Preliminary Inventory of the American Newspaper Repository Collection, 1856-2004
Abstract
The American Newspaper Repository Collection dates from 1852 through 2004 and 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 include the World, the New York Herald Tribune, the New York Times, and the Chicago Tribune. There are also runs of foreign language and immigrant papers, such as the Yiddish Forward, the Irish World, the Greek Atlantis, trade journals, Communist papers such as the Daily Worker, and other political papers. Many of these runs apparently exist nowhere else in the original format.
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- American Newspaper Repository Collection, 1856-2004
- Creator
- American Newspaper Repository
- Extent
- Bound volumes: 6081 Items, Loose newspapers and bundles: 1107 Linear Feet; 11,243 Items
- Repository
- David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University
- Location
- For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
- Language
- English.
Collection Overview
The American Newspaper Repository Collection dates from 1852 through 2004 and 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 include the World, the New York Herald Tribune, the New York Times, and the Chicago Tribune. There are also runs of foreign language and immigrant papers, such as the Yiddish Forward, the Irish World, the Greek Atlantis, trade journals, Communist papers such as the Daily Worker, and other political papers. Many of these runs apparently exist nowhere else in the original format.
The Collection was processed in the order and physical condition in which it was received. The container list that follows has been organized into four groupings based on format: Bound Volumes, Loose Newspapers, Wrapped Bundles, and Volumes in Boxes, housed as such for preservation reasons. Thus, the same title may appear multiple times under the different format groupings. The container list for each grouping is sorted alphabetically by title, then chronologically. Because the collection was received with titles and dates out of order, box numbers in the container list are not consecutive; box numbers may also be repeated in cases where multiple items were housed in the same box.
American newspapers published some of the great writers and historical figures of the late nineteenth and twentieth century. The Repository's collection contains "first editions" and original copies of work by H.L. Mencken, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, E.B. White, Joseph Mitchell, James M. Cain, Zona Gale, Israel Zangwill, Alexander Woollcott, Deems Taylor, Leo Tolstoy, Walter Lippman, P.G. Wodehouse, Frances Hodgsen Burnett, Joel Chandler Harris, Ida Tarbell, Grover Cleveland, Evelyn Nesbit, Booker T. Washington, Gertrude Atherton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.G. Wells, E.F. Benson, Bram Stoker, Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilbur and Orville Wright, Alexander Graham Bell, William Jennings Bryan, Heywood Broun, Rebecca West, Don Marquis, and Robert Frost. O. Henry was a staff writer for the World; almost all of his stories were first published there, often with illustrations. Hugh Lofting's Dr. Dolittle was published in the Magazine and Story Section of the New York Tribune with Lofting's illustrations. Stephen Crane was a crime reporter for the New York Tribune; Ring Lardner was a columnist and sports reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Theodore Dreiser wrote a column called "Heard in the Corridors" for the St. Louis Globe Democrat.
Significantly, the collection contains records in their original format of landmark national and international historic events, including the American Civil War, the Dreyfus Affair (documented by a selection of clippings from various French newspapers), both World Wars, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Jr., and the U.S. moon landing, as well as more recent occurrences such as the Israeli-PLO peace agreement and the events of September 11, 2001.
The Repository is also in effect an archive of rotogravure printing. There are thousands upon thousands of photographs of minor and major historical figures--scenes of war, childhood, architecture, celebration, crime, and fashion--printed with a tonal depth that modern printing methods seldom equal. The Yiddish Forward, The New York Times, and the New York Herald Tribune are particularly rich sources of rotogravure images.
The Repository collection is also rich in other formats. The World published the first crossword puzzles, in a little insert called "Fun." There are needlepoint patterns, Easter egg transfers, a profusion of children's games and activities, and sheet music by composers such as George M. Cohan. The newspaper hired illustrators from around the world to draw scenes of New York life. At the turn of the century the paper regularly published the work of cartoonists such as Richard Felton Outcault, creator of The Yellow Kid, Charles Green Bush, George Herriman, and Fanny Cory; the twenties caricatures of Al Frueh exist here in their original published form. The full color reproductions of paintings that appeared in the New York Tribune provide a visual history of the artistic taste of the early twentieth century.
The addition (accession 2005-0038) (215 items and 69 linear feet, dated 1926-1979) comprises bound volumes and wrapped bundles of eight newspaper titles, mostly published in New York, N.Y.: AUFBAU: Nachrichtenblatt des German-Jewish Club (New York, New York, 1940-1973); Colorado Times (Denver, Co., 1941-1969); Pelley's Weekly (Asheville, N.C., 1934, 1936); Pour la Victoire! (New York, New York, 1942-1945); Sunday Worker (New York, New York, 1936-1938); Weekly People (New York, New York, 1958-1979); and United States Daily (Washington, District of Columbia, 1926-1933).
The collection also includes digital prints of comics from 1898-1916, produced for a David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library exhibit in 2005.
Administrative Information
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Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
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Use Restrictions
The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to Duke University. For more information, consult the copyright section of the Regulations and Procedures of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Contents of the Collection
[Alternate titles: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Daily Tribune]
[Alternate titles: New York Tribune, New York Daily Tribune]
[Alternate title: Street & Smith's New York Weekly]
[Alternate Titles: New York World, New York World Telegraph]
[These three titles were received mixed together, and were boxed in the order in which they were received. Some were bundled--and thus boxed--by week, in which case processors noted the year, month, and day range contained in each box. Others were bundled together in groups of multiple months, or months and multiple years. In this case, processors noted the year or year range, or, where possible, the year and month range, contained in each box. However, most boxes contain multiple years and months. Thus, a box number may appear several times in the list below, which is arranged chronologically.]
[Includes reports of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.]
[Includes reports of the U.S. moon landing.]
[Includes reports on the Vietnam War and the Nixon impeachment.]
[Note: includes items found with issues: Sadie, the Princess of Tenement Row, music supplement to the New York American, 1903 July 26, and a poster (undated) entitled La Trois-Sainte Bouteille .]
[Note: includes one photograph and a collection of political cartoons from the Florida Times-Union, 1960 found with issues.]
[Note: multiple issues of a variety of titles. Includes photographs and miscellaneous papers found with issues.]
[The New York Times loose newspapers for 2001-2004 were received in no particular order. During accessioning, processors noted the year or year range, or, where possible, the year and month range, contained in each box. However, most boxes contain multiple years or multiple years and months. Thus, a box number may appear several times in the list below, which is arranged chronologically.]
[Includes reports of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.]
[Includes reports of the U.S. moon landing.]
[Box 327 includes reports of September 11, 2001.]
[Includes reports of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.]
[Includes reports of the U.S. moon landing.]
[Includes reports of the Gulf War.]
[Includes reports of the Israeli-PLO peace agreement.]
[Bundles were boxed in the order and in the physical condition they were received, i.e., titles and dates out of order and issues wrapped in paper and tied with string. Consequently, box numbers below are not consecutive. Also, some boxes contain more than one bundle, so box numbers may be repeated below. Title, date, city of publication, and any notes (e.g., "imperfect") were taken from the outside of each bundle, and are listed below as provided. Alternate titles and English translations are listed below as available.]
[NOTE: All wrapped bundles require further processing before patron use. Contact Technical Services.]
[Alternate title: L'Adunata dei refrattari]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Missing Nov. 9, 30 ]
[Note: Missing Feb. 28, June 29, Dec. 11, 18 ]
[Note: Missing Mar. 19, Apr. 2 ]
[Note: Missing Dec. 23, 30 ]
[Note: Missing Mar. 3 ]
[Note: Missing Nov. 3, Dec. 27 ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Incomplete ]
[Note: Missing Mar. 12, Dec. 17 ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Missing Oct. 29 ]
[Note: Missing Jan. 21, Mar. 18, Aug. 5 ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect]
[Note: Imperfect]
[Note: Imperfect]
[Note: Imperfect]
[Note: Imperfect]
[Note: Imperfect]
[Note: Missing Sept. 9]
[Note: Missing June 10]
[Note: Missing Oct. 3,4]
[Note: Imperfect]
[Note: Imperfect]
[Note: Imperfect]
[Note: Imperfect]
[Translation: "American Croatian Herald" ]
[Note: Missing no. 8, 27]
[Note: Missing 1946 Aug. 16-23]
[Note: Missing 1947 Jan. 10, June 13]
[Note: Missing 1949 Feb. 4, Mar. 2, Dec. 16; 1951 Jan. 12, Mar. 23]
[Note: Missing June 28-30 ]
[Note: Missing July 1-2 ]
[Note: Missing Mar. 19-23 ]
[Note: Missing Oct. 1931 ]
[Note: Missing July 27-29 ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Missing Jan. 28-29 ]
[Note: Missing Mar. 26-30 ]
[Note: Missing May 30-31, June 1-3 ]
[Note: Missing Jan. 4-8 ]
[Note: Missing Apr. 9-13, 24-28 ]
[Note: Missing July 22-26 ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Missing Nov. 9-23, Dec. 7 ]
[Note: Missing Mar. 2-25 ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Vol. 15]
[Note: Vol. 16]
[Note: Vol. 17]
[Note: Very Imperfect ]
[Note: Missing Jan. 7, Apr. 18 ]
[Note: Missing Nov. 11, 15 ]
[Note: Missing Oct. 2-23 ]
[Note: Missing May 26 ]
[Note: Missing Jan. 12; Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Missing Apr. 1, 27 ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Missing Feb. 14, 21 ]
[Note: Missing May 28, June 2 ]
[Note: Imperfect]
[Note: Imperfect]
[Note: Imperfect]
[Note: Very Imperfect]
[Note: Very Imperfect ]
[Note: Missing May 2-8; June 2-8, 13-15, 17-19, 23 ]
[Note: Missing Aug. 8-10 ]
[Note: Missing Sept. 1, 8, 15; Oct. 4-9, 28-31 ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Very brittle]
[Note: Missing Nov. 16 ]
[Note: Missing Oct. 10 ]
[Note: Missing Apr. 22 ]
[Note: Missing Nov. 6 ]
[Note: Missing June 2, 7 ]
[Note: Missing Aug. 4-10 ]
[Note: Missing Jan. 4, Feb. 21 ]
[Note: Missing Apr. 12 ]
[Note: Missing Jan. 15, Dec. 14 ]
[Note: Missing Oct. 3, 17, 24; Dec. 5 ]
[Note: Missing Apr. 13, Aug. 7, Sept. 11, Nov. 20 ]
[Note: Missing Jan. 21; Feb. 11, 18; Mar. 18; Apr. 29; Aug. 19, 26; Sept. 30 ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Missing 1960 Dec. 1 ]
[Translation: "The People's Voice"]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[See also New York Herald Tribune (European Edition)]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Incomplete ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Alternate title: L'Italia]
[Note: Missing Dec. 5-11 ]
[Translation: "Catholic Hungarian Sunday"]
[Note: Very Imperfect ]
[Note: Missing Nov. 26 ]
[Note: Missing July 9 ]
[Note: Very Imperfect ]
[Note: Very brittle ]
[Note: Missing Oct. 3 ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Very Imperfect]
[Note: Missing Apr. 24 ]
[Note: Missing Jan. 14; Aug. 26; July 1,8,15; Dec. 15, 22 ]
[Note: Missing Jan. 17 ]
[Translation: "People's Will"]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Missing Mar. 15-20; Apr. 5, 18, 19 ]
[Translation: "National News"; National Slovak Society of the United States of America]
[Translation: "The National Word"; Organ of Ukranian National Aid Association of America; See also Ukrainske Narodne Slovo]
[Note: Imperfect]
[Note: Missing Nov. 20, 1952 ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Translation: "Our Hope"]
[Note: Missing 1939 Aug. ]
[Note: Missing Jan. 2; Apr. 3 ]
[Note: Missing July 14, 31; Aug. 14, 25 ]
[Note: Missing July 29; Aug. 12, 26 ]
[Note: Missing Jan. 13 ]
[Note: Missing Aug. 9, 16 ]
[Note: Missing May 23; June 6, 13, 20 ]
[Note: Missing July 25; Sept. 5, 12; Oct. 3, 24, 31; Nov. 21; Dec. 5, 26 ]
[Note: Missing Feb. 20; Mar. 27; Apr. 17, 24; Dec. 11 ]
[Note: Missing Jan. 8, 15 ]
[Note: Missing Aug. 5 ]
[Note: Missing Oct. 6, 20; Nov. 3, 17; Dec. 8 ]
[Note: Missing Jan. 19 ]
[Note: Missing Nov. 2 ]
[Note: Missing Feb. 22 ]
[Note: Missing Nov. 1 ]
[Note: Missing Dec. 3 ]
[Note: Missing Feb. 11; Mar. 4 ]
[Note: Missing Feb. 9, 16, 23; Apr. 26 ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Missing July 14, Feb. 28, Mar., Dec. 28 ]
[Note: Missing July 16, 23; Dec. 17 ]
[Alternate titles: New York Herald, New York Tribune]
[See also International Herald Tribune]
[Note: Missing Nov. 10-11 ]
[Note: Missing June 17-25 ]
[Note: Missing Feb. 4, 5 ]
[Note: Missing Sept. 7 ]
[Note: Missing Jan. 23 ]
[Note: Missing June 1 ]
[Note: Missing Aug. 28 ]
[Note: Not published Nov. 30-Dec. 8 ]
[Note: Missing July 2 ]
[Note: Missing July 13-15 ]
[Note: Missing Feb. 15 ]
[Note: Missing May 21 ]
Note: Missing Nov. 27, 31; Dec. 1-4, 12-14
Note: Imperfect
[Translation: "New Russian Word"]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Badly damaged ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
Note: Imperfect
Note: Imperfect
Note: Imperfect
[Translation: "Workers' Struggle"]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Translation: "Russan Life Daily"]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
Note: Imperfect
Note: Imperfect
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Missing July 19, Aug. 23-30 ]
[Translation: "Liberty"]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Missing #210-213 ]
[Note: Missing #210-213 ]
[Note: Missing no. 264, 270 ]
[Note: Missing no. 436, 439, 442, 447 ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Alternate title: Ukranian Daily]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Missing Mar. 24, 25 ]
[Note: Missing July 1 ]
[Note: Missing Feb. 17-24 ]
[Note: Missing Jan. 5, 7, 8 ]
[Note: Missing June 14, 18 ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Missing Oct. ]
[See also Narodne Slovo]
[Note: Imperfect]
[Note: Missing Feb. 1, no.3]
[Translation: "Ukrainian Life"]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Translation: "Ukrainian Prometheus"]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Missing Sept. 10 ]
[Note: Missing Jan.-Feb. 25, July 22 ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Missing 1953 Apr. 15 ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: Imperfect ]
[Note: This series contains volumes that have been housed in boxes for preservation reasons. Many of these volumes have water damage, mildew, red rot, are missing covers, exceptionally brittle, or are otherwise extremely fragile. Depending on the level of damage, some volumes require preservation attention before patron use and have been marked as such in the container list below.]
[The volumes were boxed in the order they were received. Consequently, box numbers below are not consecutive.]
[Alternate title: L'Aurore. Part of a collection of French newspapers and newspaper clippings documenting the Dreyfus Affair.]
[Alternate title: L'Autorité. Part of a collection of French newspapers and newspaper clippings documenting the Dreyfus Affair.]
[Alternate titles: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Daily Tribune]
[Alternate title: L'Auclair. Part of a collection of French newspapers and newspaper clippings documenting the Dreyfus Affair.]
[Note: Portfolio label says St. Louis Post-Dispatch.]
[Part of a collection of French newspapers and newspaper clippings documenting the Dreyfus Affair.]
[Alternate title: L'Indépendence. Part of a collection of French newspapers and newspaper clippings documenting the Dreyfus Affair.]
[Alternate title: L'Intransigeant. Part of a collection of French newspapers and newspaper clippings documenting the Dreyfus Affair.]
[Note: There are duplicate copies of many volumes. Also, virtually all of the Iron Age volumes have red rot. Patrons are urged to wear gloves and a lab coat while using these volumes.]
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[Alternate title: La Libre Parole. Part of a collection of French newspapers and newspaper clippings documenting the Dreyfus Affair.]
[Alternate title: La Libre Patrie. Part of a collection of French newspapers and newspaper clippings documenting the Dreyfus Affair.]
[Alternate title: Le Matin. Part of a collection of French newspapers and newspaper clippings documenting the Dreyfus Affair.]
[Alternate titles: New York Tribune, New York Daily Tribune.]
[Note: Portfolio cover says New York Times]
[Alternate title: La Patrie. Part of a collection of French newspapers and newspaper clippings documenting the Dreyfus Affair.]
[Note: Includes Index to vol. VIII]
[Note: Includes Index to vol. XIII]
[Alternate title: Le Temps. Part of a collection of French newspapers and newspaper clippings documenting the Dreyfus Affair.]
[Alternate titles: New York World, New York World Telegraph]
Produced for a Rubenstein Library exhibit in 2005 and drawn from The World,the Sunday Chicago Tribune, and New York American.
Selected from the scans in the Electronic Format subseries.
The description of each print below includes the name of the comic, the comic supplement page, the name and date of the newspaper in which the comic appeared, the American Newspaper Repository volume number, and the disk number on which the print can be found. Arranged chronologically.
The addition (accession 2005-0038) (215 items and 69 linear feet, dated 1926-1979) comprises bound volumes and wrapped bundles of eight newspaper titles, mostly published in New York, N.Y.: AUFBAU: Nachrichtenblatt des German-Jewish Club (New York, New York, 1940-1973); Colorado Times (Denver, Co., 1941-1969); Pelley's Weekly (Asheville, N.C., 1934, 1936); Pour la Victoire! (New York, New York, 1942-1945); Sunday Worker (New York, New York, 1936-1938); Weekly People (New York, New York, 1958-1979); and United States Daily (Washington, District of Columbia, 1926-1933).
[Bundles were boxed in the order and in the physical condition they were received, i.e., titles and dates out of order and issues wrapped in paper and tied with string. Consequently, box numbers below are not consecutive. Also, some boxes contain more than one bundle, so box numbers may be repeated below. Title, date, city of publication, and any notes were taken from the outside of each bundle, and are listed below as provided. Alternate titles and English translations are listed below as available.]
[NOTE: All wrapped bundles require further processing before patron use. Contact Technical Services.]
Historical Note
The American Newspaper Repository was founded in 1999 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation in order to save a unique collection of original newspapers that would otherwise have been destroyed or dispersed, and to preserve and make available these landmarks of American publishing. Nicholson Baker, author of numerous fiction and nonfiction works, including writings on libraries, founded and served as director of the Repository in conjunction with research for his 2001 release, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper.
Subject Headings
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], American Newspaper Repository Collection, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
Provenance
The American Newspaper Repository Collection was received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a gift in 2004.
Processing Information
Processed by Rubenstein Library staff
Additions minimally processed by Christian Ferney
Completed April 6, 2004
Updated by Jill Katte, October 2006
Encoded by Elizabeth Arnold, Ruth E. Bryan, Christian Ferney
Descriptive sources and standards used to create this preliminary inventory: DACS, EAD, NCEAD guidelines, and our local Style Guide.
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
This collection is unprocessed: materials may have not been ordered and described beyond their original condition.
