The Washington State Library recently contributed another 23,000 historic newspaper pages from seven newspapers to Chronicling America, making Washington State’s contribution to the program a total of 23 titles and over 115,000 pages. Read and research issues from these and other newspapers around the U.S. for free at chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
100 years ago. Seattle Star, September 24, 2010
There are now 23 newspapers from Washington State currently included in Chronicling America:
- Cayton’s Monthly, 1921
- Cayton’s Weekly, 1917-1921
- Colfax Gazette, 1900-1912
- Colville Examiner, 1907-1922
- Commonwealth (Everett), 1911-1914
- Co-operative News, 1917-1921
- Daily Republican (Seattle), 1896
- Industrial Freedom, 1898-1901
- Islander, 1891-1898
- Leavenworth Echo, 1904-1922
- Northwest Worker, 1915-1917
- Pullman Herald, 1888-1922
- The Ranch (Yakima), 1894
- The Ranch (Seattle), 1902-1914
- Ranche and Range (Yakima), 1897-1902
- The Republican (Seattle), 1896-1898
- San Juan Islander, 1899-1914
- Seattle Republican, 1900-1913
- Seattle Star, 1899-1910
- Tacoma Times, 1903-1918
- Washington Farmer (Spokane), 1914
- Washington Socialist, 1914-1915
- Yakima Herald, 1893-1912
Chronicling America provides free and open access to nearly 2.7 million full-text searchable pages from 348 titles published between 1860 and 1922 in 22 states and the District of Columbia. The Washington State Library’s National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) grant was renewed through June 2012, allowing more pages from other newspapers around Washington State to be uploaded over the next two years.
For more information about Chronicling America, contact Laura Robinson, project manager for Washington’s National Digital Newspaper Program, at [email protected] or (360) 570-5568.
