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Historical Newspapers at Duke

The American Newspaper Repository Collection of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library (RBMSCL) at Duke University consists of approximately six thousand bound newspaper volumes and more than 11,000 unbound newspaper items, most of which came, directly or indirectly, from the British Library. Notable long runs of historical newspapers include the World, the New York Herald Tribune, the New York Times, and the Chicago Tribune. There are also runs of trade journals, Communist papers such as the Daily Worker, and foreign language and immigrant papers, including those produced by immigrants and ex-patriates from Russia and Eastern Europe. Many of these runs apparently exist nowhere else in the original format, which makes this collection into a resource of major scholarly significance. 

The following list of titles that may be of interest to students and scholars of Slavic and East European diasporas in the United States is taken from a preliminary inventory of the American Newspaper Repository Collection, 1856-2004, compiled by staff at the RBMSCL:

Advance (New York), 1921-1928 [Wrapped bundles]

Americki Hrvatski Glasnik  (New York, Chicago), 1954-1956 [Wrapped bundles]
[Translation: "American Croatian Herald" ]

Amerika  (Brooklyn, NY), 1920-1925 [Bound volumes], 1946-1951 [Wrapped bundles]

ArbeiterZeitung, Die, 1894-1902 [Bound volumes]

Byelarus  (New York), 1952-1962 [Wrapped bundles]

Czas  (Brooklyn, NY), 1951-1973 [Wrapped bundles]

Daily Worker  (New York), 1943-1954 [Bound volumes], 1944, 1954-1955 [Wrapped bundles]

Danica  (Chicago), 1960-1973 [Wrapped bundles]

Dnipro  (Chicago, Philadelphia, Trenton, NJ), 1924-1926, 1928-1942 [Wrapped bundles]

Draugas  (Chicago), 1946-1949, 1953 [Wrapped bundles]

Dziennik dla Wszystkich (Buffalo, NY), 1942, 1951-1955 [Wrapped bundles]

Dziennik dla Wszystkich (Illustrowan Wydanie) (Buffalo, NY), 1952-1954 [Wrapped bundles]

Dziennik Polski, 1947-[195?] [Wrapped bundles]

Forward  (New York), 1917, 1920-1965 [Bound volumes], 1965-1975 [Wrapped bundles]

Freie Arbeiter Stimme  (New York), 1917, 1950-1962 [Wrapped bundles]

Glos Narodu  (Jersey City), 1949-1955 [Wrapped bundles]
[Translation: "The People's Voice"]

Katolik  (Chicago), 1961-1973 [Wrapped bundles]

Katolikus Magyarok Vasarnapja  (Cleveland, Youngstown, OH), 1949-1955, 1961-1965, 1968 [Wrapped bundles]
[Translation: "Catholic Hungarian Sunday"]

Labor Action  (New York), 1942, 1946-1947, 1952-1954, 1956-1958 [Wrapped bundles]

Magyar Szabad Sag  (New Jersey), 1963-1965 [Wrapped bundles]

Magyarsag  (Pittsburgh), 1957-1965 [Wrapped bundles]

Militant, The (New York), 1942-1960, 1962, 1964, 1976 [Bound volumes], 1961, 1963-1964, 1966, 1968-1973 [Wrapped bundles]

Narodna Volya  (Scranton, PA), 1934, 1936-1939, 1948-1973 [Wrapped bundles]
[Translation: "People's Will"]

Narodne Noviny  (Pittsburgh), 1951 May-1952 June [Wrapped bundles]
[Translation: "National News"; National Slovak Society of the United States of America]

Narodne Slovo  (Pittsburgh), 1938-1939 , 1948-1964 [Wrapped bundles]
[Translation: "The National Word"; Organ of Ukranian National Aid Association of America; See also Ukrainske Narodne Slovo]

Nasa Nada  (Chicago), 1961-1962, 1964-1971, 1973 [Wrapped bundles]
[Translation: "Our Hope"]

New York American, 1916-1917 [Bound volumes]

New Yorske Listy (New York), 1945-1947 [Wrapped bundles]

Novoe Russkoe Slovo (New York), 1920-1921, 1944-1955, 1957, 1960-1968 [Wrapped bundles]
[Translation: "New Russian Word"]

Nowy Swiat (New York), 1944-1945, 1951-1954 [Wrapped bundles]

Patryota (Philadelphia), 1950-1955 [Wrapped bundles]

Polish American Journal (Scranton, PA), 1950-1955 [Wrapped bundles]

Radnicka Borba (Detroit), 1905, 1961-1964, 1966-1968 [Wrapped bundles]
[Translation: "Workers' Struggle"]

Robotnik Polski (New York), 1942-1967 [Wrapped bundles]

Russkaia Zhizn' (San Francisco), 1964-1969 [Wrapped bundles]
[Translation: "Russan Life Daily"]

Russkii Golos (New York), 1930, 1949 [Wrapped bundles]

Sloboda (Chicago), 1954-1973 [Wrapped bundles]
[Translation: "Liberty"]

Slovak v Amerike (New York, Middletown, PA), 1945-1946, 1952, 1967-1973 [Wrapped bundles]

Socialist Appeal, 1938-1941 [Bound volumes]

Svoboda (New York, Jersey City), 1920-1925 [Bound volumes], 1926-1971 [Wrapped bundles]
[Alternate title: Ukranian Daily]

Szabad Magyarsag  (New York), 1959-1962 [Wrapped bundles]

Tygodnik Polski  (New York), 1943, 1945-1947 [Wrapped bundles]

Ukrainske Narodne Slovo  (Pittsburgh), 1965-1973 [Wrapped bundles]
[See also Narodne Slovo]

Ukrainske Zhyttia  (Chicago), 1956-1973 [Wrapped bundles]
[Translation: "Ukrainian Life"]

Ukrainskyi Prometei  (Detroit), 1952-1956, 1958 [Wrapped bundles]
[Translation: "Ukrainian Prometheus"]

Vienybe  (Brooklyn, NY), 1926-1940, 1946-1954 [Wrapped bundles]

Vienybe Lietuvninku (Brooklyn, NY), 1890 [Wrapped bundles], 1891-1910, 1913-1916, 1918-1925 [Bound volumes]

Worker (New York), 1943, 1945-1955, 1959-1968 [Wrapped bundles]

Workers' Vanguard  (New York), 1974-1976, 1986-1987 [Wrapped bundles]

 

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