State Library Contributes 23 Newspaper Titles to Chronicling America

September 23, 2010

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. [caption id="attachment_3048" align="alignright" width="221" caption="100 years ago. Seattle Star, September 24, 2010"]

100 years ago. Seattle Star, September 24, 2010

[/caption] 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.
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