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The first newspaper to be published west of the Mississippi was the Missouri Gazette. Its starting issue was published on July 12, 1808, by Joseph Charless, an Irish printer. Swayed by Meriweather Lewis to leave his home in Kentucky and start a new paper for the Missouri Territory , Charless was identified by the paper's masthead as "Printer to ...
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
In 1719, the Boston Gazette was established in Boston and the first newspaper in Philadelphia, The American Weekly Mercury, was founded by Andrew Bradford. In 1736, the first newspaper in to emerge in Virginia was the Virginia Gazette, [a] founded by William Rind in Virginia. Rind was soon appointed public printer.
It’s the first time that Fall River newspapers from this era have been freely online and searchable. “It's a free site,” said Conor Murray of the library’s reference department. “There ...
Newspaper Archives, Indexes & Morgues – A list of online newspaper archives like this page, curated by the Library of Congress (includes both pay and free sources) Wikipedia:List of online newspaper archives – Note: includes newspapers that are behind a paywall and a large portion are not text-searchable
Newspaper editor in Boston; founded the first regularly published newspaper in the British colonies in America, The Boston News-Letter Mathew Carey 1760–1839 Irish-born American publisher and economist from Philadelphia, founder of The Pennsylvania Herald , with the help of Benjamin Franklin and Lafayette
Benjamin Towne published the first issue of the Post on January 24, 1775, [6] using paper borrowed from James Humphreys without expectation of payment. [7] The paper was supportive of the cause of the American Revolution, [6] and was the first to publish the United States Declaration of Independence, with it taking up the front page of the July 6, 1776 issue.
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