18th and 19th Century Newspapers at the University of Arizona Library
Background:
Microfilm is located on the first floor of the Main Library in the compact shelving. Ask for help with microfilm at Circulation Desk; you may use the phone in the first floor reading room for this purpose.
Additional Notes :
This is a list of newspapers that the UA Library has in print or microform - if it is also available online a link is provided. For electronic newspapers only available online search the catalog by the publication city and subject word "newspapers."
Floor Plan of Main Microforms:
Main-Floor1C-Map[1] (PDF)
Table Key:
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| MF: | Microfilm |
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| MFC: | Microfiche |
| MFA: | Microfilm Alphabetical |
| Newspapers: | Alphabetically arranged in compact shelving on the first floor of the Main Library |
| *: | African-American Newspaper |
Newspaper Titles:
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| State/City |
Title | Dates | Call/Micro # | Location |
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Alabama: |
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Huntsville |
Huntsville Gazette * | 1881-1894 | MF #4616 | Main Micro |
Mobile |
Mobile Daily Register | 1859-1864 | MF #2072 | Main Micro |
Arizona: |
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Bisbee |
Arizona Daily Orb | 1898-1899 | Special Coll. | |
Weekly Orb |
1898-1899 | Special Coll. | ||
(Note: The Arizona Daily Orb and Weekly Orb merged) |
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Phoenix |
Arizona Republic | 1890-- | Newspapers | |
Tombstone |
Tombstone Prospector | 1887-1889 | MF #4492 | Main Micro |
(Note: Tombstone Epitaph was the Sunday edition of this paper) |
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Tucson |
Arizona Weekly Citizen | 1878-1881 | MF #4488 | Main Micro |
Arizona Daily Star |
1879-- | MF #4488 | Main Micro | |
Arizona Weekly Star |
1877-1899 | MF #4489 | Main Micro | |
Tucson Citizen |
1879-- | Newspapers | ||
(Previously known as Arizona Daily Citizen) |
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Weekly Arizonian |
1859-1871 | MF #800 | Main Micro | |
California: |
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Los Angeles |
Los Angeles Times | 1881-- | Film Newspaper | Main Micro |
Oroville |
Butte Democrat | 1859-1862 | MF #2188 | Main Micro |
San Francisco |
Daily Alta California | 1849-1869 | MF #4476 | Main Micro |
Daily Evening Bulletin |
1855-1895 | MF #6614 | Main Micro | |
San Francisco Chronicle |
1869-- | Newspapers | Main Micro | |
Santa Rosa |
Santa Rosa Press-Democrat |
1857-1923 | MF #2340 | |
Visalia |
Equal Rights Expositor |
1862-1863 | MF #2187 | Main Micro |
Tulare County Record |
1859-1867 | MF #2189 | Main Micro | |
Visalia Weekly Delta |
1859-1919 | MF #2189 | Main Micro | |
Colorado: |
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Denver |
Denver Post | 1946-2005 | Film Newspaper | Main Micro |
Rocky Mountain News |
1860-1879 | MF #2345 | Main Micro | |
Rocky Mountain News |
1860-1879 | MF #2345 | Main Micro | |
Connecticut: |
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Hartford |
American Mercury |
1784-1825 | MF #7599 | Main Micro |
Connecticut Mirror |
1809-1832 | MF #7599 | Main Micro | |
Litchfield |
Witness |
1805-1807 | MF #7590 | Main Micro |
Litchfield Gazette |
1808-1809 | MF #7590 | Main Micro | |
New London |
Connecticut Gazette |
1763-1820 | MF #7616 | Main Micro |
Florida: |
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St. Petersburg |
St. Petersburg Times |
1980-1993 | Film Newspaper | Main Micro |
Georgia: |
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Atlanta |
Atlanta Constitution |
1868-- | Newspapers | |
Columbus |
Columbus Enquirer |
1855-1866 | MF #2342 | Main Micro |
Enquirer |
1867-1878 | MF #3289 | Main Micro | |
Illinois: |
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Chicago |
Chicago Tribune |
1849-2005 | Newspapers | Main Micro |
Jacksonville |
Jacksonville Journal |
1860-1866 | MF #2844 | Main Micro |
Indiana: |
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Indianapolis |
Indianapolis Daily Journal |
1859-1860 | MF #2185 | Main Micro |
Crawfordsville |
Crawfordsville Saturday Evening Journal |
1875-1886 | MF #5009 | Main Micro |
Iowa: |
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Burlington |
Burlington Weekly Hawkeye |
1843-1851 | MF #3272 | Main Micro |
Kansas: |
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Albilene |
Albilene Chronicle | 1886-1908; 1910-1914 | MF #6600 | Main Micro |
Kentucky: |
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Covington |
Covington Journal |
1857-1862 | MF #2186 | Main Micro |
Louisville |
Louisville Courier |
1858-1861 | MF #2078 | Main Micro |
Louisville Daily Courier |
1858-1865 | MF #2079 | Main Micro | |
Louisiana: |
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New Orleans |
L'Abeille de la Nouvelle Orleans |
1827-1900 | MF #2073 | Main Micro |
(New Orleans Bee) |
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New Orleans Tribune |
1864-1869 | MF #4617 | Main Micro | |
(La Tribune de la Nouvelle-Orleans) * |
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Times-Picayuune |
1837-1993 | Newspapers | Main Micro | |
The Weekly Louisianian * |
1870-1882 | MF #4618 | Main Micro | |
Maine: |
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Portland |
Eastern Argus |
1803-1820 | MF #7612 | Main Micro |
Massachusetts: |
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Boston |
American Apollo |
1792-1794 | MF #4501/7623 | Main Micro |
Argus |
1791-1793 | MF #7628 | Main Micro | |
Boston Chronicle |
1767-1770 | MF #7624 Reel 1 |
Main Micro | |
Boston Evening Post |
1735-1775 | MF #7588 | Main Micro | |
Boston Evening Transcript |
1858-1865 | MF #2071 | Main Micro | |
Boston Gazette |
1719-1798 | MF #7604 Reels 3-9 |
Main Micro | |
Boston News-Letter |
1704-1776 | MF #7615 | Main Micro | |
Boston Post-Boy |
1735-1775 | MF #7588 Reels 5-8 |
Main Micro | |
Boston Price Current |
1795-1802 | MF #7604 | Main Micro | |
The Censor |
1771-1772 | MF #7624 Reel 2 |
Main Micro | |
Columbian Centinel |
1790-1820 | MF #7613 | Main Micro | |
Continental Journal |
1776-1787 | MF #7593 | Main Micro | |
Federal Orrery |
1794-1796 | MF #7623 Reel 2 |
Main Micro | |
Herald of Freedom |
1788-1791 | MF #7628 | Main Micro | |
Independent Chronicle |
1776-1820 | MF #7620 | Main Micro | |
Independent Ledger |
1778-1786 | MF #7605 | Main Micro | |
Massachusetts Centinel |
1784-1790 | MF #7607 | Main Micro | |
Massachusetts Mercury |
1793-1803 | MF #7598 | Main Micro | |
Massachusetts Spy |
1767-1772 | MF #7624 Reel 2 |
Main Micro | |
New England Chronicle |
1776-- | MF #7620 | Main Micro | |
New England Courant |
1721-1727 | MF #7625 | Main Micro | |
New England Palladium |
1803-1820 | MF #7614 | Main Micro | |
New England Weekly Journal |
1727-1741 | MF #7600 | Main Micro | |
Weekly Rehearsal |
1731-1735 | MF #7625 | Main Micro | |
Yankee |
1812-1819 | MF #7595 | Main Micro | |
Yankee |
1828-- | MF #3299 | Main Micro | |
Salem |
Impartial Register*** |
1800-- | MF #7626 | Main Micro |
Salem Impartial Register*** |
1801-1807 | MF #7626 | Main Micro | |
Essex Register*** |
1800-1820 | MF #7626 | Main Micro | |
*** Same paper, just changed titles through the years |
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Salem Gazette |
1790-1820 | MF #7627 | Main Micro | |
Salem Mercury |
1866-1860 | MF #7627 | Main Micro | |
Springfield |
Springfield Republican |
1844-- | MF #2341 | Main Micro |
Worcester |
National Aegis |
1801-1820 | MF #7597 | Main Micro |
Mississippi: |
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Jackson |
Clarion Ledger |
1869-1890 | MF #3290 | Main Micro |
Natchez |
Mississippi Free Trader |
1858-1860 | MF #2076 | Main Micro |
Natchez Daily Free Trader |
1858-1860 | MF #2075 | Main Micro | |
Weekly Democrat or Natchez Weekly Democrat |
1865-1876 | MF #3291 | Main Micro | |
Missouri: |
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Kansas City |
Kansas City Enterprise |
1855-1857 | MF #6602 | Main Micro |
St. Louis Old School Democrat |
1843 |
MF #2121 | Main Micro | |
St. Louis Democrat |
1843-1861 | MF #2121 | Main Micro | |
Daily Missouri Democrat |
1858-1861 | MF #2121 | Main Micro | |
Saint Louis |
Missouri Argus |
1835-1840 | MFA #6609 | Main Micro |
Saint Louis Beacon |
1829-1832 | MFA #6605 | Main Micro | |
Saint Louis Enquirer |
1819-1824 | MFA #6604 | Main Micro | |
Columbia Missourian |
1929; 1966-1985 | Online | Internet | |
Daily Evening Herald |
1835 |
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The Far West |
1836 | |||
Hannibal Courier |
1935; 1988 | |||
The Independent |
1894-1905 | |||
The Liberty Banner |
1844 | |||
Liberty Weekly Tribune |
1846-1852; 1850-1883 | |||
Missouri Republican |
1865 | |||
St. Louis Christian Advocate |
1857-1858; 1860; 1866-1870, 1874-1879 | |||
St. Louis Globe Democrat |
1875-- | |||
St. Louis Palladium |
1907 | |||
New Hampshire: |
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Portsmouth |
New Hampshire Mercury |
1784-1788 | MF #7621 | Main Micro |
Walpole |
Farmer's Weekly Museum |
1797-1810 | MF #7610 | Main Micro |
New Hampshire Journal |
1793-1797 | MF #7621 | Main Micro | |
New Jersey: |
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Burlington |
New Jersey & Trenton Gazette |
1777-1788 | MF #7609 | Main Micro |
New Mexico: |
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Raton |
Raton Comet |
1882-1886 | MF #6610 | Main Micro |
Raton Daily Range |
1887-1911 | MF #6610 | Main Micro | |
Raton Guard |
1881-1882 | MF #6610 | Main Micro | |
Santa Fe |
Santa Fe New Mexican |
1868-1883 1886-1912 |
MF #4477 | Main Micro |
Silver City |
Silver City Tribune |
1873-- | MF #1458 | Main Micro |
New York: |
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New York |
American Minerva |
1793-1797 | MF #7619 | Main Micro |
Brooklyn Daily Eagle http://www.brooklyn publiclibrary.org/eagle/ |
1841-1902 | Online | Internet | |
Douglass' Monthly * |
1859-1863 | MFC #1891 | Main Micro | |
(Suppl. to Frederick Douglass' Paper, see Rochester, NY) |
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Freedom's Journal * |
1827-1829 | MF #7673 | Main Micro | |
Harper's Weekly |
1857-1916 | AP 2 .H32 | ||
Independent |
1848-1850 | MF #4860 | Main Micro | |
(New York) |
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National Anti-Slavery Standard |
1840-1870 | MF #7550 | Main Micro | |
New York Herald |
1835-1919 | MF #5051 | Main Micro | |
(Also known as New York Herald-Tribune) |
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New York Journal, or General Advertiser |
1766-- | MF #2042 | Main Micro | |
New York Times |
1851-- | Newspapers | Main Newspapers | |
New York Daily Tribune |
1851-1907 | MF #4474 | Main Micro | |
New York Tribune |
1866-1876 | MF #4474 | Main Micro | |
New York Weekly Journal |
1733-1751 | MF #7601 | Main Micro | |
The Sun |
1900-1947 | MF #3502 | Main Micro | |
The World |
1860-1880 | MF# 3306 | Main Micro | |
Jamestown |
Chautauquan |
1881-1903 | AP 2 .C45 | |
Rochester |
The North Star |
1847-1851 | MF #7672 | Main Micro |
(Later, Frederick Douglass' Paper, also supplemented by Douglass' Monthly, see New York City) * |
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North Carolina: |
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Charlotte |
North Carolina Whig |
1852-1863 | MF #2086 | Main Micro |
Greensboro
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Greensborough Patriot |
1855-1860 | MF #2089 | Main Micro |
Little Ad. |
1860-- | MF #2089 | Main Micro | |
Raleigh
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Democratic Press |
1859-1860 | MF #2087 | Main Micro |
Live Giraffe and the Democratic Press |
1852-1860 | MF #2087 | Main Micro | |
(Many issues missing) |
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North Carolina Standard |
1856-1868 | MF #2088 | Main Micro | |
North Carolina Whig |
1852-1863 | MF #2086 | Main Micro | |
Raleigh Sentinel |
1865-1877 | MF #3280 | Main Micro | |
Raleigh Register |
1814-- | MF #1819 | Main Micro | |
Wilmington |
Daily Herald |
1851-1861 | MF #2090 | Main Micro |
Wilmington Herald |
1865-1866 | MF #2091 | Main Micro | |
Ohio: |
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Cleveland |
Plain Dealer |
1896-1919; 1967 | Film Newspaper | Main Newspapers |
Pennsylvania: |
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Greensburg |
Pennsylvania Argus |
1847-1854;1862-1866; 1872-1874 | MF #2081 | Main Micro |
Lancaster |
Der Wahre Amerikaner |
1804-1811 | MF #7589 | Main Micro |
Philadelphia |
American Weekly Mercury |
1719-1746 | MF #7594 | Main Micro |
Freeman's Journal |
1781-1792 | MF #7606 | Main Micro | |
Level of Europe |
1794-1796 | MF #7630 | Main Micro | |
National Anti-Slavery Standard * |
1840-1870 | MF #7550 | Main Micro | |
National Gazette |
1791-1793 | MF #7630 | Main Micro | |
Philadelphia Minerva |
1795-1798 | MF #7630 | Main Micro | |
Penn. Journal & Weekly Adv. |
1742-1793 | MF #857 | Main Micro | |
Porcupine's Gazette |
1797-1800 | MF #7602 | Main Micro | |
Tickler |
1807-1813 | MF #3299/7611 | Main Micro | |
Rhode Island: |
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Newport |
Rhode-Island Gazette |
1732-1733 | MF #7629 | Main Micro |
Gazette Françoise |
1780-1781 | MF #7629 | Main Micro | |
Newport Herald |
1787-1791 | MF #7629 | Main Micro | |
Providence |
Providence Gazette |
1762-1825 | MF #7617 | Main Micro |
United State Chronicle |
1783-1804 | MF #7608 | Main Micro | |
South Carolina: |
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Charleston |
Charleston Daily Courier |
1803-1873 | MF #4472 | Main Micro |
Charleston Mercury |
1822-1908 | MF #3285 | Main Micro | |
Charleston Evening Gazette |
1785-1786 | MF #7647 | Main Micro | |
Charleston Morning Post |
1786-1787 | MF #7648 | Main Micro | |
(See also Daily Advertiser) |
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City Gazette |
1787-1803 | MF #7649 | Main Micro | |
Edgefield |
Advertiser |
1856-1885 | MF #3288 | Main Micro |
Greenville |
Enterprise and Mountaineer |
1871-1880 | MF #3342 | Main Micro |
(Also known as the Greenville Enterprise) |
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Tennessee: |
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Memphis |
Memphis Weekly Appeal-Avalanche |
1858-1860 | MF #2077 | Main Micro |
Memphis Avalanche |
1858-1890 | MF #2191 | Main Micro | |
Texas: |
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El Paso |
El Paso Times |
1883-1920 | MF #2194 | Main Micro |
Galveston |
Galveston Tri-Weekly News |
1869-1870 | MF #2512 | Main Micro |
Galveston Weekly News |
1842-1868 | MF #2511 | Main Micro | |
Utah: |
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Salt Lake City A digitized collection of Utah new papers can be found at: |
Deseret News |
1850-1898 | MF #4478 | Main Micro |
Deseret Weekly |
1888-1898 | MF #4478 | Main Micro | |
(Same paper as above - just changed name) |
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Salt Lake Tribune |
1871-2002 | Newspapers | Main Newspapers | |
Vermont: |
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Peacham |
Green Mountain Patriot |
1798-1810 | MF #7622 | Main Micro |
Rutland |
Rutland Weekly Herald |
1857-1861 | MF #2074 | Main Micro |
Virginia: |
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Alexandria |
People's Advocate |
1876-1886 | MF #4619 | Main Micro |
Lynchburg |
Lynchburg Daily Virginian |
1822-1893 | MF #2190 | Main Micro |
Richmond |
Richmond Enquirer |
1815-1855 1860-1861 |
MF #4475 | Main Micro |
Washington: |
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Seattle |
Seattle Daily Times |
1966-- | Film Newspaper | Main Newspapers |
Washington D.C.: |
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Constitution |
1859-1861 | MF #2175 | Main Micro | |
Daily National Intelligencer |
1800-1869 | MF #4480 | Main Micro | |
National Era * |
1847-1860 | MF #7566 | Main Micro | |
The People's Advocate * |
1876-1886 | MF #4619 | Main Micro | |
United States Daily |
1926-1933 | MF #4412 | Main Micro | |
Washington Post |
1889 -- | Film Newspaper | Main Newspapers | |
Washington Star News |
1852-1904 | MF #5012 | Main Micro | |
Washington Union |
1845-1859 | MF #2184 | Main Micro | |
West Virginia: |
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Parkersburg |
West Virginia Weekly Times |
1865-1872 | MF #3344 | Main Micro |