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History - Historical U.S. Newspapers Online: W

A guide to historical U.S. newspapers that are freely available on the Internet.

Washington Newspapers

Allyn Times 1889-1891
Arlington Times 1945, 1954-1962, 1975, 1882, 1994, 2002-2009
Boomerang 2005-2009 (Palouse)
Bossburg Herald 1910
Chehalis Bee 1897-1898
Chehalis Bee-Nugget 1899-1938
Cheney Free Press 1971, 1985, 1994-2009
Chronicling America: Washington Newspapers
Coolee City News 1946-1947
Deer Park Union 1932-1956
This file includes scattered issues and some years are missing.
Douglas County Farmer 1935-1937 (Spokane)
Eatonville Dispatch 1970-1972, 1980
Echo 1868-1877 (Olympia)
A temperance newspaper
Edmonds Beacon 2005-2009 (Mukilteo)
Ellensburg Capital 1888-1953
Ellensburg Daily Record 1854-2005
Ellensburg Daily Record 1909-2005
Ellensburg Dawn 1894-1913
Ellensburg Democrat 1914-1915
Ellensburg Localizer 1890-1900
Entiat Times 1937-1938
Evening Localizer 1908-1909 (Ellensburg)
Everett Times 1893-1894
Garfield Enterprise 1926-1938
Goldendale Sentinel 2006-2009
Heald Reporter 1951-1977, 2004-2007 (Brewster)
Some years are missing.
Historical Newspapers in Washington 1852-1892
Issaquah Press 1918-1923, 1931-1932, 1939, 1963, 1972, 1990, 2005-2007
Kimble Northwest History Database (19th and early 20th centuries)
A database that includes 80,000 newspaper clippings from the Pacific Northwest. These clippings were collected in the late 1930's as a WPA project.
Morning Leader 1903-1912 (Port Townsend)
Port Townsend Leader 1903-1912
Seattle Times 1990-
Spokane Daily Chronicle 1884-1930
Spokesman-Review 1893-2007 (Spokane)
Tribune 1985-1988, 2005-2009 (Deer Park)
UW Student Newspaper Archive 1967-2005
Student newspaper of the University of Washington

West Virginia

Braxton Citizens' News 2005-2009
Brooke County Review 1994-2009 (Wellsburg)
Chronicling America: West Virginia Newspapers
Farmers Advocate 1936-1948 (Charles Town)
Glenville Democrat 1978-2009
There are many missing years.
Grant County Press 1944, 1950, 1960, 1970, 1979-1980, 2003-2009 (Petersburg)
Hinton News 2004-2009
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This file also includes issues of the Monon News (IN) for 1945-1986, with some years missing.

Wisconsin Newspapers

Blair Press 1921-2009
Civil War Newspaper Articles, 1860-1865
Selected articles from various Wisconsin newspapers
Door County Library Newspaper Archive, 1862-1925
Waukesha Freeman Newspaper Archives 1846-2007
Wisconsin Labor Advocate 1886-1887
Labor movement newspaper
Wisconsin Local History and Biography Articles 1836-1948
Searchable database of newspaper clippings

Wyoming Newspapers

Basin Republican Rustler 2006-2009
Crook County News 1936-1941 (Hulett)
Greybull Standard 2006-2008
High Plains Sentinel 2006-2009 (Wright)
Wyoming Newspapers
Currently includes over 330 historic Wyoming newspapers and close to 800,000 pages, the earliest is the Chugg Water Journal from 1849.