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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.
Philadelphia tribune (Philadelphia, Pa. : 1884)
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1912-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1991-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1912-present.
Publisher: Philadelphia [Pa.] : C.J. Perry,
Founded in 1884, the Tribune is the oldest continually published African-American newspaper in the U.S. Available in full page images and article images from ProQuest Historical Newspapers (1912 - 2001) and in full text from Ethnic Newswatch (1991 - present).
Washington post (Washington, D.C. : 1974)
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1877-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1877-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.
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.
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.
Newspaper sets:
19th century British Library newspapers
Browseable and searchable online collection of historical British newspapers, scanned in their original format. Covers 1800-1900.
19th century UK periodicals
Contains nearly 600 periodicals published in Great Britain from 1800-1900.
America's historical newspapers
Provider: Readex
Offers 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 through the Civil War, Reconstruction, Progressive Eras and beyond. Series 1, 1690-1876; Series 2, 1758-1922; Series 3, 1829-1922; Series 4, 1759-1922; Series 5, 1777-1922; Series 6, 1741-1922; Series 7, 1773-1922.
Chronicling America
Search and view selected newspapers from 1890-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800)
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.