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Multi-State Collections of Searchable Historical
Digitized Newspapers and Periodicals
All of these collections have large amounts of content and
none of them are geared specifically to baseball research. My selective
lists of key titles are chosen accordingly and comments are geared toward my
interests and to cities and periods when baseball was prominent. I have done my
best to include newspapers with complete or near complete runs and omit ones
where there are just a few stray issues. This is difficult, however, and
there may be gaps within a newspaper's date range.
THOMSON GALE
NINETEENTH CENTURY NEWSPAPERS, key papers, date range
(Only available through subscribing libraries)
Daily Evening Bulletin (San Francisco)
1855-1893
Los Angeles Times 1881-1890
Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 1873-1898
Daily Mining Record (Denver) 1893-1899
Denver Evening Post 1894-1899
Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 1874-1896
Atchison (KS) Daily Champion 1857-1892
Atchison (KS) Globe (Atchison, KS) 1879-1899
Emporia (KS) Daily Gazette (Emporia, KS) 1890-1899
Lowell (MA) Daily Citizen 1856-1879
Boston Daily Advertiser 1855-1899
Bangor (ME) Daily Whig and Courier 1848-1899
St. Paul (MN) Daily News 1889-1894
St. Louis Globe-Democrat 1875-1888
News and Observer (Raleigh, NC) 1880-1899
Bismarck (ND) Tribune 1866-1899
New York Herald 1830-1863
Cleveland Daily Herald 1835-1884
Portland Oregonian 1862-1899
North American (Philadelphia) 1801-1899
Galveston (TX) Daily News 1874-1897
Milwaukee Journal 1882-1899
Milwaukee Daily
Sentinel 1844-1899
Comments: the Thomson Gale collection includes issues from
hundreds of different newspapers, but often only a handful of newspapers per
title. Its search function and quality of reproduction are excellent.
CHRONICLING AMERICA (free!)
http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/
All newspapers are between 1900 and 1910, so I have not
tried to break them down more exactly. Key titles:
Evening World (New York)
New York Sun
San Francisco Call
Salt Lake Herald
The Times Dispatch (Richmond, Va)
Washington Herald
Washington Sunday Globe
Washington Times
Comments: The only states included are California, DC, Florida, Kentucky, New
York, Utah and Virginia. There are currently a few dozen titles but those are
the key ones. The search function and quality of reproduction are excellent.
GENEALOGY BANK
Subscription site:
http://www.genealogybank.com
Key Titles:
San Francisco Bulletin 1855-1891
San Jose Mercury News 1886-1922
Miami Herald Record 1911-1922
Columbus (GA) Ledger-Enquirer 1855-1922
Macon (GA) Weekly Telegraph 1826-1922
Idaho Statesman 1864-1922
Belleville (IL) News Democrat 1901-1922
Chicago Inter-Ocean 1875-1889
Fort Wayne News Sentinel 1919-1922
Topeka Weekly Capital 1884-1898
Lexington (KY) Herald 1896-1922
Baltimore Sun 1848-1901
Duluth (MN) News-Tribune 1888-1922
Minneapolis Journal 1895-1900
Gulfport (MS) Daily Herald 1890-1919
St. Louis Republic(an), aka Missouri Republican 1841-1888
Kansas City (MO) Star 1880-1922
Omaha World Herald 1890-1907
Nevada State Journal 1893-1922
Albuquerque Morning Democrat 1886-1898
New Mexican 1888-1900
Charlotte (NC) News 1889-1922
Charlotte (NC) Observer 1892-1922
Bismarck (ND) Tribune 1885-1900
Grand Forks (ND) Herald 1879-1922
Philadelphia Inquirer 1860-1922
Wilkes-Barre Times 1877-1922
State (Columbia, SC) 1891-1922
Aberdeen (SD) Daily News 1885-1917
Aberdeen (SD) American 1907-1917
Knoxville (TN) Journal 1888-1896
Dallas Morning News 1885-1977
Fort Worth Star-Telegram 1900-1922
San Antonio Express 1867-1913
Bellingham (WA) Herald 1903-1922
Olympia (WA) Morning Tribune 1891-1922
Olympia (WA) Record 1902-1922
Tacoma (WA) News 1890-1898
Wheeling (WV) 1874-1897
Comments: First-rate search and reproduction quality.
For a complete list of titles, click
here.
NEWSPAPER ARCHIVE
Subscription site:
www.newspaperarchive.com
Comments: This is a huge collection, focusing on small and
mid-size Midwestern newspapers. The collection is large and diverse enough
that I haven't tried to summarize key titles. The search function can be
used to find specific names or words, but it can be very frustrating to use. I often do the same
search twice in rapid succession and get different numbers of hits.
PAPER OF RECORD
While you have to sign up, this site is free:
www.paperofrecord.com
Key Titles:
Sporting News 1886-on
Baltimore Afro-American 1902-1978 (some gaps)
Lock Haven (PA) Express 1889-1931
Williamsport (PA) Sunday Grit 1882-1990
Toronto World 1880-1887, 1918-1921
Comments: It's a fairly large collection, but mostly from
Canada and Mexico and/or from periods before baseball became popular. The
reproduction quality of issues of Sporting News prior to 1930 are generally very
poor -- they can be browsed and read, but for all intents and purposes cannot be
searched. The search function gets better after 1930, but only works only in five-year increments.
PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS
(Only available through subscribing libraries or on a pay-per-article basis)
Key Titles:
Los Angeles Times 1881-1985
Hartford Courant 1840-1993
Atlanta Constitution 1868-1929
Chicago Defender 1905-1975
Chicago Tribune 1849-1985
Boston Globe 1872-1924
Christian Science Monitor 1909-1993
Amsterdam News 1922-1993
New York Times 1851-2003
Wall Street Journal 1889-1989
Pittsburgh Courier 1911-2002
Washington Post 1878-1990
Comments: Some libraries have a few of these selections, but few have all.
First-rate search and reproduction quality.
PROQUEST AMERICAN PERIODICAL SERIES
While ProQuest is best known among baseball researchers for its newspaper
collection, it also has many other offerings. The American Periodical Series (APS),
in particular, offers several titles with excellent coverage of baseball.
Key Titles:
Forest and Stream 1873-1930 (baseball coverage is only good during the 1870s)
National Police Gazette 1845-1906
Spirit of the Times 1835-1861
Comments: More libraries seem to have this ProQuest collection than the
historical newspaper collection. First-rate search and reproduction quality.
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