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The New York times on the Web
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1851-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1851-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1851-present.
Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : New York Times.
Offers full-page-images and article images from the New York Times from its first issue in 1851 to three years before the current date. The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue, cover to cover, in downloadable image files.
Pennsylvania gazette
Holdings:
Full text from: Folio 1 (1728) - Folio 4 (1800)
Publisher: Malvern, PA : Accessible Archives, [1728-1800]
Provider: AA
Provides full-text access to the Pennsylvania gazette a newspaper published in Philadelphia from 1728-1800. This archive is fully digitized.
Harper's weekly
Holdings:
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1857-1912.
Publisher: [New York, Harper's Magazine Co., etc.]
Provides citations to Harper's Weekly magazine. Also contains browsable full-text of Harper's Weekly from the Civil War Era to the Gilded Age.
Nation (New York, N.Y. : 1865)
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1865-present except most recent 1 month(s).
(Haverford College) Available from 1988-2005.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1865-present except most recent 1 month(s).
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : J.H. Richards,
Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore's holdings include scanned page images and searchable text for all issues of The Nation published from 1865. Haverford holdings start in 1988.
Washington post (Washington, D.C. : 1974)
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1877-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1977-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1877-present.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The Washington Post Co.,
Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore's holdings begin with 1877 and include digital reproductions of every page from every issue, cover to cover, in downloadable image files. Haverford holdings provide full-text of articles from 1977 through the present.
Newspaper sets:
America's historical newspapers
Provider: Readex
Ser.I, 1690-1876. This collection provides images and full-text content access to historic newspapers listed in Clarence Brigham's authoritative bibliography, History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820, and in additional subsequent bibliographies. -- Ser.II, 1758-1900. This collection focuses on the 18th- and 19th-century newspapers. -- Ser. III, 1829-1922. This collection focuses on the 19th- and 20th-century newspapers including Civil War, Reconstruction, the Progressive Era and beyond.
Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800)
Provider: Readex
Covers American history and literature from the colonial period to the eighteenth century. Provides full-text digitization of the Early American Imprints microform set, Series I (1639-1800).
Early American imprints. Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)
Provider: Readex
Covers American history and literature from the colonial period to the eighteenth century. Provides full-text digitization of the Early American Imprints microform set, Series II (1801-1819). Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States.
Historical newspapers online
Provides online indexing to the Times (London) from 1790-1980 and the New York Times from 1851-1923. Offers information in a variety of fields including history, politics, economics, business and journalism.
Pennsylvania Newspaper Record
Contains full-text transcriptions of articles, advertisements and statistics from newspapers published in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Covers works published from 1819-1870.
Paper of record
Paper of Record is an historical archive of full-page newspaper images that you can search for unique coverage of past events. The archive is created from newspaper collections on microfilm, preserving the original format of the paper.
Scholarly and popular periodicals:
19th century masterfile
Provider: Paratext
Offers millions of citations to periodicals, newspapers, books, patents and government documents published prior to 1925.
Periodicals index online (Chadwyck)
Index to journal articles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, including some published as far back as 1770. Includes periodicals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages.
Readers' guide retrospective
Provides indexing of general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.