Newspapers & Periodicals - Historic

Digitized Newspapers

Georgia Historic Newspapers
The goal of the Georgia Historic Newspapers database is to convert every Georgia newspaper to digital format and to make this resource available free of charge as a searchable text database in GALILEO via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software and transcription.

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers Sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), this site allows you to search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.

Regional Newspapers on microfilm

Colored Tribune

Oct 23, 1886 - Dec 15, 1888

Columbia Museum & Savannah Advertiser

1796 - 1819 (scattered issues)

Early Miscellaneous Newspapers of South Carolina

January, 1732 - December, 1864

Georgia Gazette

1763 - 1770

The Georgia Gazette and Journal Record

January 1, 1979 - April 2, 1979

Georgia Republican & State Intelligencer

August 21, 1802 - September, 1808

The Herald

September 16, 1948 - December, 1988

The Republican & Savannah Evening Ledger

October 1, 1808 - December, 1815

Savannah Daily Republican

November 6, 1820 - December 30, 1820 (scattered issues)

Savannah Morning News

July, 1868 - December, 1943

January, 1956 - December, 1999

          Savannah Morning News Obituary Index

Indexing the 1920's and 1987-1996 (89-90 are incomplete)

Savannah Republican

June, 1816 - February, 1855

February, 1859 - October 7, 1865

Savannah Tribune

October 22, 1886 - December 15, 1888

October, 1943 - September, 1960

Savannah National Republican

July, 1865 - December, 1865

Savannah Press

November 19, 1891 - September 6, 1900

Other Newspapers on Microfilm

New York Times

1854 to the present

Richmond Enquirer (Richmond, Va. : 1815)

1860-1867

Southern Workman (Hampton, Va.)

v. 1, 1872 - v. 68, 1939

The Times (London)

1785 - 1922

The Nation (Dublin, Ireland : 1842)

1845-1847

1864-1865

The United Irishman (Dublin)

1848

The Irish Felon (successor to the United Irishman)

1848

The United Irishman (Liverpool, England)

1876-1877

Early Periodical Collections on Microfilm

Early British Periodicals

Title Descriptions

Early British Periodicals (EBP) is a collection of 169 magazines, published primarily in the 18th and 19th centuries, concerning literature, history, science, fine arts, and social science. It was produced on 902 reels of microfilm in three series: EBP I, EBP II, and EBP III. Lane Library owns EBP I (Reels 1-421) and a portion of EBP II (Reels 422-474). Most of these approximately 116 titles are listed in Lane Library's Journal Locator. To retrieve them, search for (EBP).

American Periodicals, 18th Century (APS I)

American Periodicals, 18th Century is the first in a three part collection created at the University of Michigan to make rare, historic magazines and journals available to libraries. The full collection, American Periodicals, 1741-1900, contains more than 1100 periodicals. Lane Library owns APS I which contains 88 periodicals on 33 reels of microfilm.

Title Descriptions

Periodicals in the Library of American Civilization

Lane Library owns the full Library of American Civilization (LAC) collection which is accessed by an Author Catalog, Title Catalog, and Subject Catalog. The approximately 60 periodicals in this Collection are listed in Lane Library's Journal Locator. To retrieve them, search for (LAC)

[text from Guide] "The Library of American Civilization is a collection of materials on microfiche relating to all aspects of American life and literature from their beginnings to the outbreak of World War I. Included in the library are pamphlets, periodicals, documents, biographies and autobiographies, fictional works, poetry, collections of various kinds, materials of foreign origin relating to America, and many rare books not generaly available."