Publications generally containing reports on current events, editorials, features, photographs, and advertisements. Often give prominence to stories that have taken place in and around their place of publication. Usually published on a daily or weekly basis.
For help finding more recent issues of newspapers, see the library's guide to finding newspaper articles.
America's Historical Newspapers Complete contents and original layout of more than 1,000 newspapers published in the United States from 1690 to 1922.
Historical Black Newspapers Complete contents and original layout of five important African American newspapers. Search together or by individual title.
America's Historical Newspapers
Complete contents and original layout of more than 150 New York state newspapers published from the 18th century to the early-20th century. See title list.
1952-1957 - Microfilm. Full text and image. Can be saved in PDF format.
New York State Newspaper Project
The New York State Newspaper Project provides a searchable list of print and microfilm holdings for the State Library and other institutions statewide that were identified by the program from 1987 to 2007.
Use the table below to develop search strings for locating primary source bibliographies and collections in library catalogs. Words in the table and accompanying examples are derived from Library of Congress subject headings. Words enclosed in [ ] must be replaced with specific descriptors (e.g., use american in place of [nationality].
Change the defaults in the drop-down menus to the right to "as a phrase" and "subject" for entries shown in the "Enter this phrase" column from the table above.
