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1789-1860: Newspaper Titles

Newspaper Titles

The following newspaper titles are available in micro-format in the Newspapers and Microforms Department, on the first floor of Bostock Library.  These titles have runs of three years or more.  Dates in brackets [ ] indicate scattered issues and the card catalog, located at the rear of Bostock Library first floor, should be consulted for exact holdings.  The resources below are organized alphabetically by state, then by paper.

Alabama

Alabama Beacon (Greensboro, Ala.)

Call Number: N3889
Format: Microfilm
Holdings:
[1839-1879]

Alabama Sentinel (Greensboro, Ala.)

Call Number: N3888
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Apr. 9, 1836 - ?

Connecticut

Connecticut Courant and Weekly Intelligencer (Hartford, Conn.)

Call Number: N4196
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: [1764-1816]

Connecticut Gazette and Universal Intelligencer (New Haven, Conn.)

Call Number: N301
Format: Microprint
Holdings: 1763-1820

Georgia

Gazette of the State of Georgia (Savannah, GA)

Call Number: N285
Format: Microprint
Holdings: [1763-1800]

Sumter Republican (Americus, GA)

Call Number: S5366
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: [1854-1862]

Kentucky

Kentucky Gazette (Lexington, KY)

Call Number: S4780
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1789-1806
                      1809-1810

Kentucky Reporter (Lexington, KY)

Call Number: N4781
Format: Microfilm
Holdings:
Mar. 12, 1808-Dec. 29, 1830

Louisana

L'Abeille (New Orleans, LA)

Call Number: S5494
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1827-1882

Bee (New Orleans, LA)

Call Number: S5494
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1832-1835

New Orleans Bee (New Orleans, LA)

Call Number: S5494
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1835-1923

Maryland

Lutheran Observer (Baltimore, Md.)

Call Number: N2059
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1831-1851

Maryland Gazette (Annapolis, Md.)

Call Number: N4793
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: [1745-1839]

Note: Very scattered holdings; some issues incomplete.

Sun (Baltimore, Md.)

Call Number: S167
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: May 17, 1837-1841
                     1843-Apr. 8, 1844
                     1882
                     1885-Aug. 1893
                     Dec. 1893-1916
                     1918-Jun. 1946
                     1971- to date

Massachusetts

Constitutional Telegraph (Boston, Mass.)

Call Number: N279
Format: Microprint
Holdings: 1799-1802

Democrat (Boston, Mass.)

Call Number: N312
Format: Microprint
Holdings: 1804-1809

Herald of Freedom (Boston, Mass.)

Call Number: N268
Format: Microprint
Holdings: Sept. 15, 1788-Jul. 19, 1791

Independent Chronicle (Boston, Mass.)

Call Number: N289
Format: Microprint
Holdings: 1776-1820

Note: Title varies: Independent Chronicle and Universal Advertiser. Published earlier in Salem, Mass. under title: Essex Gazette, and in Cambridge, Mass. under title: New England Chronicle.

Liberator (Boston, Mass.)

Call Number: N736
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1831-1865

Nevada

Daily Territorial Enterprise (Virginia City, Nev.)

Call Number: N4243
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Dec. 17, 1859-Dec. 30, 1866

New Hampshire

Constitutionalist (Exeter, NH)

Call Number: N280
Format: Microprint
Holdings: 1810-1814

Herald of Gospel Liberty (Portsmouth, NH)

Call Number: N288
Format: Microprint
Holdings: 1808-1810
                     1814-1816

New Hampshire Journal, or the Farmer's Market Weekly Museum (Walpole, NH)

Call Number: N2499
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Sept. 1, 1795-last issue 1799 

New Jersey

Centinel of Freedom (Newark, NJ)

Call Number: N274
Format: Microprint
Holdings: 1796-1820

New Jersey Journal (Elizabeth, NJ)

Call Number: N3657
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: May 10, 1786-Apr. 12, 1814
                     Apr. 19, 1814-Feb. 27, 1821 

New York

American Citizen (New York, NY)

Call Number: N265
Format: Microprint
Holdings: 1800-1810

American Minerva (New York, NY)

Call Number: N267
Format: Microprint
Holdings: 1793-1796

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper (New York, NY)

Call Number: N4771
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Dec. 15, 1855-Jun. 17, 1922

Herald (New York, NY)

Call Number: N5037
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Aug. 31, 1835-May 20, 1837

Morning Herald (New York, NY)

Call Number: N5037
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: May 22, 1837-Sept. 19, 1840

National Anti-Slavery Standard (New York, NY)

Call Number: N2813
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1840-1870

New York Times (New York, NY)

Call Number: Bostock 1st Floor
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1851-to date

Saturday Press (New York, NY)

Call Number: N3677
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Oct. 23, 1858-Dec. 15, 1860
                     Aug. 5, 1865

Shamrock (New York, NY)

Call Number: N313
Format: Microprint
Holdings: 1810-1817

The War (New York, NY)

Call Number: N318
Format: Microprint
Holdings: 1812-1817

North Carolina

18th Century North Carolina Newspapers -- Raleigh, NC: N.C. Dept. of Archives and History

Call Number: S5971
Format: Microfilm

Catawba Journal (Charlotte, NC)

Call Number: N3606
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Oct. 4, 1824-Feb. 27, 1834

Edenton Gazette (Edenton, NC)

Call Number: N3619
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Feb. 26, 1806-Dec. 21, 1831

Hillsborough Recorder (Hillsborough, NC)

Call Number: N3703
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Mar. 1, 1820-Dec. 29, 1911

New Bern Spectator (New Bern, NC)

Call Number: N3656
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Aug. 9, 1828-Sept. 10, 1842

Raleigh Register (Raleigh, NC)

Call Number: N4843
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1799-1886

Call Number: N4844
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1823-1831
                     1840-1862

Star (Raleigh, NC)

Call Number: N4860
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Nov. 3, 1808-Jun. 18, 1856

Yadkin and Catawba Journal (Salisbury, NC)

Call Number: N3606
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1828-1834

Ohio

Cleveland Herald (Cleveland, OH)

Call Number: L.S. 271
Format: Microfilm
Holdings:  Oct. 19, 1819-Dec. 20, 1825

Fredonian (Chillicothe, OH)

Call Number: N3622
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: [1808-1815]

Ohio Patriot (New Lisbon, OH)

Call Number: N3668
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Jan. 6, 1821-Dec. 20, 1825

Sandusky Clarion (Sandusky, OH)

Call Number: N3675
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Apr. 24, 1822-1825

Scioto Gazette (Chillicothe, OH)

Call Number: N4854-N4855
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: [1800-1857]

Supporter (Chillicothe, OH)

Call Number: N4345
Format: Microfilm
Holdings:  [1808-1821]

Western Spy (Cincinnatti, OH)

Call Number: N3683
Format: Microfilm
Holdings:  1799-1822

Pennsylvania

Carlisle Gazette (Carlisle, PA)

Call Number: N273
Format: Microprint
Holdings: 1785-1817

De Wahre Amerikaner (Lancaster, PA)

Call Number: N317
Format: Microprint
Holdings: 1804-1811

Dunlap's Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia, PA)

Call Number: N283
Format: Microprint
Holdings: 1891-1795

Erie Observer (Erie, PA)

Call Number: N5597
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1857-1866

Erie Weekly Gazette (Erie, PA)

Call Number: N3598
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1857-1867

Harrisburg Daily Telegraph (Harrisburg, PA)

Call Number: N3601
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1857-1866

Harrisburg Telegraph (Harrisburg, PA)

Call Number: N3601
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1855-1861

Herald of Gospel Liberty (Philadelphia, PA)

Call Number: N288
Format: Microprint
Holdings: 1811-1814

Independent Gazeteer (Philadelphia, PA)

Call Number: N2811
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Apr. 13, 1782-Sept. 12, 1797

Pennsylvania Freeman (Philadelphia, PA)

Call Number: N2810
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: [1833-1854]

Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser (Philadelphia, PA)

Call Number: N4832
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1742-1783

The Presbyterian (Philadelphia, PA)

Call Number: N4841
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1831-1840

Public Ledger (Philadelphia, PA)

Call Number: S5330
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1836-1934

South Carolina

Charleston Daily Courier (Charleston, SC)

Call Number: N4745
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1803-1959
Title Varies: Charleston News & Courier

Charleston Mercury (Charleston, SC)

Call Number: N4747
Format:
Microfilm
Holdings:
[1822-1845]

Charleston Observer (Charleston, SC)

Call Number: N4746
Format:
Microfilm
Holdings:
1827-1845 

Vermont

Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, VT)

Call Number: N4730
Format:
Microfilm
Holdings:
Feb. 5, 1784-Mar. 30, 1816 

Green Mountain Patriot (Peacham, VT)

Call Number: N286
Format:
Microprint
Holdings:
1798-1809

Virginia

Religious Herald (Richmond, VA)

Call Number: N2809
Format:
Microfilm
Holdings:
May 21, 1828-Dec. 30, 1897

Virginia Herald and Fredericksburg Advertiser (Fredericksburg, VA)

Call Number: N3694
Format:
Microfilm
Holdings:
[1792-1795]

 

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