Nice Reference Site(s)
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A whole bunch of newspaper archive sites. Links tend to have a habit of being re-organized/updated/changed on a regular basis, so some of these may be dead since I last checked.
If some are dead, let me know and I'll see if I can track down the new sites.
Nationwide U.S.
SmallTownPapers.com
This looks to be a growing collection that has sporadic coverage all over the US, with some (not many) issues dating back to the mid 1800's. Limited text search function.
Northwest History Database
Searchable collection of Northwest newspaper clippings. The date range is very poorly described, but seems to be early 20th century.
Alabama
Birmingham Iron Age, 1874-1887. A weekly newspaper from the very early days of this city. The collection is incomplete, but offers full text searching and full page images. Clippings from magazines and other newspapers are also part of the collection, provided by the Birmingham Public Library.
Assorted Birmingham, AL Newspaper Clippings from the Birmingham Public Library. Search on article descriptions; not clear which papers or date ranges are covered.
Alaska
The Tundra Times, 1962-1997 (Fairbanks). This is an odd archive, as it is a combination of article clippings and full page images. Still, it is (so far) the only free newspaper archive available from Alaska, courtesy of the Tuzzy Consortium Library.
Arkansas
The Journal-Advance (1869-1949), in Gentry (originally Orchard City) offers a detailed look at news from the Ozarks. The paper is also known as the Courier-Journal.
Florida
Florida Digital Newspaper Library archives, early 1800's to current. There's a lot here, though the collection is not well-described. Full text search and full image retrieval.
Boca Raton, FL newspaper archives, 1930's-current, courtesy of the Boca Raton Historical Society.
Central Florida Memory Newspaper Clippings. Assorted digital files, including a mish-mash of a few thousand newspaper items. Includes 19th century Lochmede Winter Park newspaper.
The Southern Israelite (1929-1958, 1984-1986). Printed in Augusta and Atlanta, this newspaper is a reflection of the Jewish community during a time of Hitler, WWII, the Holocaust, and the formation of Israel. An important historical resource.
Hawaiian Language Nupepa Collection, 1834-1948
More Hawaiian language newspapers, mostly in image format, but with some word searching.
Illinois
Barrington Review, Barrington, IL, 1914-1930
Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection, 1903-1945, at the University of Illinois
Currently carries the Daily Illini, the Urbana Daily Courier, and Express (from Tallula), in full page image format, with full text searching.
Quincy Illinois Historical Newspaper Archive 1835-1890
Flora Public Library Digital Newspapers, 1883-1926 (southern Illinois). An intermittent collection, including the Southern Illinois Record, and Flora Journal Record.
The Sterling, IL Newspaper Archives, 1854-2007. Includes the Sterling Gazette, Sauk Valley Sunday, and others.
Dziennik Zwiazkowy, a Polish language newspaper from Chicago, 1908-1917
(site was not working when last I checked).
The Farm, Field and Fireside Collection at the University of Illinois, 1841-1939. What a lovely find. A century of rural newspapers geared towards farmers. Publications seem to be mostly weeklies from Illinois, but include other states as well. Newspapers include Better Farming, Farmers Voice, Illinois Farmer, Prarie Farmer, and even the Farmer's Wife.
North Surburban Library System, IL (outside of Chicago). Incredible mish mash of thousands of newspaper articles, along with other digital archives, but no real description...you just have to browse around to see what's what.
Indiana
Muncie Post Democrat Newspaper Collection at Ball State University, 1921-1950
Full text searching and full page PDFs. Not the friendliest interface, though.
Evansville Press, ?-1998. A local clippings collection, searchable by title and keyword. Collection is not well-described, but includes a lot of material on the University of Indiana, especially basketball.
Vevay/Switzerland County Newspapers, 1840-1901. Scanned newspaper pages (no text search, no keywords) from the Switzerland Co. HS. Archives include The Vevay Times and Switzerland County Democrat, and The Vevay Reveille.
Iowa
Adams County, Iowa Newspaper Archives, 1876-2000
Cedar Rapids Library Newspaper Archives includes a number of Iowa newspapers, 1857-1998.
Charles City Daily Press, Floyd County, 1930-1931.
Sioux County Newspaper Archives, in Iowa, from 1872-2000.
The Des Moines Newspaper Archives, 1970-2007. Includes West Des Moines Express, Polk County News, and others.
The Malvern and Mills County Archives, 1864-2002. Includes the Malvern Leader, Mills County Journal, and others.
The Carroll Newspaper Archives, 1884-2007. The Carroll Daily Times Herald and other papers. Archives also include detailed early atlases of Carroll County.
The Buffalo Center Tribune, 1894-2003.
The Muscatine City Directories, 1856-1959. No newspapers here, but a terrific set of directories from the Musser Library.
Kansas
Kansas Memory Digital Archives covers a smattering of 19th and early 20th century digital materials, including a few newspapers, which appear to include several hundred article clippings overall. Papers include the Wichita Eagle, Topeka Journal, Lawrence Daily Journal, and others.
Kentucky
The Kentuckiana Digital Library has newspaper archives from 1886-1912 for papers across Kentucky, from the Bluegrass Blade in Lexington to the Owensboro Vindicator. Full text searching, but an awkward interface.
Northern Kentucky Newspaper Index, 1841-current. An odd mix of full image searchable newspapers, and newspaper indexes. Use the "full text" option to restrict results to images. Collection from the Kenton Library.
Louisiana
Louisiana Newspaper Access Program, 19th and early 20th century. Part of the Louisiana Digital Library Collection, this is an interesting hodge-podge collection of English and French language news, with a not terribly friendly user interface.
New Orleans Bee, 1827-1923. From the Jefferson Parish Library, this English and French newspaper is a rich slice of history, but unfortunately, only browseable by date, with no text search offered.
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, and Harper's Weekly Journal, late 19th century. Also from the Louisian Digital Library Collection, these appear to be images only.
Maryland
The Marlyland State Archives have several newspapers online, mostly from the 1800's, though a few spill into early 1900's and one has issues from 1965. These are digitized directly from microfilm, and can be browsed by date, but not searched.
Massachusetts
[URL="http://www.sturgislibrary.org/collections/barnstable-patriot"]Barnstable, MA, on Cape Cod, has the Barnstable Patriot from 1830-1930, the Hyannis Patriot, and the Sandwich Observer, all with full text searching, courtesy of the Sturgis Library.
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Provincetown Banner and The Advocate, 1918 and 1931-67 (but missing 1935). Full text searching, and full image retrieval.
Diario de Noticias/Alvaro Diaria, 1919-1973 (in Portugese). From the Claire T. Carney Library at UMass, an important resource for the Portugese-American community in New Bedford, with a rather complex search interface.
Michigan
The Saugatuck-Douglas Library in Michigan has digitized the Commercial Record, 1868-1959. Keyword searching available, for this lumber and shipping community on Lake Michigan.
Minnesota
Holt Weekly News and Northern Light, 1911-1952. From the "Home of the Largest Co-operative Creamery in Marshall County" a terrific rural newspaper archive.
The Winona State University Newspaper Archives in Minnesota include several papers from 1855-1946. This is a surprisingly rich collection.
Missouri
Missouri Newspaper Archives appear to cover late 1800's to current, but dates not well described
Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune, 1889-2008. A substantial archive of essentially two newspapers that eventually merged into one.
Nevada
Las Vegas Age newspaper archives in Nevada, 1905-1924, with some gaps in coverage. Searching is on keywords rather than full text.
The Big Job, and Basic Bombardier newsletters, 1940s, from the BMI magnesium plant in Henderson, NV during WWII. The plant made millions (billions?) of tracer bullets for the war effort.
New Hampshire
New Hampshire Gazette, the first newspaper printed in New Hampshire. Only one 4-page newspaper is here, but it's from 1756, and worth a look.
New Jersey
Cranbury Press, Cranbury, NJ, from 1886-1926, courtesy of the Cranbury Historical and Preservation Society.
Atlantic County, NJ (includes Atlantic City), 1860-1923
Red Bank Register, (Middletown, NJ) 1878-1947. Full text searching. Additional dates to be added, to bring the collection through 1991.
South Amboy Citizen, 1910-1944. Full page image, browse by date, only.
The New Brunswick Daily Times and other area papers, 1871-1908.
New York
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1841-1902
A great glimpse into 19th century New York.
The New York Times archives, 1853-current.
All papers before 1923 are available free, and select papers after that date are also free. Use the site's pull-down menu to select date ranges.
Northern New York newspaper archives, 1844-2004
A scattered assortment of newspapers; can only be searched on paper at a time.
Freedom's Journal, 1827-1829, the nation's first African-American newspaper, published out of New York City. Housed at the Wisconsin Historical Society, these archives can be viewed and searched issue by issue, but there is no archive-wide search function.
The Friend of Man, 1836-1842, Central New York. An anti-slavery newspaper, archived at Cornell University.
Suffolk County, Long Island, NY, roughly 1830's-1906, a good, diverse collection.
Old New York State Historical Newspaper Pages, 18th-20th centuries. This has to be one of the oddest archives I know of, but with 10 million-plus newspaper pages from all over NY, it's certainly a very valuable one. Be sure to view the FAQ for a description of what's what.
Rochester area newspapers, from Monroe County Library, ca 1800's. This is a very poorly-described and implemented collection of assorted newspapers, mostly individual issues, including Frederick Douglass' Paper, along with the Rochester Daily Democrat, The Rights of Man, and the Monroe Democrat. There are also a few magazines, such as the Rochester Gem, and various local directories.
North Dakota
Frontier Scout, North Dakota's first newspaper, 1864-65. About 20 issues are available online in full image format, but they are not searchable.
Ohio
Cleveland Press, 1878-1982. Digitized article clippings, with full text search. Incredibly, many of the articles do not show the date!
Oklahoma
The Oklahoman, 1901-current. This is a fee-based archive, but can be searched for free, and headlines retrieved (the searching has been very slow on the few times I've visited).
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh, PA Jewish Newspaper Project, 1895-Present. Includes three publications.
Philadelphia Inquirer Civil War Archive, from a Northern perspective, 1860-1865
Lancaster County, PA Newspaper Archives, 1816-1889, and 1915-2001. Several newspapers online, including the curiously-named Columbia Spy.
Tioga County, PA Newspaper Archives, 1838-2006, courtesy of the Green Free Public Library in Wellsboro, PA.
Penn State Newspaper Archives, offers several papers in their Civil War collection, along with archives of student newspapers, and clippings from Lancaster Farming from the 1950's onward.
Smethport, PA newspaper archives, McKean County, 1833-1977. More than a dozen papers here, many of them with a heavy focus on the mining industry, and all courtesy of the Hamlin Memorial Library.
Pennsylvania Digital Archive, includes the Nazareth Item (1891-1975) and the new Holland Clarion in Lancaster County (1873-1950), along with many other digitized archives. Good collection, but not well-described or user friendly.
Pennsylvania Civil War Newspaper Archives, 1831-1877. Assorted papers from this period in US history; includes eight papers from Gettysburgh. Full page images and full text search.
The Chester, PA newspaper archives, 1876-1976, including the Chester Times, Delaware County Daily Times, and others. From the Delaware County Library.
Access Pennsylvania Digital Repository. This is a real hodge-podge, and hard to describe, but there's a lot here, newspapers and otherwise. Looks to be mostly 19th and early 20th centuries. To find (mostly) just newspapers, used Advanced Search and enter newspaper and choose Description as the field to search on.
Ambler Gazette, 1894-1931. From the Wissahickon Valley Public Library in Montgomery County, a cumbersome archive (sorry!) browseable by date.
South CarolinaThe New South newspaper archives, 1862-1866, published in Port Royal and Beaufort, during the Civil War. Archive is full-text searchable.
Texas
San Antonio, TX Daily Light, 1886-1907.
The Weimar Mercury, and other area papers, 1885-1960, from the collection of the Nesbitt Memorial Library.
The Wellington Leader, 1909-2006, from the Collingsworth Public Library.
Archives of the La Marque Times, 1970-1998.
Utah
Utah Digital Newspapers Collection, varied papers, approx 1850s-1950s
Utah newspapers from the Mormon school, Brigham Young University. Dates and collections are not well described, but look to be mostly 19th century; papers include Daily Enquirer, Deseret News, and the Rigby Star. Click on Newspapers in the Collections by Format box.
Virginia
Richmond Then and Now, 1860-1989. A small collection of articles covering the history of this storied city. Text-only.
Virginia Gazette, 1736-1780. An important 18th century resource from the Revolutionary War era, users can browse by date or search articles by a master index.
Richmond Daily Dispatch, 1860-1865. Another smallish collection, covering the Civil War (or the War Between the States) from a Confederate perspective.
Washington
Washington State Newspaper Archives, approx. 1850-1890's. Numerous papers from around the state, including Spokane, Seattle, and Puget Sound.
Port Townsend Morning Leader, 1903-1910. Select Port Towsend Leader from the Collections list to search just the newspaper.
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Newpaper Archives, mostly from the period 1860-1940, thousands of searchable newspaper clippings
Wyoming
Wyoming Newspaper Project, 1867-1930. Lots of papers here from Cheyenne, Cody, Casper, and across the state. The images I viewed were surprisingly sharp and clear.
Early America, 1750-1790
Only three pages on view here, one of the from Ben Franklin's Gazette.
Some more nationwide stuff
The Stars and Stripes from WWI, 1918-1919
The American Soldier's newspaper of World War I
Chronicling America, 1900-1910, the Library of Congress' rather scant collection of assorted newspapers.
The Labor Press Project
Includes numerous examples of labor and socialist publications with titles like The Agitator. Not searchable, and not a deep resource, but there are many items here not available elsewhere. Site has a Pacific NW focus, and mostly early 20th century.
University papers
Cornell UniversityNew York
Sporadic coverage from 1880-1979
The Collegian
University of Richmond, Virginia
1914-2003
Assorted College Newspapers
Penn State University
1887-1989
Harvard Crimson, Harvard University, 1873-current
Full text searching, but text-only retrieval, rather than original images.
The Silent Worker
A college newspaper of sorts, this national publication, now housed at Galludet University, is an archive of a newspaper for the deaf (originally called The Deaf MuteTimes) , written by deaf authors. Covers 1888-1929.
Lancaster County Newspaper Archives
Lancaster County, PA has put several newspapers online, including the Franklin and Marshall College Reporter, from 1915-2001.
Purdue Exponent, Purdue University (Indiana)
A small but useful archive, covering 2000-2006
University of Massachusetts at Boston, 1966-2007
Includes Mass Media, and UMB News.
Coe College Cosmos, 1890-1977 (Iowa).
The Barnard Bulletin, 1901-2002, Barnard College in New York City.
Minnesota Daily
University of Minnestoa college newspaper. Full images available, but no text searching. 1900-1999
Wisconsin literary magazine
A student publication from the University of Wisconsin. Oddly, individual issues can be searched, but not the collection as a whole. Covers 1906-1928.
University of Georgia Red and Black student Newspaper archives, 1893-1979. (special viewer needed to see page images). Also from U. Georgia, a few issues of the satirical student newspaper, The Bumble Bee, from 1889-1902
University of British Columbia (Canada) Ubyssey Student newspaper, 1916-current
The Collegiate Chronicle at the University of Illinois is an interesting resource that contains archives for a number of college newspapers including: American University Eagle (1925-1996), Franklin and Marshall College Reporter (1964-1987), Georgetown Hoya (1959-1980), Lincoln University Lincolnian and Lincoln News (1925-2003), Gettysburg College Gettysburgian (1897-2004), University of Illinois Daily Illini (1916-1945), and others.
Yale Daily News 1878-? Searchable, but poorly described, and an unfriendly interface. Only a few years seems to have been digitized thus far. C'mon Yale...you can do better!
Montclairion -- Montclair State College, NJ student newspaper 1962-2001
The Griffin, Canisius College (Jesuit College in Buffalo, NY). Archives appear to run from 1933 to the 1950's.
East Los Angeles College Campus News (1945-1999)
Magazines
Some magazines have also digitized their archives and are making some or all of their content available, free of charge:
First, is that most venerable publication, Time magazine, which has a good search function, and provides the full text of their articles back to 1923 (no pictures, though), all absolutely free.
The Atlantic monthly magazine recently made it's online archives available without subscription, going back to 1995, with select articles dating back to 1857...use the Premium Archives for full text searching, though.
I'll also mention Life magazineeven though it can only search an index of articles, rather than the full text...if you want the article, you have to buy an actual paper issue of the magazine.
The Nation has made its entire collection of politically-oriented content available back to its first issue in July 1865. It's free to search, but you have to pay for the full articles
The collection at OldMagazineArticles.com is not terribly extensive, but is well targeted to items of historical and cultural interest, and is worth a look.
The Jewish Chronicle archives collection covers the entire history of this publication, from 1841 to the present. Searching is free, but you'll have to pay to retrieve articles.
Carrier Addresses from the 1800's, have to be seen to be appreciated, but in brief, they are wordy new year's poems distrubuted by the newspaper carriers in the hopes of a tip.
Six 18th and 19th century British (England and Scotland) publications are online, covering roughly 1750-1850. This is a cool collection, and includes the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
An unusual collection from Georgia State University covers a century of the Union movement and labor organization, and includes magazine, journal and newspaper archives from the IAMAW -- International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, 1899-1994
Harper's Weekly Journal, and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, ca late 1800's, from the Louisiana Digital Library. The collection seems to be several hundred images, without article text.
The British Colonist, British Columbia, 1859-1860
UK and Ireland Newspaper Archives:
Another oldie from France, sort of French and German, is this University of Heidelberg archive of a Strausbourg newspaper from 1609-1610.
Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Islands Archives. The VESTNORD project covers news and magazines from the frozen parts of the Atlantic with (bless them) an option for an English-language interface. Coverage from 1773-2001.
Greek language newspapers. Assorted newspapers from Greece covering 1893-1983, fully searchable.
Archives of Spain. There seem to be hundreds of publications here, mostly magazines and journals, with some newspapers, from the 19th and 20th centuries, from the collection of the Biblioteca Nacional de Espana.
Mystery European Archives, Digiteeritud Eesti Ajalehed 1824-2002. Can anyone tell me what these are? Seems to be Netherlands, Estonian, German, Swedish, but I don't understand what the collection is about.
Newspaper Archives from Elsewhere in the World
If some are dead, let me know and I'll see if I can track down the new sites.
Nationwide U.S.
SmallTownPapers.com
This looks to be a growing collection that has sporadic coverage all over the US, with some (not many) issues dating back to the mid 1800's. Limited text search function.
Northwest History Database
Searchable collection of Northwest newspaper clippings. The date range is very poorly described, but seems to be early 20th century.
New York Times Archives
All archives from 1853-1922 are free of charge, and some archives after that date are also free. Use the site's pull-down menu to select date ranges.
HistoryBuff.com
A very small collection -- just an archived page or two for any given year -- but it manages to capture most of the major events of the past three centuries. The page images are very clear, especially the newspaper photographs. No text searching, but you can browse by date and event.
Chronicling America (Library of Congress)
This is both a good and frustrating collection. Good, for the diversity of sources,quality of images, and ease of the search interface. Frustrating, because there should be more from the nation's leading library. Covers the years 1880-1910, and includes papers from California, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, Texas, Utah, and Virginia.
State by State
All archives from 1853-1922 are free of charge, and some archives after that date are also free. Use the site's pull-down menu to select date ranges.
HistoryBuff.com
A very small collection -- just an archived page or two for any given year -- but it manages to capture most of the major events of the past three centuries. The page images are very clear, especially the newspaper photographs. No text searching, but you can browse by date and event.
Chronicling America (Library of Congress)
This is both a good and frustrating collection. Good, for the diversity of sources,quality of images, and ease of the search interface. Frustrating, because there should be more from the nation's leading library. Covers the years 1880-1910, and includes papers from California, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, Texas, Utah, and Virginia.
State by State
Alabama
Birmingham Iron Age, 1874-1887. A weekly newspaper from the very early days of this city. The collection is incomplete, but offers full text searching and full page images. Clippings from magazines and other newspapers are also part of the collection, provided by the Birmingham Public Library.
Assorted Birmingham, AL Newspaper Clippings from the Birmingham Public Library. Search on article descriptions; not clear which papers or date ranges are covered.
Alaska
The Tundra Times, 1962-1997 (Fairbanks). This is an odd archive, as it is a combination of article clippings and full page images. Still, it is (so far) the only free newspaper archive available from Alaska, courtesy of the Tuzzy Consortium Library.
Arizona
Casa Grande (near Phoenix) Newspaper Archives, 1912-2007, courtesy of the Casa Grande Public Library.
The Little Cowpuncher, 1934-1943. This is different! A mimeographed newspaper published by school children reflecting life in rural Arizona in a time when kids gave their teachers cow heads as a gift.
Casa Grande (near Phoenix) Newspaper Archives, 1912-2007, courtesy of the Casa Grande Public Library.
The Little Cowpuncher, 1934-1943. This is different! A mimeographed newspaper published by school children reflecting life in rural Arizona in a time when kids gave their teachers cow heads as a gift.
Arkansas
The Journal-Advance (1869-1949), in Gentry (originally Orchard City) offers a detailed look at news from the Ozarks. The paper is also known as the Courier-Journal.
California
California Digital Newspaper Collection, approx 1849-1911
A small but growing collection from UC Riverside. Includes articles from Alta California, San Francisco Call, Amador Ledger, and the Los Angeles Herald, among others. There are several viewing options, including downloadable PDFs.
The Covina Newspaper Archives (1895-1999) include the Covina Argus and other papers, from this southern California area near Los Angeles.
El Clamor Publico, 1855-1859 (Los Angeles). One of California's earliest Spanish-language newspapers, courtesy of the Huntington Library and USC.
Whittier Historical Newspaper Collection, 1883-1923. From the Whittier Public Library, near Los Angeles. Amazingly, the system only seems to download full newspapers, rather than individual pages or articles, so patience is required.
Assorted 20th Century Newspaper Clippings, Oviatt Library, CSU Northridge. A small collection, but includes many interesting clippings on Nazi and Communist activities in Southern California.
Colorado
Colorado Newspaper Archives from 1859-1923. The Wild, Wild West!California Digital Newspaper Collection, approx 1849-1911
A small but growing collection from UC Riverside. Includes articles from Alta California, San Francisco Call, Amador Ledger, and the Los Angeles Herald, among others. There are several viewing options, including downloadable PDFs.
The Covina Newspaper Archives (1895-1999) include the Covina Argus and other papers, from this southern California area near Los Angeles.
El Clamor Publico, 1855-1859 (Los Angeles). One of California's earliest Spanish-language newspapers, courtesy of the Huntington Library and USC.
Whittier Historical Newspaper Collection, 1883-1923. From the Whittier Public Library, near Los Angeles. Amazingly, the system only seems to download full newspapers, rather than individual pages or articles, so patience is required.
Assorted 20th Century Newspaper Clippings, Oviatt Library, CSU Northridge. A small collection, but includes many interesting clippings on Nazi and Communist activities in Southern California.
Colorado
Florida
Florida Digital Newspaper Library archives, early 1800's to current. There's a lot here, though the collection is not well-described. Full text search and full image retrieval.
Boca Raton, FL newspaper archives, 1930's-current, courtesy of the Boca Raton Historical Society.
Central Florida Memory Newspaper Clippings. Assorted digital files, including a mish-mash of a few thousand newspaper items. Includes 19th century Lochmede Winter Park newspaper.
The Southern Israelite (1929-1958, 1984-1986). Printed in Augusta and Atlanta, this newspaper is a reflection of the Jewish community during a time of Hitler, WWII, the Holocaust, and the formation of Israel. An important historical resource.
Hawaii
Hawaii Newspaper Archives (in Hawaiian) from the mid-1800's to 1920's.
An assorted collection of full image newspapers, browseable, but not searchable.
Hawaii Newspaper Archives (in Hawaiian) from the mid-1800's to 1920's.
An assorted collection of full image newspapers, browseable, but not searchable.
Hawaiian Language Nupepa Collection, 1834-1948
More Hawaiian language newspapers, mostly in image format, but with some word searching.
Illinois
Barrington Review, Barrington, IL, 1914-1930
Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection, 1903-1945, at the University of Illinois
Currently carries the Daily Illini, the Urbana Daily Courier, and Express (from Tallula), in full page image format, with full text searching.
Quincy Illinois Historical Newspaper Archive 1835-1890
Flora Public Library Digital Newspapers, 1883-1926 (southern Illinois). An intermittent collection, including the Southern Illinois Record, and Flora Journal Record.
The Sterling, IL Newspaper Archives, 1854-2007. Includes the Sterling Gazette, Sauk Valley Sunday, and others.
Dziennik Zwiazkowy, a Polish language newspaper from Chicago, 1908-1917
(site was not working when last I checked).
The Farm, Field and Fireside Collection at the University of Illinois, 1841-1939. What a lovely find. A century of rural newspapers geared towards farmers. Publications seem to be mostly weeklies from Illinois, but include other states as well. Newspapers include Better Farming, Farmers Voice, Illinois Farmer, Prarie Farmer, and even the Farmer's Wife.
North Surburban Library System, IL (outside of Chicago). Incredible mish mash of thousands of newspaper articles, along with other digital archives, but no real description...you just have to browse around to see what's what.
Indiana
Muncie Post Democrat Newspaper Collection at Ball State University, 1921-1950
Full text searching and full page PDFs. Not the friendliest interface, though.
Evansville Press, ?-1998. A local clippings collection, searchable by title and keyword. Collection is not well-described, but includes a lot of material on the University of Indiana, especially basketball.
Vevay/Switzerland County Newspapers, 1840-1901. Scanned newspaper pages (no text search, no keywords) from the Switzerland Co. HS. Archives include The Vevay Times and Switzerland County Democrat, and The Vevay Reveille.
Iowa
Adams County, Iowa Newspaper Archives, 1876-2000
Cedar Rapids Library Newspaper Archives includes a number of Iowa newspapers, 1857-1998.
Charles City Daily Press, Floyd County, 1930-1931.
Sioux County Newspaper Archives, in Iowa, from 1872-2000.
The Des Moines Newspaper Archives, 1970-2007. Includes West Des Moines Express, Polk County News, and others.
The Malvern and Mills County Archives, 1864-2002. Includes the Malvern Leader, Mills County Journal, and others.
The Carroll Newspaper Archives, 1884-2007. The Carroll Daily Times Herald and other papers. Archives also include detailed early atlases of Carroll County.
The Buffalo Center Tribune, 1894-2003.
The Muscatine City Directories, 1856-1959. No newspapers here, but a terrific set of directories from the Musser Library.
Kansas
Kansas Memory Digital Archives covers a smattering of 19th and early 20th century digital materials, including a few newspapers, which appear to include several hundred article clippings overall. Papers include the Wichita Eagle, Topeka Journal, Lawrence Daily Journal, and others.
Kentucky
The Kentuckiana Digital Library has newspaper archives from 1886-1912 for papers across Kentucky, from the Bluegrass Blade in Lexington to the Owensboro Vindicator. Full text searching, but an awkward interface.
Northern Kentucky Newspaper Index, 1841-current. An odd mix of full image searchable newspapers, and newspaper indexes. Use the "full text" option to restrict results to images. Collection from the Kenton Library.
Louisiana
Louisiana Newspaper Access Program, 19th and early 20th century. Part of the Louisiana Digital Library Collection, this is an interesting hodge-podge collection of English and French language news, with a not terribly friendly user interface.
New Orleans Bee, 1827-1923. From the Jefferson Parish Library, this English and French newspaper is a rich slice of history, but unfortunately, only browseable by date, with no text search offered.
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, and Harper's Weekly Journal, late 19th century. Also from the Louisian Digital Library Collection, these appear to be images only.
Maryland
The Marlyland State Archives have several newspapers online, mostly from the 1800's, though a few spill into early 1900's and one has issues from 1965. These are digitized directly from microfilm, and can be browsed by date, but not searched.
Massachusetts
[URL="http://www.sturgislibrary.org/collections/barnstable-patriot"]Barnstable, MA, on Cape Cod, has the Barnstable Patriot from 1830-1930, the Hyannis Patriot, and the Sandwich Observer, all with full text searching, courtesy of the Sturgis Library.
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Provincetown Banner and The Advocate, 1918 and 1931-67 (but missing 1935). Full text searching, and full image retrieval.
Diario de Noticias/Alvaro Diaria, 1919-1973 (in Portugese). From the Claire T. Carney Library at UMass, an important resource for the Portugese-American community in New Bedford, with a rather complex search interface.
Michigan
The Saugatuck-Douglas Library in Michigan has digitized the Commercial Record, 1868-1959. Keyword searching available, for this lumber and shipping community on Lake Michigan.
Minnesota
Holt Weekly News and Northern Light, 1911-1952. From the "Home of the Largest Co-operative Creamery in Marshall County" a terrific rural newspaper archive.
The Winona State University Newspaper Archives in Minnesota include several papers from 1855-1946. This is a surprisingly rich collection.
Missouri
Missouri Newspaper Archives appear to cover late 1800's to current, but dates not well described
Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune, 1889-2008. A substantial archive of essentially two newspapers that eventually merged into one.
Nevada
Las Vegas Age newspaper archives in Nevada, 1905-1924, with some gaps in coverage. Searching is on keywords rather than full text.
The Big Job, and Basic Bombardier newsletters, 1940s, from the BMI magnesium plant in Henderson, NV during WWII. The plant made millions (billions?) of tracer bullets for the war effort.
New Hampshire
New Hampshire Gazette, the first newspaper printed in New Hampshire. Only one 4-page newspaper is here, but it's from 1756, and worth a look.
New Jersey
Cranbury Press, Cranbury, NJ, from 1886-1926, courtesy of the Cranbury Historical and Preservation Society.
Atlantic County, NJ (includes Atlantic City), 1860-1923
Red Bank Register, (Middletown, NJ) 1878-1947. Full text searching. Additional dates to be added, to bring the collection through 1991.
South Amboy Citizen, 1910-1944. Full page image, browse by date, only.
The New Brunswick Daily Times and other area papers, 1871-1908.
New York
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1841-1902
A great glimpse into 19th century New York.
The New York Times archives, 1853-current.
All papers before 1923 are available free, and select papers after that date are also free. Use the site's pull-down menu to select date ranges.
Northern New York newspaper archives, 1844-2004
A scattered assortment of newspapers; can only be searched on paper at a time.
Freedom's Journal, 1827-1829, the nation's first African-American newspaper, published out of New York City. Housed at the Wisconsin Historical Society, these archives can be viewed and searched issue by issue, but there is no archive-wide search function.
The Friend of Man, 1836-1842, Central New York. An anti-slavery newspaper, archived at Cornell University.
Suffolk County, Long Island, NY, roughly 1830's-1906, a good, diverse collection.
Old New York State Historical Newspaper Pages, 18th-20th centuries. This has to be one of the oddest archives I know of, but with 10 million-plus newspaper pages from all over NY, it's certainly a very valuable one. Be sure to view the FAQ for a description of what's what.
Rochester area newspapers, from Monroe County Library, ca 1800's. This is a very poorly-described and implemented collection of assorted newspapers, mostly individual issues, including Frederick Douglass' Paper, along with the Rochester Daily Democrat, The Rights of Man, and the Monroe Democrat. There are also a few magazines, such as the Rochester Gem, and various local directories.
North Dakota
Frontier Scout, North Dakota's first newspaper, 1864-65. About 20 issues are available online in full image format, but they are not searchable.
Ohio
Cleveland Press, 1878-1982. Digitized article clippings, with full text search. Incredibly, many of the articles do not show the date!
Oklahoma
The Oklahoman, 1901-current. This is a fee-based archive, but can be searched for free, and headlines retrieved (the searching has been very slow on the few times I've visited).
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh, PA Jewish Newspaper Project, 1895-Present. Includes three publications.
Philadelphia Inquirer Civil War Archive, from a Northern perspective, 1860-1865
Lancaster County, PA Newspaper Archives, 1816-1889, and 1915-2001. Several newspapers online, including the curiously-named Columbia Spy.
Tioga County, PA Newspaper Archives, 1838-2006, courtesy of the Green Free Public Library in Wellsboro, PA.
Penn State Newspaper Archives, offers several papers in their Civil War collection, along with archives of student newspapers, and clippings from Lancaster Farming from the 1950's onward.
Smethport, PA newspaper archives, McKean County, 1833-1977. More than a dozen papers here, many of them with a heavy focus on the mining industry, and all courtesy of the Hamlin Memorial Library.
Pennsylvania Digital Archive, includes the Nazareth Item (1891-1975) and the new Holland Clarion in Lancaster County (1873-1950), along with many other digitized archives. Good collection, but not well-described or user friendly.
Pennsylvania Civil War Newspaper Archives, 1831-1877. Assorted papers from this period in US history; includes eight papers from Gettysburgh. Full page images and full text search.
The Chester, PA newspaper archives, 1876-1976, including the Chester Times, Delaware County Daily Times, and others. From the Delaware County Library.
Access Pennsylvania Digital Repository. This is a real hodge-podge, and hard to describe, but there's a lot here, newspapers and otherwise. Looks to be mostly 19th and early 20th centuries. To find (mostly) just newspapers, used Advanced Search and enter newspaper and choose Description as the field to search on.
Ambler Gazette, 1894-1931. From the Wissahickon Valley Public Library in Montgomery County, a cumbersome archive (sorry!) browseable by date.
South CarolinaThe New South newspaper archives, 1862-1866, published in Port Royal and Beaufort, during the Civil War. Archive is full-text searchable.
Texas
San Antonio, TX Daily Light, 1886-1907.
The Weimar Mercury, and other area papers, 1885-1960, from the collection of the Nesbitt Memorial Library.
The Wellington Leader, 1909-2006, from the Collingsworth Public Library.
Archives of the La Marque Times, 1970-1998.
Utah
Utah Digital Newspapers Collection, varied papers, approx 1850s-1950s
Utah newspapers from the Mormon school, Brigham Young University. Dates and collections are not well described, but look to be mostly 19th century; papers include Daily Enquirer, Deseret News, and the Rigby Star. Click on Newspapers in the Collections by Format box.
Virginia
Richmond Then and Now, 1860-1989. A small collection of articles covering the history of this storied city. Text-only.
Virginia Gazette, 1736-1780. An important 18th century resource from the Revolutionary War era, users can browse by date or search articles by a master index.
Richmond Daily Dispatch, 1860-1865. Another smallish collection, covering the Civil War (or the War Between the States) from a Confederate perspective.
Washington
Washington State Newspaper Archives, approx. 1850-1890's. Numerous papers from around the state, including Spokane, Seattle, and Puget Sound.
Port Townsend Morning Leader, 1903-1910. Select Port Towsend Leader from the Collections list to search just the newspaper.
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Newpaper Archives, mostly from the period 1860-1940, thousands of searchable newspaper clippings
Wyoming
Wyoming Newspaper Project, 1867-1930. Lots of papers here from Cheyenne, Cody, Casper, and across the state. The images I viewed were surprisingly sharp and clear.
Early America, 1750-1790
Only three pages on view here, one of the from Ben Franklin's Gazette.
Some more nationwide stuff
The Stars and Stripes from WWI, 1918-1919
The American Soldier's newspaper of World War I
Chronicling America, 1900-1910, the Library of Congress' rather scant collection of assorted newspapers.
The Labor Press Project
Includes numerous examples of labor and socialist publications with titles like The Agitator. Not searchable, and not a deep resource, but there are many items here not available elsewhere. Site has a Pacific NW focus, and mostly early 20th century.
University papers
The Argus
Illinois Wesleyan University. 1894-current
All content is retrievable but is only partly searchable
Illinois Wesleyan University. 1894-current
All content is retrievable but is only partly searchable
Cornell Daily Sun
Cornell University
Sporadic coverage from 1880-1979
The Collegian
University of Richmond, Virginia
1914-2003
Assorted College Newspapers
Penn State University
1887-1989
Harvard Crimson, Harvard University, 1873-current
Full text searching, but text-only retrieval, rather than original images.
The Silent Worker
A college newspaper of sorts, this national publication, now housed at Galludet University, is an archive of a newspaper for the deaf (originally called The Deaf MuteTimes) , written by deaf authors. Covers 1888-1929.
Lancaster County Newspaper Archives
Lancaster County, PA has put several newspapers online, including the Franklin and Marshall College Reporter, from 1915-2001.
Purdue Exponent, Purdue University (Indiana)
A small but useful archive, covering 2000-2006
University of Massachusetts at Boston, 1966-2007
Includes Mass Media, and UMB News.
Coe College Cosmos, 1890-1977 (Iowa).
The Barnard Bulletin, 1901-2002, Barnard College in New York City.
Minnesota Daily
University of Minnestoa college newspaper. Full images available, but no text searching. 1900-1999
Wisconsin literary magazine
A student publication from the University of Wisconsin. Oddly, individual issues can be searched, but not the collection as a whole. Covers 1906-1928.
University of Georgia Red and Black student Newspaper archives, 1893-1979. (special viewer needed to see page images). Also from U. Georgia, a few issues of the satirical student newspaper, The Bumble Bee, from 1889-1902
University of British Columbia (Canada) Ubyssey Student newspaper, 1916-current
The Collegiate Chronicle at the University of Illinois is an interesting resource that contains archives for a number of college newspapers including: American University Eagle (1925-1996), Franklin and Marshall College Reporter (1964-1987), Georgetown Hoya (1959-1980), Lincoln University Lincolnian and Lincoln News (1925-2003), Gettysburg College Gettysburgian (1897-2004), University of Illinois Daily Illini (1916-1945), and others.
Yale Daily News 1878-? Searchable, but poorly described, and an unfriendly interface. Only a few years seems to have been digitized thus far. C'mon Yale...you can do better!
Montclairion -- Montclair State College, NJ student newspaper 1962-2001
The Griffin, Canisius College (Jesuit College in Buffalo, NY). Archives appear to run from 1933 to the 1950's.
East Los Angeles College Campus News (1945-1999)
Magazines
Some magazines have also digitized their archives and are making some or all of their content available, free of charge:
First, is that most venerable publication, Time magazine, which has a good search function, and provides the full text of their articles back to 1923 (no pictures, though), all absolutely free.
The Atlantic monthly magazine recently made it's online archives available without subscription, going back to 1995, with select articles dating back to 1857...use the Premium Archives for full text searching, though.
I'll also mention Life magazineeven though it can only search an index of articles, rather than the full text...if you want the article, you have to buy an actual paper issue of the magazine.
The Nation has made its entire collection of politically-oriented content available back to its first issue in July 1865. It's free to search, but you have to pay for the full articles
The collection at OldMagazineArticles.com is not terribly extensive, but is well targeted to items of historical and cultural interest, and is worth a look.
The Jewish Chronicle archives collection covers the entire history of this publication, from 1841 to the present. Searching is free, but you'll have to pay to retrieve articles.
Carrier Addresses from the 1800's, have to be seen to be appreciated, but in brief, they are wordy new year's poems distrubuted by the newspaper carriers in the hopes of a tip.
Six 18th and 19th century British (England and Scotland) publications are online, covering roughly 1750-1850. This is a cool collection, and includes the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
An unusual collection from Georgia State University covers a century of the Union movement and labor organization, and includes magazine, journal and newspaper archives from the IAMAW -- International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, 1899-1994
Harper's Weekly Journal, and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, ca late 1800's, from the Louisiana Digital Library. The collection seems to be several hundred images, without article text.
Canadian Newspaper Archives
British Columbia, Canada newspaper archives, from 1926 on, courtesy of the Terrace, BC library. The unusual search interface is worth a visit.
The British Colonist, British Columbia, 1859-1860
A small, poorly described collection from BC.
More British Columbia, Canada papers from the Prince George newspaper project, covering 1909-1961, with more anticipated. Newspapers from Prince George and Fort George.
Toronto Star
Covers the past century. Free searching, but one of the worst search interfaces I've come across. You have to pay for full content, too.
Manitoba, Canada Newspaper Archives, 1859-present. More than a dozen fully searchable newspapers here, including the Nor'Wester, one of Manitoba's earliest papers. Papers in French and English are available.
Winnipeg Free Press, 1874-2008. More free archives from one of Manitoba's main newspapers.
Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada Maritime Newspaper Archives, 19th and 20th centuries. Two papers, the Twillington Sun (1884-1924) and French-language Le Gaboteur (1984-1995) are browseable by date, along with an assortment of other resources.
Quebec, Canada French and English Language Newspaper Archives, 1826-1978. More than a dozen papers here, browseable by date only, courtesy of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.
Alberta, Canada Newspaper Archives
Covering the period 1885-2001, this is another impressively large digitized collection, but issues can only be browsed, not searched. Why do they do that?
Canada Gazette: The Official Newspaper of the Government of Canada, 1841-1997
Site includes links to more recent issues of the Gazette as well.
Multicultural Canada
A very poorly designed, poorly described but important collection of documents, including numerous newspapers, representing Canada's cultural diversity. Includes newspaper archives for: L'Ami duPeuple, Canadian India Times, several Chinese and Vietnamese newspapers, Al Hilal newspaper, and the Voice of Pakistan.
Special Editions of Canadian Newspapers
A small but lovely collection of inidividual 'special issue' newspapers (e.g., Christmas editions), some as early as 1885.
Halton Newspaper Index (Ontario)
The Burlington Public Library, near Toronto and Hamilton, has scanned and indexed numerous local newspapers from Acton, Halton, Georgetown, Milton and Oakville. This sporadic collection is mostly 1950's onward, but includes some papers from 1920s-1940s, and the Halton Herald, from 1867. Use the Browse feature, to see newspapers and dates.
Nechako Chronicle, 1928-1984 (British Columbia)
From the Vanderhoof Public Library, a chronicle of life in the North Country.
More British Columbia, Canada papers from the Prince George newspaper project, covering 1909-1961, with more anticipated. Newspapers from Prince George and Fort George.
Toronto Star
Covers the past century. Free searching, but one of the worst search interfaces I've come across. You have to pay for full content, too.
Manitoba, Canada Newspaper Archives, 1859-present. More than a dozen fully searchable newspapers here, including the Nor'Wester, one of Manitoba's earliest papers. Papers in French and English are available.
Winnipeg Free Press, 1874-2008. More free archives from one of Manitoba's main newspapers.
Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada Maritime Newspaper Archives, 19th and 20th centuries. Two papers, the Twillington Sun (1884-1924) and French-language Le Gaboteur (1984-1995) are browseable by date, along with an assortment of other resources.
Quebec, Canada French and English Language Newspaper Archives, 1826-1978. More than a dozen papers here, browseable by date only, courtesy of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.
Alberta, Canada Newspaper Archives
Covering the period 1885-2001, this is another impressively large digitized collection, but issues can only be browsed, not searched. Why do they do that?
Canada Gazette: The Official Newspaper of the Government of Canada, 1841-1997
Site includes links to more recent issues of the Gazette as well.
Multicultural Canada
A very poorly designed, poorly described but important collection of documents, including numerous newspapers, representing Canada's cultural diversity. Includes newspaper archives for: L'Ami duPeuple, Canadian India Times, several Chinese and Vietnamese newspapers, Al Hilal newspaper, and the Voice of Pakistan.
Special Editions of Canadian Newspapers
A small but lovely collection of inidividual 'special issue' newspapers (e.g., Christmas editions), some as early as 1885.
Halton Newspaper Index (Ontario)
The Burlington Public Library, near Toronto and Hamilton, has scanned and indexed numerous local newspapers from Acton, Halton, Georgetown, Milton and Oakville. This sporadic collection is mostly 1950's onward, but includes some papers from 1920s-1940s, and the Halton Herald, from 1867. Use the Browse feature, to see newspapers and dates.
Nechako Chronicle, 1928-1984 (British Columbia)
From the Vanderhoof Public Library, a chronicle of life in the North Country.
19th Century British Newspapers from the British Library. This is a subscription service with 49 titles, but two of them, Penny Illustrated, and The Graphic, are available free. These are surprisingly rich resources.
German historical newspapers. Six 18th and 19th century British (England and Scotland) publications are online, covering roughly 1750-1850. This is a cool collection, and includes the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
UK Gazettes offer 350 years of official government notices from London, Belfast and Edinburgh. Full-text searching and PDF results..a very arcane, but very worhtwhile resource.
British Library Newspaper Archive
You get a smattering of UK papers from late 19th/early 20th century. Very sporadic coverage, and a painful search interface, but worth bookmarking, at least.
Irish Newspaper Archive
Varied newspapers and date ranges, some as early as 1763 Free to search, but it will cost you to retrieve full text.
Saoirse, Irish Freedom Newspaper, 1987-2003
A publication of the Sinn Féin. Formerly, The Republic Bulletin, in both English and Irish Gaelic, hosted at Indiana University.
The Guardian (UK)
Awkward searching, but free content for the past century.
The Scotsman Digital Archive
1817 to 1950
Scottish history, free to search, results show headline only. You have to pay for full copies.
NCSE: Nineteenth Century Serials Edition
A recent and important edition to online archives, the NCSE collection covers most of the 19th century. Its newspaper and magazine sources include Monthly Repository (1806-1837) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Northern Star (1838-1852), Leader (1850-1860), English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Tomahawk (1867-1870). and Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890).
Villanova University Digital Library. A number of Irish and Irish-American publications here, including Irish Press (1918-22), Irish Tribune (1848), and (believe it or not) the Irish Felon (1848). Some non-Irish materials as well.
UK Newspaper Archives. An alternative write-up at Quezi.com of many of the sources presented here.
UK Gazettes offer 350 years of official government notices from London, Belfast and Edinburgh. Full-text searching and PDF results..a very arcane, but very worhtwhile resource.
British Library Newspaper Archive
You get a smattering of UK papers from late 19th/early 20th century. Very sporadic coverage, and a painful search interface, but worth bookmarking, at least.
Irish Newspaper Archive
Varied newspapers and date ranges, some as early as 1763 Free to search, but it will cost you to retrieve full text.
Saoirse, Irish Freedom Newspaper, 1987-2003
A publication of the Sinn Féin. Formerly, The Republic Bulletin, in both English and Irish Gaelic, hosted at Indiana University.
The Guardian (UK)
Awkward searching, but free content for the past century.
The Scotsman Digital Archive
1817 to 1950
Scottish history, free to search, results show headline only. You have to pay for full copies.
NCSE: Nineteenth Century Serials Edition
A recent and important edition to online archives, the NCSE collection covers most of the 19th century. Its newspaper and magazine sources include Monthly Repository (1806-1837) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Northern Star (1838-1852), Leader (1850-1860), English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Tomahawk (1867-1870). and Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890).
Villanova University Digital Library. A number of Irish and Irish-American publications here, including Irish Press (1918-22), Irish Tribune (1848), and (believe it or not) the Irish Felon (1848). Some non-Irish materials as well.
UK Newspaper Archives. An alternative write-up at Quezi.com of many of the sources presented here.
There are numerous digitized collections from Germany. Most seem broweable but not full-text searchable, but visit the sites below to explore the full capabilities:
Assorted Bavarian German newspaper archives, with intermittent coverage from early 1700's to 1945. Includes Corburger Zeitung, Der gerade Weg, Grafinger Zeitung, and others.
Deutsche Exilzeitschriften, 1933-1945. Newspaper archives from assorted Germann exile communities.
Freiburger Zeitung (1784-1943), Staufener Wochenblatt (1875-1968) and other German newspaper archive materials.
Freiburger Zeitung (1784-1943), Staufener Wochenblatt (1875-1968) and other German newspaper archive materials.
Historische Zeitungen und Zeitschriften--German Newspaper archives from Saxony, mostly early 1800's
Latvian newspapers, 1886-1957. There are a lot of newspapers here, browseable by date.
Latvian newspapers, 1886-1957. There are a lot of newspapers here, browseable by date.
Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg German newspaper archives. Includes field newspapers from World War I, Heidelberger Zeitung (1861-1919), and Der Heidelberger Student (1929-1938)
Die Zeit Online has archives dating back at least to 1946, Interface is in German, and full page images are available.
Villanova University Digital Library has two WWI-era German-American publications in English: The Fatherland, and World War, a translation of the German publication, Weltkrieg.
Die Zeit Online has archives dating back at least to 1946, Interface is in German, and full page images are available.
Villanova University Digital Library has two WWI-era German-American publications in English: The Fatherland, and World War, a translation of the German publication, Weltkrieg.
Other European Newspaper Archives
Denmark Illustreret Tidende, 1759-1865, a Danish magazine style newspaper. Browseable by date.
[URL="http://digi.lib.helsinki.fi/sanomalehti/secure/main.html"]Finnish Historical Newspapers -- 1771-1890
[/URL]Quite a deep collection of dozens of newspapers, almost a million digitized pages, in all. Searchable, if you happen to know Finnish.
Nordic newspaper archives
You want historical? Some of these papers date back to 1645. Several collections from Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland can be linked to from this site.
Austrian Newspaper Archives
From the Austrian National Library (ANNO), newspaper and assorted magazines and journals, from the period 1780-1938. Seems to be page images only. I'm not certain of the search tools available, as the site is in German.
Arbeiter Zeitung, 1945-1989, full page images, browseable by date.
Estonian Newspaper Archives from 1821-1944. If you can read Estonian, this should be a valuable site, but there is no English interface.
French Newspaper Archives. The French, surprisingly, have done a mediocre job archiving their newspapers, but a few are available at this archives page. They are not searchable, but full page images can be retrieved by date. Date coverage is poorly described (quelle surprise!), but coverage includes Le Figaro, Le Temps, Le Croix, and others, chiefly from the 1800s to early 1900s.
Mercure Francois, 1605-1643, France's oldest newspaper, is another French resource, more wonderful than most.
Denmark Illustreret Tidende, 1759-1865, a Danish magazine style newspaper. Browseable by date.
[URL="http://digi.lib.helsinki.fi/sanomalehti/secure/main.html"]Finnish Historical Newspapers -- 1771-1890
[/URL]Quite a deep collection of dozens of newspapers, almost a million digitized pages, in all. Searchable, if you happen to know Finnish.
Nordic newspaper archives
You want historical? Some of these papers date back to 1645. Several collections from Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland can be linked to from this site.
Austrian Newspaper Archives
From the Austrian National Library (ANNO), newspaper and assorted magazines and journals, from the period 1780-1938. Seems to be page images only. I'm not certain of the search tools available, as the site is in German.
Arbeiter Zeitung, 1945-1989, full page images, browseable by date.
Estonian Newspaper Archives from 1821-1944. If you can read Estonian, this should be a valuable site, but there is no English interface.
French Newspaper Archives. The French, surprisingly, have done a mediocre job archiving their newspapers, but a few are available at this archives page. They are not searchable, but full page images can be retrieved by date. Date coverage is poorly described (quelle surprise!), but coverage includes Le Figaro, Le Temps, Le Croix, and others, chiefly from the 1800s to early 1900s.
Mercure Francois, 1605-1643, France's oldest newspaper, is another French resource, more wonderful than most.
Another oldie from France, sort of French and German, is this University of Heidelberg archive of a Strausbourg newspaper from 1609-1610.
Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Islands Archives. The VESTNORD project covers news and magazines from the frozen parts of the Atlantic with (bless them) an option for an English-language interface. Coverage from 1773-2001.
Greek language newspapers. Assorted newspapers from Greece covering 1893-1983, fully searchable.
Italy newspaper archvies. Le Gazzette Bolognesi, 1674-1796, full image, can be browsed by date.
More 19th and 20th cenury Italian language papers, from Italy, New York, and elsewhere. There are over a million pages of newspapers, journals and magazines here, mostly browseable by date and title.
Luxembourg, 1704-1940, intermittent coverage of assorted newspaper and magazine archives, browseable by date. Some of the publications, like Luxemburger Illustrierte, are quite beautiful.
Switzerland newspapers, 1826-1998. The Swiss have put the French-language Journal de Genève, almost 200 years of it, online in an easy to use and search digitized format. Other journals will be added soon.
Netherlands, 1752-present. The Leeuwarder Courant (in Dutch). This is an incredible, deep archive, easy to use, and as they say (in their cute Dutch-y language) 256 jaar gratis!
More 19th and 20th cenury Italian language papers, from Italy, New York, and elsewhere. There are over a million pages of newspapers, journals and magazines here, mostly browseable by date and title.
Luxembourg, 1704-1940, intermittent coverage of assorted newspaper and magazine archives, browseable by date. Some of the publications, like Luxemburger Illustrierte, are quite beautiful.
Switzerland newspapers, 1826-1998. The Swiss have put the French-language Journal de Genève, almost 200 years of it, online in an easy to use and search digitized format. Other journals will be added soon.
Netherlands, 1752-present. The Leeuwarder Courant (in Dutch). This is an incredible, deep archive, easy to use, and as they say (in their cute Dutch-y language) 256 jaar gratis!
Archives of Spain. There seem to be hundreds of publications here, mostly magazines and journals, with some newspapers, from the 19th and 20th centuries, from the collection of the Biblioteca Nacional de Espana.
Mystery European Archives, Digiteeritud Eesti Ajalehed 1824-2002. Can anyone tell me what these are? Seems to be Netherlands, Estonian, German, Swedish, but I don't understand what the collection is about.
Newspaper Archives from Elsewhere in the World
National Library of Australia Digitzed Newspapers, 1803-1954
That's Australia, mate, not Austria. This rapidly growing collection includes The Argus, The Courier-Mail, Mercury,Perth Gazette, and the South Australian Advertiser, and dozens of others. Full text searching and dowloadable PDF images.
Australian Digitized Collection
Magazines such as the "The Adelaide Independent and Cabinet of Amusement", mostly from the 1840-1850 period, and fully searchable.
Also from Australia, the Nambour Chronicle and North Coast Advertiser is online and searchable, from 1903-1955. Free (and easy) registration is required.
Maori Newspapers
Yep. Maori language newspapers from New Zealand, covering the period 1842-1932.
New Zealand PapersPast newspapers
And for the non-Maori speakers among you, more than a million pages of NZ newspapers, from 1839-1915, full-text searchable.
Hebrew language newspapers;from 1856-1914. Searching and results are entirely in Hebrew. It's not clear where the papers are from, geographically, but a significant resource for Jewish history.
Caribbean Newspaper Imaging Project has newspaper archives from Cuba (1947-1961, in Spanish) and Haiti (1899-1979, in French). There seems to be a smattering of content from Haiti, Bermuda, and elsewhere, though the collection is not well-described. Content can be searched by topics and keywords, and full images can be viewed after downloading a free plug-in.
From India, the Andhra Patrika, 1931-1941 in (probably) Sanskrit. These are straight PDF images, available as large file downloads.
Indonesia newspaper archives, WWII era, 1940-1946, courtesy of the Netherlands Institute. Full image papers can only be browsed by date.
The Jewish Press Site
Includes The Palestine Post 1932-1950 and other English and Hebrew newspapers, and several French language publications: The Bulletin de l'Alliance Israelite Universelle 1860-1913 and Paix Et Droit 1921-1940 from France, La Liberté (1915-1922) and L'Avenir Illustré (1926-1940) from Morocco (some Arabic content),
Newpaper archives in Chinese, ca 1850-current. This site from the Center for Research Libraries does a wonderful job of summarizing Chinese-language online archives, both subscription and free. Included are free links to Chinese newspapers from New Zealand, the Ming Pao Daily News from British Columbia, Shijie Ribao (World Daily) from Taiwan, Shanghai Library National Index, and even a special collection of newspaper clippings on Baseball in Taiwan.
That's Australia, mate, not Austria. This rapidly growing collection includes The Argus, The Courier-Mail, Mercury,Perth Gazette, and the South Australian Advertiser, and dozens of others. Full text searching and dowloadable PDF images.
Australian Digitized Collection
Magazines such as the "The Adelaide Independent and Cabinet of Amusement", mostly from the 1840-1850 period, and fully searchable.
Also from Australia, the Nambour Chronicle and North Coast Advertiser is online and searchable, from 1903-1955. Free (and easy) registration is required.
Maori Newspapers
Yep. Maori language newspapers from New Zealand, covering the period 1842-1932.
New Zealand PapersPast newspapers
And for the non-Maori speakers among you, more than a million pages of NZ newspapers, from 1839-1915, full-text searchable.
Hebrew language newspapers;from 1856-1914. Searching and results are entirely in Hebrew. It's not clear where the papers are from, geographically, but a significant resource for Jewish history.
Caribbean Newspaper Imaging Project has newspaper archives from Cuba (1947-1961, in Spanish) and Haiti (1899-1979, in French). There seems to be a smattering of content from Haiti, Bermuda, and elsewhere, though the collection is not well-described. Content can be searched by topics and keywords, and full images can be viewed after downloading a free plug-in.
From India, the Andhra Patrika, 1931-1941 in (probably) Sanskrit. These are straight PDF images, available as large file downloads.
Indonesia newspaper archives, WWII era, 1940-1946, courtesy of the Netherlands Institute. Full image papers can only be browsed by date.
The Jewish Press Site
Includes The Palestine Post 1932-1950 and other English and Hebrew newspapers, and several French language publications: The Bulletin de l'Alliance Israelite Universelle 1860-1913 and Paix Et Droit 1921-1940 from France, La Liberté (1915-1922) and L'Avenir Illustré (1926-1940) from Morocco (some Arabic content),
Newpaper archives in Chinese, ca 1850-current. This site from the Center for Research Libraries does a wonderful job of summarizing Chinese-language online archives, both subscription and free. Included are free links to Chinese newspapers from New Zealand, the Ming Pao Daily News from British Columbia, Shijie Ribao (World Daily) from Taiwan, Shanghai Library National Index, and even a special collection of newspaper clippings on Baseball in Taiwan.
Assorted links about specific occupations past and present.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place - A History of American Sweatshops 1820-Present
[SIZE=-1]A virtual exhibition from the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of American History. [/SIZE]
A Collection of Workers' Memorials
[SIZE=-1]Listing of Workers' memorials by state from the AFL-CIO. [/SIZE]
Five Thousand Ways to Earn a Living
[SIZE=-1]A list of trades and professions taken from British census records and parish records. [/SIZE]
Index of Imperial Russian Occupational Terms
[SIZE=-1]In order to find and use specific types of Russian records, resarchers need to be able to identify and understand some key terms in the Russian language. This glossary contains terms relating to occupations, trades and professions in Imperial Russia, transliterated from Russian, along with their English translations. [/SIZE]
A. Philip Randolph/Pullman Porter Museum Gallery
[SIZE=-1]Celebrating this leader in the African American labor movement and the African American Railroad Attendant.[/SIZE]
Artists' Papers Register
[SIZE=-1]Online searchable index of papers and primary sources relating to artists, designers and craftspeople located in publicly accessible collections in the United Kingdom. [/SIZE]
Directory of Corporate Archives in the United States and Canada
[SIZE=-1]From the Society of American Archivists Business Archives Section. Alphabetical listing of known corporate archives including contact information and terms of use. An excellent resource for finding employment records for large companies. [/SIZE]
Collage Portal
[SIZE=-1]An image database containing 20,000 works from the Guildhall Library and Guildhall Art Gallery London. [/SIZE]
The Library of the Goldsmiths' Company
[SIZE=-1]The collection of archives dates from the 14th century. [/SIZE]
Mander and Mitchenson Theatre Collection
The Raymond Mander & Joe Mitchenson Theatre Collection is one of the largest collections of theatre and performance related materials in the UK.
Maritime History Archive at Memorial University of Newfoundland
The Maritime History Archive collects and preserves documents relating to the history of maritime activities in Newfoundland and Labrador and throughout the North Atlantic world.
Mills Archive
This site has been designed to share records and history relating to traditional mills and milling. It contains many thousands of digital images and documents as well as extensive databases of information.
Modern Records Centre
[SIZE=-1]The Centre's holdings focus on UK trade union records. It also holds the records of some interest groups and political organisations (including West Midlands), of individuals and business (particularly the motor industry). Hosted by the University of Warwick Library, the MRC holds records of interest to the genealogist regarding trades union membership amongst other topics. [/SIZE]
The Museum of English Rural Life
The Museum of English Rural Life houses the most comprehensive national collection of objects, books and archives relating to the history of food, farming and the countryside.
Northampton Central Museum - Boot & Shoe Collection
[SIZE=-1]Maintains an index of shoemakers and shoemaking firms . [/SIZE]
USPTO Web Patent Databases
[SIZE=-1]The Full-Text Database contains all the 6.5 million US patents issued since 1790. In the form of searchable patent numbers and current US classifications hyperlinked to full-page images of each page of each patent.[/SIZE]
The World Famous Library & Museum
[SIZE=-1]The Clockmakers' Library was founded in 1813. It holds the ancient manuscript records of the Company and clockmaker's work books and related documents. [/SIZE]
Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic ~ Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
[SIZE=-1]Commemorates the fishing heritage of the Atlantic Coast of Canada[/SIZE]
Lighthouse Records
[SIZE=-1]Selected scanned examples of Scottish lighthouse records from the Scottish Archives Network. [/SIZE]
Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters
[SIZE=-1]Online searchable database of vessels, mariners & passengers. [/SIZE]
Seamen's Protection Certificate Register Database
[SIZE=-1]The data (sailor names, ages, birth and residences places) included on these pages is taken from the original "Registers of Seamen's Protection Certificates" issued at the Custom Houses of Fall River, Gloucester, Salem, New Haven, Newport, and Marblehead. There are entries for 23,436 certificates issued from 1796-1871. [/SIZE]
Tracing British Seaman & Their Ships
A wide variety of maritime related links
Circuit Rider Database
[SIZE=-1]The purpose of this database is to compile information on the early pastors in pioneer churches all over the United States--circuit riders as well as those who stayed at one station (pre-1920), otherwise known as a "settled pastor." [/SIZE]
Historical Clock & Watch Research
[SIZE=-1]Includes an extensive index of makers. [/SIZE]
London Merchants 1677
[SIZE=-1]A collection of merchants living in and about London, England in 1677. [/SIZE]
Men of the Cloth
[SIZE=-1]Preachers, pastors, priests and other clergy in Western Pennsylvania. [/SIZE]
Rotherham Pubs and Licensees ~ Yorkshire, England
[SIZE=-1]Pubs with an A-2-Z listing of licensees surnames from 1820-1990.[/SIZE]
Rossbret Workhouse Website
Scottish Book Trade Index
[SIZE=-1]Index of printers, publishers, booksellers, bookbinders, printmakers, stationers and papermakers based in Scotland, from the beginnings of Scottish printing to circa 1850. [/SIZE]
The Steam Engine Makers' Society
The records of the Steam Engine Maker's Society are a unique source, providing detailed information about many aspects of individual lives from 1835 to the First World War; details concerning unemployment, sickness, aging and migration which are available from no other source.
Stone and Quarry Men of the West Country
[SIZE=-1]A genealogical index of stone workers and related occupations in Cornwall and Devon from 1750 to 1900. [/SIZE]
Stone Quarries and Beyond
[SIZE=-1]Quarries, quarry workers, stone cutters & stone carvers, historical dealers of stone & the finished product. [/SIZE]
The Telegrapher Web Page
[SIZE=-1]Research resources for the history of telegraphy and the work of women in the telegraph industry. [/SIZE]
Trade Goods - Midwestern Genealogy / History Prior to 1840
[SIZE=-1]Biographies and histories of traders, merchants, chiefs, officers, voyagers related to the mid-North American fur trade era prior to the 1840s. [/SIZE]
Western Union Collection
[SIZE=-1]Inventory & description of the Western Union Telegraph Company Collection (1820-1995) held at the National Museum of American History. [/SIZE]
Between a Rock and a Hard Place - A History of American Sweatshops 1820-Present
[SIZE=-1]A virtual exhibition from the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of American History. [/SIZE]
A Collection of Workers' Memorials
[SIZE=-1]Listing of Workers' memorials by state from the AFL-CIO. [/SIZE]
Five Thousand Ways to Earn a Living
[SIZE=-1]A list of trades and professions taken from British census records and parish records. [/SIZE]
Index of Imperial Russian Occupational Terms
[SIZE=-1]In order to find and use specific types of Russian records, resarchers need to be able to identify and understand some key terms in the Russian language. This glossary contains terms relating to occupations, trades and professions in Imperial Russia, transliterated from Russian, along with their English translations. [/SIZE]
A. Philip Randolph/Pullman Porter Museum Gallery
[SIZE=-1]Celebrating this leader in the African American labor movement and the African American Railroad Attendant.[/SIZE]
Artists' Papers Register
[SIZE=-1]Online searchable index of papers and primary sources relating to artists, designers and craftspeople located in publicly accessible collections in the United Kingdom. [/SIZE]
Directory of Corporate Archives in the United States and Canada
[SIZE=-1]From the Society of American Archivists Business Archives Section. Alphabetical listing of known corporate archives including contact information and terms of use. An excellent resource for finding employment records for large companies. [/SIZE]
Collage Portal
[SIZE=-1]An image database containing 20,000 works from the Guildhall Library and Guildhall Art Gallery London. [/SIZE]
The Library of the Goldsmiths' Company
[SIZE=-1]The collection of archives dates from the 14th century. [/SIZE]
Mander and Mitchenson Theatre Collection
The Raymond Mander & Joe Mitchenson Theatre Collection is one of the largest collections of theatre and performance related materials in the UK.
Maritime History Archive at Memorial University of Newfoundland
The Maritime History Archive collects and preserves documents relating to the history of maritime activities in Newfoundland and Labrador and throughout the North Atlantic world.
Mills Archive
This site has been designed to share records and history relating to traditional mills and milling. It contains many thousands of digital images and documents as well as extensive databases of information.
Modern Records Centre
[SIZE=-1]The Centre's holdings focus on UK trade union records. It also holds the records of some interest groups and political organisations (including West Midlands), of individuals and business (particularly the motor industry). Hosted by the University of Warwick Library, the MRC holds records of interest to the genealogist regarding trades union membership amongst other topics. [/SIZE]
The Museum of English Rural Life
The Museum of English Rural Life houses the most comprehensive national collection of objects, books and archives relating to the history of food, farming and the countryside.
Northampton Central Museum - Boot & Shoe Collection
[SIZE=-1]Maintains an index of shoemakers and shoemaking firms . [/SIZE]
USPTO Web Patent Databases
[SIZE=-1]The Full-Text Database contains all the 6.5 million US patents issued since 1790. In the form of searchable patent numbers and current US classifications hyperlinked to full-page images of each page of each patent.[/SIZE]
The World Famous Library & Museum
[SIZE=-1]The Clockmakers' Library was founded in 1813. It holds the ancient manuscript records of the Company and clockmaker's work books and related documents. [/SIZE]
Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic ~ Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
[SIZE=-1]Commemorates the fishing heritage of the Atlantic Coast of Canada[/SIZE]
Lighthouse Records
[SIZE=-1]Selected scanned examples of Scottish lighthouse records from the Scottish Archives Network. [/SIZE]
Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters
[SIZE=-1]Online searchable database of vessels, mariners & passengers. [/SIZE]
Seamen's Protection Certificate Register Database
[SIZE=-1]The data (sailor names, ages, birth and residences places) included on these pages is taken from the original "Registers of Seamen's Protection Certificates" issued at the Custom Houses of Fall River, Gloucester, Salem, New Haven, Newport, and Marblehead. There are entries for 23,436 certificates issued from 1796-1871. [/SIZE]
Tracing British Seaman & Their Ships
A wide variety of maritime related links
Circuit Rider Database
[SIZE=-1]The purpose of this database is to compile information on the early pastors in pioneer churches all over the United States--circuit riders as well as those who stayed at one station (pre-1920), otherwise known as a "settled pastor." [/SIZE]
Historical Clock & Watch Research
[SIZE=-1]Includes an extensive index of makers. [/SIZE]
London Merchants 1677
[SIZE=-1]A collection of merchants living in and about London, England in 1677. [/SIZE]
Men of the Cloth
[SIZE=-1]Preachers, pastors, priests and other clergy in Western Pennsylvania. [/SIZE]
Rotherham Pubs and Licensees ~ Yorkshire, England
[SIZE=-1]Pubs with an A-2-Z listing of licensees surnames from 1820-1990.[/SIZE]
Rossbret Workhouse Website
Scottish Book Trade Index
[SIZE=-1]Index of printers, publishers, booksellers, bookbinders, printmakers, stationers and papermakers based in Scotland, from the beginnings of Scottish printing to circa 1850. [/SIZE]
The Steam Engine Makers' Society
The records of the Steam Engine Maker's Society are a unique source, providing detailed information about many aspects of individual lives from 1835 to the First World War; details concerning unemployment, sickness, aging and migration which are available from no other source.
Stone and Quarry Men of the West Country
[SIZE=-1]A genealogical index of stone workers and related occupations in Cornwall and Devon from 1750 to 1900. [/SIZE]
Stone Quarries and Beyond
[SIZE=-1]Quarries, quarry workers, stone cutters & stone carvers, historical dealers of stone & the finished product. [/SIZE]
The Telegrapher Web Page
[SIZE=-1]Research resources for the history of telegraphy and the work of women in the telegraph industry. [/SIZE]
Trade Goods - Midwestern Genealogy / History Prior to 1840
[SIZE=-1]Biographies and histories of traders, merchants, chiefs, officers, voyagers related to the mid-North American fur trade era prior to the 1840s. [/SIZE]
Western Union Collection
[SIZE=-1]Inventory & description of the Western Union Telegraph Company Collection (1820-1995) held at the National Museum of American History. [/SIZE]
World Cultures - Links To Cultures Around The World - http://www.freewebs.com/worldcultures/
I have stumbled upon what appears to be an English translation of a Capuchin missionaries' history of Angola and the Kongo written in 1668! The poster of the Blog is John Thornton who is an expert on the field.
African History is often put by the wayside but nowadays more and more information is coming out.
German Steam Locomotive Performance: A site about German steam locomotives in the 20th century (in English), mostly. Decent articles on top locomotive performance (mainly about speed), along with some nice articles about what locomotive first broke the 100-mph mark and the various methods of timing trains.
The Douglas Self Site: Extreme Steam: Do you want to research alternative routes for locomotive development? Do you want to include steam locomotives that look more steampunk-y than steam locomotives inherently are, but want a justification for it? This is the site for you.
Historic Pittsburgh- Maps from 1872 to 1940: Exactly as it says on the tin. I haven't looked through all the maps, but at least some of them are detailed enough to include separate maps for each ward.
[BOOK] From Appomattox to Montmarte: Americans and the Paris Commune: Do you want to see how Americans interpreted the Paris Commune of 1871 and predicted how such a model would work in the United States? Do you want to read about Communards? How about class-labor relations in the Reconstruction era? Then you'll love this book.
The Douglas Self Site: Extreme Steam: Do you want to research alternative routes for locomotive development? Do you want to include steam locomotives that look more steampunk-y than steam locomotives inherently are, but want a justification for it? This is the site for you.
Historic Pittsburgh- Maps from 1872 to 1940: Exactly as it says on the tin. I haven't looked through all the maps, but at least some of them are detailed enough to include separate maps for each ward.
[BOOK] From Appomattox to Montmarte: Americans and the Paris Commune: Do you want to see how Americans interpreted the Paris Commune of 1871 and predicted how such a model would work in the United States? Do you want to read about Communards? How about class-labor relations in the Reconstruction era? Then you'll love this book.
Double-posting but I don't care because I'm so happy I found this link
USGenWeb Archives: They've got historical maps covering all the states from various time periods in great detail (I found detailed maps of all the townships in Berks County, Pennsylvania, 1876! Fuck yes!), digitized copies of census records dating back to the mid-1800s organized state-by-state, pension records, obituaries, marriage annoucements, a smattering of military information, penny postcards, and a lot more.
Not surprisingly it's focused on American affairs, but this site is already a godsend for me and I figured it'd be nice to share.
USGenWeb Archives: They've got historical maps covering all the states from various time periods in great detail (I found detailed maps of all the townships in Berks County, Pennsylvania, 1876! Fuck yes!), digitized copies of census records dating back to the mid-1800s organized state-by-state, pension records, obituaries, marriage annoucements, a smattering of military information, penny postcards, and a lot more.
Not surprisingly it's focused on American affairs, but this site is already a godsend for me and I figured it'd be nice to share.
Thande
Donor
Ooh, excellent find, sir
I'm just looking at the 1624 map of Virginia - really strange to see an "alien" land done in the same style as the John Speede English county maps from the same era I'm acquainted with.
Immigration Records From Harvard University
[SIZE=-1]OK. Maybe you didn't get to go to Harvard, but you can visit them online, and check out the wonderful digital collection on US Immigration. This is a deep collection with a lot of material, some dating back to Colonial days. Even if you don't find records on your specific ancestors, you will find a lot on what it was like to be an immigrant to 19th century America. [/SIZE]
maps.thehunthouse.net
[SIZE=-1]London street name changes 1857-1929 and 1929-1945. 8,000 road, street and place name changes taken from the London County Council lists and other sources. [/SIZE]
Free Genealogy Tools: What's in a (Place) Name?
[SIZE=-1]Now that you've learned where your ancestors hail from, find out more about that oddly named hamlet they once called home. Place name dictionaries and gazetteers offer a wealth of details on how places came to be named, and the history behind the choice. There are hundreds of such sources available online, and for free, so be sure to have a look. [/SIZE]
WWII Enlistment Records from the National Archives (NARA). There are more than 9 million records here of just about every man and woman who enlisted in the Army during the period of World War II (1938-1946).
A new online genealogy resource, The Soldier in Later Medieval England. The system, covering the years 1369-1453, currently has almost 250,000 records in three distinct databases: historic muster rolls, garrison database, and something known as the protection database.
Pulyn-Yr-Aleg Castle
[SIZE=-1]Historic castle site on the Welsh coast. [/SIZE]
The 1911 Irish Census is online, absolutely free, and fully searchable for all 4.4 million Irish men, women and children of the time. You can search by first or last name, of course. You can also focus searches on a given county, address or DED (election district). You can also specify gender and approximate age to help narrow down results...especially useful when searching on a name like, Oh, say....Fitzpatrick!
Soldiers of Gloucestershire
[SIZE=-1]The online collection of the Gloucestershire Regiment has been updated with approximately 5,000 new records and about 1,800 new photographs, and the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars by a further 300 new records and about 150 new photographs. - The 28th spent 7 years throughout Eastern Australia in the early 19th century and many soldiers settled in Australia. The free on line searchable database of soldiers names is available on the web site.[/SIZE]
Google News Archive - Newspapers and other digitized materials going back to the 1700's. And Google has been adding new archives at a furious pace, so this is a resource tool to return to on a regular basis.
The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Virtual Library - Downloadable Maps
[SIZE=-1]The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County's Virtual Library has downloadable full color Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps.[/SIZE]
His Majesty's Royal West India Rangers
[SIZE=-1]62 Royal West India Rangers disbanded in New Brunswick (now part of Canada) in 1819. Includes a list of the Rangers, their reported birthplace and previous regiment, their physical descriptions, their family composition in 1819,and sometimes links to other websites with more genealogical information.[/SIZE]
The Lordship & Barony of Kilmarnock
[SIZE=-1]This popular Scottish baronial website includes Ayre, Mitchell, Boyd, and Cunningham, with tartans and the Ayre heraldry. [/SIZE]
StonePics - Cemeteries of the Czech Republic
[SIZE=-1]StonePics has an on-going project to photograph and index the headstones of the Czech Republic. About 7000 names per month are being added to a searchable on-line database. [/SIZE]
Your Archives: Historical Streets Project
[SIZE=-1]A local and family history project where you are invited to write stories about localities, properties, institutions, and businesses, etc. in the U.K. The National Archives is in the process of converting about 300 binders of street indexes to the censuses of England and Wales for 1841-1891 to create an online finding aid and local history resource. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]OK. Maybe you didn't get to go to Harvard, but you can visit them online, and check out the wonderful digital collection on US Immigration. This is a deep collection with a lot of material, some dating back to Colonial days. Even if you don't find records on your specific ancestors, you will find a lot on what it was like to be an immigrant to 19th century America. [/SIZE]
maps.thehunthouse.net
[SIZE=-1]London street name changes 1857-1929 and 1929-1945. 8,000 road, street and place name changes taken from the London County Council lists and other sources. [/SIZE]
Free Genealogy Tools: What's in a (Place) Name?
[SIZE=-1]Now that you've learned where your ancestors hail from, find out more about that oddly named hamlet they once called home. Place name dictionaries and gazetteers offer a wealth of details on how places came to be named, and the history behind the choice. There are hundreds of such sources available online, and for free, so be sure to have a look. [/SIZE]
WWII Enlistment Records from the National Archives (NARA). There are more than 9 million records here of just about every man and woman who enlisted in the Army during the period of World War II (1938-1946).
A new online genealogy resource, The Soldier in Later Medieval England. The system, covering the years 1369-1453, currently has almost 250,000 records in three distinct databases: historic muster rolls, garrison database, and something known as the protection database.
Pulyn-Yr-Aleg Castle
[SIZE=-1]Historic castle site on the Welsh coast. [/SIZE]
The 1911 Irish Census is online, absolutely free, and fully searchable for all 4.4 million Irish men, women and children of the time. You can search by first or last name, of course. You can also focus searches on a given county, address or DED (election district). You can also specify gender and approximate age to help narrow down results...especially useful when searching on a name like, Oh, say....Fitzpatrick!
Soldiers of Gloucestershire
[SIZE=-1]The online collection of the Gloucestershire Regiment has been updated with approximately 5,000 new records and about 1,800 new photographs, and the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars by a further 300 new records and about 150 new photographs. - The 28th spent 7 years throughout Eastern Australia in the early 19th century and many soldiers settled in Australia. The free on line searchable database of soldiers names is available on the web site.[/SIZE]
Google News Archive - Newspapers and other digitized materials going back to the 1700's. And Google has been adding new archives at a furious pace, so this is a resource tool to return to on a regular basis.
The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Virtual Library - Downloadable Maps
[SIZE=-1]The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County's Virtual Library has downloadable full color Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps.[/SIZE]
His Majesty's Royal West India Rangers
[SIZE=-1]62 Royal West India Rangers disbanded in New Brunswick (now part of Canada) in 1819. Includes a list of the Rangers, their reported birthplace and previous regiment, their physical descriptions, their family composition in 1819,and sometimes links to other websites with more genealogical information.[/SIZE]
The Lordship & Barony of Kilmarnock
[SIZE=-1]This popular Scottish baronial website includes Ayre, Mitchell, Boyd, and Cunningham, with tartans and the Ayre heraldry. [/SIZE]
StonePics - Cemeteries of the Czech Republic
[SIZE=-1]StonePics has an on-going project to photograph and index the headstones of the Czech Republic. About 7000 names per month are being added to a searchable on-line database. [/SIZE]
Your Archives: Historical Streets Project
[SIZE=-1]A local and family history project where you are invited to write stories about localities, properties, institutions, and businesses, etc. in the U.K. The National Archives is in the process of converting about 300 binders of street indexes to the censuses of England and Wales for 1841-1891 to create an online finding aid and local history resource. [/SIZE]
Sorry, I somehow missed this.
From high to low priority and interest:
- Relationship with the World, and resultant interactions
- Society and Government
- Economic Structure, activities, and the development of technology and civilization during the 19th and 20th centuries
- Culture
- Religion
- Military Organization, Tactics, and Formations
- Military Leaders
- Politicians and political ideas
But I've already tried looking for those, and besides a few web pages on the internet, I've found nothing useful to me on Tibet.
I'd be indebted if anyone did find anything.
I don't know if this has already been posted before, but I found a site with romanization tables for many languages. Its the American romanization.
ALA-LC Romanization Tables
ALA-LC Romanization Tables
Effigies & Brasses
[SIZE=-1]Searchable database of medieval tomb monuments - effigies, brasses, etc. Generally focusing on 1200-1450 in all countries where such monuments are present. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Searchable database of medieval tomb monuments - effigies, brasses, etc. Generally focusing on 1200-1450 in all countries where such monuments are present. [/SIZE]
Nifty website that conjugates verbs for you, so ease in writing in a foreign language increases tenfold.
Verbinator
Verbinator
http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/photolib/maps/index.html
Huge database of historical maps, ripe for vectoring over
Huge database of historical maps, ripe for vectoring over
http://forum.cartographersguild.com/
The Cartographers' Guild, an excellent resource for tutorials and other information about creating your own maps.
The Cartographers' Guild, an excellent resource for tutorials and other information about creating your own maps.