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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
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- Alternate title
- Historic American Newspapers
- Browser required
- All images of historic newspaper pages, as well as uncorrected page
text, are displayed through your web browser and through Adobe Flash 8.0
or above. However, Chronicling America also contains
high-resolution images (JPEG2000) and enhanced text (PDF) that may
require special viewers. Follow the link below for information on the
various formats and how to access them:
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/help/#how_to_view
- Description
- Chronicling America is a searchable full-text collection of pages from more than 400
digitized newspapers from 23 states: Arizona, California, District of Columbia, Florida,
Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New York,
Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington.
Coverage ranges from 1860 to 1922 but varies for each newspaper. Content for additional time periods
and from all states and territories will eventually be included. Searches may be limited by state,
newspaper, or date.
The database also includes a separately searchable newspaper directory which provides information
about American newspapers published from 1690 to the present. Directory searches may be limited by
place of publication, date, keyword, frequency, language, and type of newspaper.
- Help
- FAQs, search instructions, and other help are available from the Help link on each page.
- For help using these indexes see: How do I find an article on my
topic?
- Dates covered
- 1860-1922 full-text, with directory information for newspapers published from 1690 to the present.
- Updating frequency
- Quarterly.
- Sources
- Newspapers. See: complete list
- Type of coverage
- Full-text in image format and directory information.
- Print counterpart or related resources
- Some titles may be available in microfilm or other format and may be found through a search of the
Library Catalog. Additional full-text newspaper
resources are available in the Current Events and
Newspapers section of the Indexes and Databases - General and Multidisciplinary database list.
- Producer/content provider
- National Digital Newspaper Program
- Vendor/electronic presentation provider
- Library of Congress
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