Free Newspaper Archives

Alaska 

New  The Tundra Times, 1962-1997 (Fairbanks).  This is an odd collection -- a combination of individual clippings and full newspapers.  Nevertheless, it is the only free newspaper archive available from Alaska.  Provided by the Tuzzy Consortium Library.

Arizona
Casa Grande Newspaper Archives, 1912-2007, courtesy of the Casa Grande Public Library, just outside of Phoenix.


California
California Digital Newspaper Collection, approx 1849-1911  A small but growing collection hosted by UC Riverside. Includes select  articles from Alta California, San Francisco Call, Amador Ledger, and the Los Angeles Herald, among others.  

New The Covina Newspaper Archives (1895-1999)  include the Covina Argus and others, from this city near LA.

New El Clamor Publico, 1855-1859 (Los Angeles).  Probably the earliest Spanish-language newspaper in CA, courtesy of the Huntington Library and USC. 

New  Whittier Historical Newspaper Collection, 1883-1923.  An odd collection that seems to download as entire newspapers, rather than individual pages or articles.  Have patience.  From the Whittier Public Library, near Los Angeles. 


Colorado

Colorado Newspaper Archives from 1859-1923.  Cowboy and mining country, at its peak.

Hawaii
Hawaii Newspaper Archives from the mid-1800's to 1920's.  It doesn't get farther west than this.  An assorted collection of Hawaiian language, full image newspapers, browseable, but not searchable.

 
Nevada
Las Vegas Age newspaper archives in Nevada, 1905-1924, with some gaps in coverage.  Searching is on keywords rather than full text.

Utah
Utah Digital Newspapers Collection, varied papers, approx 1850s-1950s

 
Washington
Washington State Newspaper Archives, approx. 1850-1890's  Numerous papers from around Washington State.

 Port Townsend Morning Leader, 1903-1910.  Select Port Towsend Leader from the digital Collections list to search just the newspaper. 

New  Walla Wallop, 1944-1946.  From the Army Air Base in Walla Walla, the official World War II base newspaper. 

Wyoming

NewThe Wyoming Newspaper Project, 1867-1930, has archives from across the state, with more additions planned.  Very nice image quality at this site. 

NewNorthwest History Database, from Washington State University, is large collection of clippings rather than full newspapers.  The collection is not well described, but focuses on the early 1900's.

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Ancestry.com is an excellent source for historical research...fee-based, but well worth it.