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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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NY library adds more issues to digitized newspaper collection

The Cornwall Public Library (Orange County)  has added more issues to its digitized collection of The Cornwall Local newspaper. The Cornwall Local archive covers 1880 to the present day. While the years 1880-1970 are indexed through written index cards, before this new additions to the

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