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Washington Newspapers
ACollection: Chronicling America: Washington Newspapers
ACollection: Clark County Historical Museum Newspapers Archive 1876-
ACollection: Historical Newspapers in Washington 1852-1892
ACollection: Kimble Northwest History Database (19th and early 20th centuries)
A database that includes 80,000 newspaper clippings from the Pacific Northwest. These clippings were collected in the late 1930's as a WPA project.
ACollection: Newspapers at the Washington State Library
Links to web sites
ACollection: UW Student Newspapers Archive 1891-present
Student newspapers from various campuses of the University of Washington
ACollection: Washington State Library's Select Index to Newspapers 1993-2009
This is only an index and does not include the full text of articles. It covers the Olympian and other regional newspapers.
Allyn: Allyn Times 1889-1891
Anacortes: Northwest Enterprise 1882-1884, 1886
Arlington: Arlington Times 1945, 1954-1962, 1975, 1882, 1994, 2002-2009
Bellingham: Journal-Progressive 1915
Bingen: Mt. Adams Sun 1937-1953, 1961-1966
Bossburg: Bossburg Herald 1910
Bothell: Bothell Sentinel and Citizen 1908-1939
Brewster: Herald Reporter 1951-1977, 2004-2007
Some years are missing.
Brewster: Quad-City Herald 1951, 1953, 1955, 1959-1960, 1963-1965, 197, 1978-1986, 2001-200
Cathlamet: Wahkiakum County Eagle 1964-1967, 2004-2005, 2009-
Cathlamet: Wahkiakum County Eagle 2006-2009
Chehalis: Chehalis Bee-Nugget 1899-1938
Chehalis: Chehalis Bee 1897-1898
Cheney: Cheney Free Press 1953, 1955, 1962, 1964-1965, 1971-1972, 1977-1978, 1982, 1985, 1996, 2001, 2009-
Cheney: Cheney Free Press 1971, 1985, 1994-2009
Clarkston: Sunday Tribune 1984-1989
This newspaper was published in Lewiston, ID and Clarkston, WA.
Coolee City: Coolee City News 1946-1947
Coulee City: News & Standard 2005-2009
Coulee City: News and Standard 1983, 1992-1999, 2008-
Deer Park: Deer Park Tribune 1996-1999, 2008-
Deer Park: Deer Park Union 1932-1956
This file includes scattered issues and some years are missing.
Deer Park: Deer Park Union 1939, 1952
Deer Park: Tri-County Tribune 1955-1956, 1969, 1974, 1984, 1988, 1990, 1992, 2005-2008
Deer Park: Tri-County Tribune 1957, 1973, 1987
Deer Park: Tribune 1985-1988, 2005-2009
Deer Park: Tribune 1990, 1993
Eatonville: Dispatch 19770-1972, 1980, 1984-1985, 2008-
Eatonville: Eatonville Dispatch 1970-1972, 1980
Ellensburg: Ellensburg Daily Record 1854-2005
Ellensburg: Ellensburg Daily Record 1909-2005
Ellensburg: Ellensburg Dawn 1894-1913
Ellensburg: Ellensburg Democrat 1914-1915
Ellensburg: Ellensburgh Capital 1888-1953
Note: Ellensburg was first called Ellensburgh
Ellensburg: Ellensburgh Localizer 1890-1900
Note: Ellensburg was first called Ellensburgh
Ellensburg: Evening Localizer 1908-1909
Ellensburg: Kittitas Localizer 1889-1890
Entiat: Entiat Times 1937-1938
Everett: Everett Times 1893-1894
Garfield: Garfield Enterprise 1926-1938
Goldendale: Goldendale Sentinel 1918, 1925, 1928, 1935, 1938, 1945, 1948, 1958, 1965, 1972, 2003-2004, 2009-
Goldendale: Goldendale Sentinel 2006-2009
Grand Coulee: Star 1946-1950, 1957-1960, 2002-2004, 2008-
Home: Agitator 1910-1912
Union newspaper.
Issaquah: Issaquah Press 1908-1911, 1920-1921, 1927-1928, 1930-1934, 1941, 1952, 1961-1962, 1970-1971, 1979-1989, 2003-
Issaquah: Issaquah Press 1918-1923, 1931-1932, 1939, 1963, 1972, 1990, 2005-2007
Kettle Falls: Scimitar 1911-1912
Loon Lake: Loon Lake Times 1911-1912
Marcus: Marcus Messenger 1912
There are only a few available issues.
Marysville: Marysville Globe 1956-1957, 1960, 1974-1975, 1982, 2005-2009
Marysville: Marysville Globe 1959, 1962, 2008-2010
Mattawa: Mattawa Area News 2005-2009
Molson: Molson Leader 1920
Mt. Adams: Mt. Adams Sun 1937-1944, 1961, 1963-1968
Mukilteo: Edmonds Beacon 2005-2009
Mukilteo: Mukilteo Beacon 1992-1998, 2008-
Mukilteo: Mukilteo Beacon 2001-2008
Neppel: Neppel Record 1912-1917
Neppel: Pacific Farm Record and Nepel Record 1912-1913, 1915-1916
This file includes issues of both the Pacific Farm Record and the Neppel Record, both published in Neppel, WA.
Newcastle: Newcastle News 1999-2004, 2006-2009
Olympia: Echo 1868-1877
A temperance newspaper
Olympia: North-Western Farmer 1869
Olympia: Olympia Weekly Capital 1903-1905
Olympia: Pioneer and Democrat 1855-1861
Olympia: Puget Sound Daily Courier 1872-1874, 1877
Olympia: Puget Sound Weeklly Courier 1878-1880
Olympia: Washington Democrat 1864-1865
Orient: Kettle River Journal 1907-1913
Oroville: Oroville Gazette 1927
Othello: Othello Outlook 1951, 1962, 1975, 1992, 1995-
Othello: Othello Outlook 1952-1953, 1961, 1963-1964, 1974, 1976, 1993, 2005-2008
Palouse: Boomerang 2005-2009
Palouse: Palouse Republic 1929, 1935, 1965-1969, 1971-1974, 1976-1977
Palouse: Palouse Republic 1962-1963, 1969
Pleasant Beach: Bainbridge Review 1941-1945
A newspaper known for its criticism of the U.S. government interning Japanese Americans during WWII
Pomeroy: Pomeroy Republican 1882-1884
Port Angeles: Democrat 1892-1893
This file is title The True Democrat and includes issues of that newspaper published in Jolliet, IL 1859-1862.
Port Blakely, Rolling Ray, and Winslow: Bainsbridge Review 1941-1945
Port Townsend: Morning Leader 1889-1890
Port Townsend: Morning Leader 1903-1912
Port Townsend: North-West 1860-1862
Port Townsend: Port Townsend Leader 1903-1921
Pullman: Moscow-Pullman Daily News 1986-2009
Pullman: Weekend Daily News 1997
This newspaper is published in Pulllman, WA and Moscow, ID.
Quiincy: Quincy Valley Post-Register 1963-1967, 1978, 1987-1989, 1999-2001, 2009-
Quincy: Quincy Valley Post-Register 2005-2009
Raymond: Raymond Review 1913-1914
This file includes only a few issues.
Ritzville: Ritzville Adams County Journal 1960, 2003-2004, 2009-
Ritzville: Ritzville Adams County Journal 2003-2009
Ritzville: Ritzville Journal-Times 1945, 1950
Rolling Bay: Bainsbridge Review 1941-1946
Royal City: Royal Banner 19891, 1983, 1985-1986
Royal City: Royal Review 1985-1989
Royal City: Royal Review 2000, 2002-2003
Royal City: South County Sun 2003, 2005-2009
Sammamish: Sammamish Review 1992-2004, 2006-2009
Seattle: Jewish Transcript 1924-1975, 1986
Some years are missing
Seattle: Post-Intelligencer 1920
Seattle: SDS News 1967-1968
Underground newspaper
Seattle: Seattle Post-Intelligencer 1926
Seattle: Seattle Times 1900-1902
Seattle: Sentinel 2003-2008
Student newspaper from South Seattle Community College
Seattle: South Seattle Community College 1974-1978, 1980-1985
This is a file of The Sentinel, the newspaper of the South Seattle Community College.
Seattle: South Seattle Sentinel 1985-2003
Student newspaper of South Seattle Community College
Seattle: Watcher on the Tower (1920's)
Ku Klux Klan newspaper
This site includes only a few articles and images from the newspaper, plus an essay about the newspaper.
Seattle: West Seattle Herald 1923, 1926-1927, 1930, 1939, 1941-1942, 1950, 1952, 1962, 1969, 1996-1997, 2000, 2008-
Seattle: West Seattle Herald 1931, 1934, 1936, 1938, 1940, 1943, 1945-1947, 2005-2009
Shelton: Shelton-Mason County Journal 1920-1921, 1939, 1946-1949, 1959, 1962-1969, 1976, 1978, 1999, 2007-
Shelton: Shelton-Mason County Journal 1969, 1999, 22003-2004, 2006-2009
Shelton: Shelton Sentinel 1892
Shelton: Shelton Weekly Tribune 1894-1895
Spokane: Douglas County Farmer 1935-1937
Spokane: Industrial Worker 1909-1913
Published by the Industrial Workers of the World.
Preceded by the Industrial Union Bulletin, published in Chicago, Illinois.
Spokane: Spokane Chronicle 1882-1992
Spokane: Spokane Daily Chronicle 1884, 1891-1982
Spokane: Spokane Review 1891-1894 & Spokesman-Review 1989, 1994
Spokane: Spokane Weekly Review 1892-1894
Spokane: Spokesman-Review 1889, 1893-2007
Spokane: Spokesman-Review 1893-2007
Spokane: Spokesman Review Semi-Weekly 1904
Spokane: Weekly Spokesman-Review 1895-1896
Spokane Falls: Morning Review 1885-1889
Spokane Falls: Spokane Falls Daily Chronicle 1890
Spokane Falls: Spokane Falls Review 1883-1891
Spokane Falls: Spokane Falls Weekly Review 1891
Tacoma: Weekly Ledger 1893
Tacoma: West Coast Trade 1901
Walla Walla Army Airbase: Walla Wallop 1944-1946
Newspaper published at the Walla Walla Army Airbase during World War II
Wenatchee: Republic 1905-1906
This file also includes issues of the Republican (Caper Girardeau, MO) published in 1909-1910.
Withrow: Withrow Banner 1913-1923
Woodinville: Woodinville Weekly 1977, 1981, 1985, 1989, 2008-
Woodinville: Woodinville Weekly 2005-2009
West Virginia
ACollection: Chronicling America: West Virginia Newspapers
Berkeley Springs: Morgan Messenger 1980, 2004-2009
Braxton: Braxton Citizens' News 2005-2009
Charles Town: Farmers Advocate 1921-1922, 1925-1928
Charles Town: Farmers Advocate 1936-1948
Charles Town: Spirit of Jefferson 1936-1943
Charles Town: Spirit of Jefferson Advocate 1949-1953, 1975, 1979, 2001
This file is titled Lyon County Reporter, but includes issues of at least 6 newspapers from various states.
Charles Town: Spirit of Jefferson Farmer's Advocate 1949-1953, 1963, 1965, 1968-1970, 1974-1976, 1978-1979, 1982-1985, 1998-2002, 2005-2008
Charles Town: Spirit of Jefferson Farmers Advocate 1970-1974, 1977-1978, 1980-1982, 1988-1990, 2006, 2009-
Charles Town: Spirit of Jefferson Farmer's Advocate 2005-2008
This file is mis-titled Spirit of Thanksgiving.
Elizabeth: Wirt County Journal 2006-2009
Glenville: Glenville Democrat 1975-1980, 1991, 2003, 2009-
Glenville: Glenville Democrat 1978-2009
There are many missing years.
Hinton: Hinton News 1979-1982, 1991-2003, 2008-
Hinton: Hinton News 2004-2009
This file also includes issues of the Monon News (IN) for 1945-1986, with some years missing.
Kingwood: Preston County Journal 2000-2005, 2008-
Kingwood: Preston County Journal 2005-2009
Lewisburg: Mountain Messenger 1988-1993, 2009-
Lewisburg: Mountain Messenger 2005-2009
Marlinton: Pocahontas Times 1976-1977, 1979, 1982, 1988, 1991, 1993-1994, 2000, 2003, 2009-
Marlinton: Pocahontas Times 2005-2009
Pennsboro: Pennsboro News 1979-1980, 1982-1984, 2006-2009
Petersburg: Grant County Press 1944, 1950, 1960, 1970, 1979-1980, 2003-2009
Point Pleasant: Point Pleasant Register 1986-1997, 1999-2002, 2004
Spencer: Roane County Reporter 1925, 2003-2004
Spencer: Roane County Reporter 1930, 2001, 2005-2008
Spencer: Times Record 1940, 2001-2002, 2005-2008
St. Marys: Pleasants County Leader 1960-1961, 1965, 1970, 1975, 2011, 2015
St. Mary's: Pleasants County Leader 2006-2008
St. Mary's: Pleasants Leader County 2006-2008
St. Marys: St. Marys Oracle 1952, 1955, 1957, 1962, 1965, 1967, 1972, 1975, 1982, 1985, 2005-2009
St. Marys: St. Marys Oracle 1967, 1972, 1982, 2008-
Wellsburg: Brooke County Review 1994-2009
Wellsburg: Brooke County Review 1996, 1998, 2000-2003, 2009-
Williamson: Williamson Daily News 1948-2000
Wisconsin Newspapers
ACollection: Chronicling America: Wisconsin Newspapers
ACollection: Civil War Newspaper Articles, 1860-1865
Selected articles from various Wisconsin newspapers
ACollection: Digital Archives of the Kilbourn Public Library 1856-2013
Newspapers published in Kilbourn and Kenosha
ACollection: Door County Newspaper Archive 1862-1959
ACollection: Oconto County Newspapers 1859-1925
ACollection: Wisconsin Local History and Biography Articles 1836-1948
This collection of newspaper clippings is searchable as part of the site-wide search available on this website.
ACollection: Wisconsin Name Index 1870-1970
An index to names in many newspapers, books, and other sources. This doesn't include the full text of the article.
Algoma: Algome Public Library Newspaper Archives 1873-1960
Beloit: The Stumbllingstone 1868-?
An evangelical newspaper started by Lyman Huggins Johnson in Beloit, Wisconsin that later moved to Toledo, Ohio. It may have then moved to Boston, Massachusetts and been published as recently as 1917.
Blair: Blair Press 1921-2009
Chippewa Falls: Digital Archives of the Chippewa Falls Public Library 1867-1901
Eau Claire: Roach 1968-1969
Underground newspaper
La Crosse: Leaping La Crosse News 1979-2007
A newspaper/newsletter for the lesbian community in La Crosse
La Crosse: Racquet 1910 - present
Student newspaper from the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
La Crosse: Wisconsin Labor Advocate 1886-1887
African American newspaper. Labor movement newspaper
Madison: Digital Archives of the Capital Times and the Wisconsin State Journal 1852-2014
Madison: Wisconsin Farmer 1850-1854, 1858-1860, 1863-1866
Menomonie: Digital Archives of the Menomonie Public Library 1862-1904, 1940-1965
Milwaukee: GPU News 1971-1981
Weekly news magazine of the Gay Peoples Union
Milwaukee: Kaleidoscope 1967-1971
Underground newspaper
Rice Lake: Digital Archives of the Rice Lake Public Library 1874-1922
Sturgeon Bay: Door County Library Newspaper Archive, 1862-1925
Whitewater: Digital Archives of Irvin L. Young Memorial Library 1855-2013
Wyoming Newspapers
ACollection: Wyoming Newspapers 1849, 1867-1970
Basin: Basin Republican Rustler 2006-2009
Greybull: Greybull Standard 2006-2008
Heart Mountain Relocation Center: Heart Mountain Sentinel 1942-1945
Newspaper published by Japanese Americans who were interned at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center during World War II
Hulett: Crook County News 1936-1941
Laramie: Branding Iron and Wyoming Student 1913-1986
Student newspapers of the University of Wyoming
Lovell: Lovell Chronicle 2006-2009
Newcastle: News Letter Journal 1934-1935, 1938, 1945, 1947, 1956, 2001, 2009-
Rock Springs: Vita Nuova 1908-1909
Italian language newspaper
Sundance: Sundance Times 1926, 1947-1948, 1951, 1957, 1960, 1966-1967, 1970, 1976-1977, 1979-1980, 1986-1987, 1989, 1996-1997, 1999, 2001, 2006-2009
Sundance: Sundance Times 1946, 1954-1955, 1965, 1975, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2009-
Upton: Weston County Gazette 1936, 1945, 1955, 2003-2004, 2006-2009
Upton: Weston County Gazette 1936, 1945, 1955, 2003-2004, 2009-
Wright: High Plains Sentinel 2006-2009
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