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More issues added to the NY State Historic Newspapers website

There have been several updates at the New York State Historic Newspapers website. The site is run by the Northern New York Library Network in partnership with the Empire State Library Network. You can search these newspapers and others at NY State Historic Newspapers. Chautauqua County: The

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Several New York prison newspapers are now digitized

The NYS Library has provided JSTOR with access to rare prison newspapers from its holdings. JSTOR has digitized those newspapers and made them freely available to the public as part of their website. Since historical prison newspapers can be obscure, so this is a chance

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Free access to U.S. digitized newspapers this weekend

To help celebrate July 4th, MyHeritage’s historical newspaper website, OldNews.com, will be available for free on July 3-5, 2025. There are 151 million pages of historical U.S. local newspapers containing birth announcements, obituaries, local gossip columns, and headlines that shaped the country. Newspapers help you

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More titles added to NYS Historic Newspapers website

New York State Historic Newspapers Project continues to add new titles. In the first third of 2025, 14 new titles and 239,841 pages were added to the database. New Titles: Chemung County: The Husbandman, Elmira 26 August 1874 – 16 January 1884 Delaware County: Delaware

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