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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers



Unrestricted Access

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.

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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 . 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