Philadelphia, and Boston.

Any newspaper issue published before 1923 is out of copyright and can be freely reproduced. Newspapers published after 1922 are potentially copyrighted and can only be digitized if their copyright was not renewed and a copyright notice was not provided in the paper.