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American Newspapers and Microforms

1860-1920: Newspaper Titles

The following newspaper titles are available in the Newspapers and Microforms Department, located on the first floor of Bostock Library, in micro-format.  These titles have runs of three years or more.  Dates in brackets [ ] indicate scattered issues and the card catalog at the rear of the first floor of Bostock  library 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]

Georgia

Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, GA)

Call Number: S39
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: June 17, 1868-to date (Title varies)

Banner of the South (Augusta, GA)

Call Number: N3593
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Mar. 21, 1868-Oct. 29, 1870

Daily Constitutionalist (Augusta, GA)

Call Number: N4752
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1861-1869

Semi-Weekly Sumter Republican (Americus, GA)

Call Number: N5367
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: [1875-1881]

Tri-Weekly Republican (Americus, GA)

Call Number: N5367
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: [1865-1875]

Weekly Sumter Republican (Americus, GA)

Call Number: S5366
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: May 1870-Oct. 1885

Louisiana

Morning Star (New Orleans, LA)

Call Number: N4806
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Feb. 9, 1868-Feb. 2, 1879

New Orleans Bee (New Orleans, LA)

Call Number: S5495
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1835-1923

Maryland

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

Boston Daily Evening Transcript (Boston, MA)

Call Number: S5979
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1972-1915

Labor Leader (Boston, MA)

Call Number: S6122
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1887-1897

Liberator (Boston, MA)

Call Number: N736
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1931-1865

Nebraska

Nebraska Herald Index (Plattsmouth, Neb.)

Call Number: N3659
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Apr. 1865-Feb. 1872

Nevada

Daily Territorial Enterprise (Virginia City, NV)

Call Number: N4243
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Dec. 17, 1859-Jun. 17-1922

New York

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

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

National Anti-Slavery Standard (New York, NY)

Call Number: N2831
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1840-1870

New York Age (New York, NY)

Call Number: N3663
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1905-1909

New York Evening Call (New York, NY)

Call Number: S5846
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: May 1908-Nov. 1923

New York Herald (New York, NY)

Call Number: N5037
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Sept. 21, 1840-Dec. 21, 1919

New York Times (New York, NY)

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

New York Tribune (New York, NY)

Call Number: N5038
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Apr. 10, 1866-1877

Sun (New York, NY)

Call Number: N4861
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Nov. 1889-1920

Weekly Anglo-African (New York, NY)

Call Number: N2593
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1861-1865

World (New York, NY)

Call Number: N4877
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1861-Feb. 27, 1931

North Carolina

The Caucasion (Clinton, NC)

Call Number: N4743
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Mar. 13, 1884-May 5, 1913

Charlotte Daily Observer (Charlotte, NC)

Call Number: S50
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Jul. 11, 1897-Apr. 2, 1916

Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC)

Call Number: S50
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Apr. 3, 1916- to date

Chronicle (Duke University, Durham, NC)

Call Number: S53
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1905-to date

Daily Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC)

Call Number: S50
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Mar. 13, 1892-Jul. 8, 1897

Durham Daily Globe (Durham, NC)

Call Number: N3645
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Oct. 6, 1889-Nov. 12, 1894

Durham Miscellaneous Newspapers (Durham, NC)

Call Number: N3640
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1876-1989

Durham Morning Herald (Durham, NC)

Call Number: S5133
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1901-to date

Durham Sun (Durham, NC)

Call Number: S5133A
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: [1891-1946] - to date (earlier holdings incomplete; for detailed holdings, see N/M staff)

Durham Tobacco Plant (Durham, NC)

Call Number: N3639
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Feb. 14, 1872-Oct. 14, 1885
                     Sept. 15, 1886-Dec. 21, 1888

Hillsborough Recorder (Hillsborough, NC)

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

Morning Post (Raleigh, NC)

Call Number: S5370
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1897-1905

News and Observer (Raleigh, NC)

Call Number: S151
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Sept. 12, 1880-to date

Raleigh Register (Raleigh, NC)

Format: Microfilm

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

Call Number: N4843
Holdings: 1799-1886

Semi-Weekly Sentinel (Raleigh, NC)

Call Number: N3679
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Mar. 24, 1866-Feb. 27, 1877

Sentinel (Raleigh, NC)

Call Number: N3678
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Jan. 25, 1866-Nov. 7, 1876

Union Republican (Winston-Salem, NC)

Call Number: N4868
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: [1875-1944]

Ohio

American Israelite (Cincinnati, OH)

Call Number: S6000
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1874-?

Pennsylvania

Democrat Sentinel (Ebensburg, PA)

Call Number: N3596
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Dec. 7, 1859-Dec. 20, 1866

Erie Observer (Erie, PA)

Call Number: N3598
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1857-1866

Harrisburg Daily Telegraph (Harrisburg, PA)

Call Number: N3607
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1857-1866

Public Ledger (Philadelphia, PA)

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

Raftsman's Journal (Clearfield, PA)

Call Number: N3600
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: Jan. 25, 1860-Jun. 24, 1868

South Carolina

Charleston Daily Courier (Charleston, SC)

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

Charlottesville Chronicle (Charlottesville, SC)

Call Number: N4748
Format: Microfilm
Holdings: 1864-1901
                     1904
                     1907
                     1917

Virginia

Religious Herald (Richmond, VA)

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

 

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