List of newspapers microfilmed by the U.S. Newspaper Program

The United States Newspaper Program (http://www.neh.gov/projects/usnp.html) is a national project to locate, catalog, and microfilm newspapers across the country. Thanks to federal (particularly NEH) and state funding, each state set up a project center to coordinate the search for files of their state newspapers and arrange to have them cataloged and filmed. Six national institutions participated in this project including the American Antiquarian Society.

Most state projects have their own website and many of them prepared either a list of their state's newspapers or created a searchable database. Unfortunately it can be difficult to locate the web page that has these useful indexes. Below is a list of those lists or databases and links to them.

If you find a link that doesn't work or if you know of a database I missed, please send me a note at vgolden@mwa.org.

Vincent Golden

Curator of Newspapers and Periodicals

State	URL and Notes
Alabama	http://www.archives.state.al.us/newsmicro/search.cfm This is a searchable online database. It also has a form for interlibrary loan and purchase of film.
Alaska	http://www.library.state.ak.us/hist/newspaper/news.html Has 3 separate PDF files.City, title, chronology.
Arizona	http://www.lib.az.us/anp/titles.cfm Organized by county.Also notes how many reels or if the filming is still in progress.
Arkansas	Does not have a separate list.
California	http://cnp.ucr.edu/cnpsearchdb.html Searchable database.
Colorado	Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection For a general description of the Colorado historic newspaper collection, see http://www.bcr.org/cdp/projects/newspapers/index.html
Connecticut	http://www.cslib.org/newspaper/finding.htm This is an online catalog of materials in CT libraries.Once you begin, select reQuest Serials Catalog in Use Database.
Delaware	http://www2.lib.udel.edu/delnews/list.htm Organized by title
District of Columbia	Does not have a separate list.
Florida	http://web.uflib.ufl.edu./fnp/ Searchable database.Also has a nice history of Florida newspapers. http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/flnews/brief.html
Georgia	http://www.libs.uga.edu/gnp/listab.html?Search=Begin+Search%21 List organized by city then title.Some titles have relevant notes on history of particular titles.
Hawaii	Does not have a separate list. Contact special collections at Univ. of Hawaii. http://www2.hawaii.edu/~speccoll/
Idaho	http://idahohistory.net/library_collections.html#anchor566425 Organized by city.
Illinois	http://web.library.uiuc.edu/asp/inp/mergeddatabase/search_form.asp Searchable database. Also have a very nice web page on various aspects of the project. href="http://door.library.uiuc.edu/inp/"> http://door.library.uiuc.edu/inp/
Indiana	http://www.indianahistory.org/Microfilm_Catalog.asp Information about the project and forms for ordering copies of the microfilm can be found at: http://www.indianahistory.org/conservation/pid.html
Iowa	Does not have a separate list.
Kansas	http://www.kshs.org/library/news.htm Has a searchable database
Kentucky	Does not have a separate list.
Louisiana	http://lsu.louislibraries.org/uhtbin/cgisirsi/K2HCmGA2By/6190007/60/70/X Online catalog of Louisiana libraries from the LSU website. For type, make sure you select newspaper.
Maine	Does not have a separate list.
Maryland	http://speccol.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/ speccol/catalog/newspapers/cfm/index.cfm Has separate lists by chronology, title, county, plus images of select newspapers.Very well organized.
Massachusetts	http://www.bpl.org/research/microtext/news.htm Has two separate lists.Boston, and the rest of Massachusetts.
Michigan	Does not have a separate list
Minnesota	http://collections.mnhs.org/newspapers/arsearch.html Searchable database on Minnesota Historical Society site.
Mississippi	http://zed.mdah.state.ms.us/F?func=find-b-0 Separate databases by title, town, county.Also includes database of microfilm held for other states.
Missouri	Does not have a separate list.
Montana	Does not have a separate list.
Nebraska	href="http://iris.unl.edu/">http://iris.unl.edu/ Search on Univ. of Nebraska library online catalog. There is a nice history of Nebraska newspapers at http://www.unl.edu/nebnews/newshis.htm
Nevada	Does not have a separate list.
New Hampshire	Organized by title.Includes name of publisher.
New Jersey	href="http://www.njarchives.org/links/newspaper-1.html">http://www.njarchives.org/links/newspaper-1.html A table organized by county
New Mexico	Does not have a separate list.
New York	http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/nysnp/ Provides listing by county or city.Separates by film held at the New York State Library and film held in other New York institutions. Very easy to use.
North Carolina	http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/reference/newspapers/GuideMaster.pdf PDF file of newspapers by city then title.For general information on the NC newspaper project, see: http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/TSS/newspape.htm#SLNC
North Dakota	http://www.state.nd.us/hist/newshome.htm Provides a clickable map plus a table of counties with town names. For more information on ND newspaper history, see: http://www.state.nd.us/hist/infnews.htm
Ohio	http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/newspaper/home.cfm Has separate lists by title, city, and county.
Oklahoma	http://www.okhistory.org/newsdb/index.php
Oregon	http://libweb.uoregon.edu/guides/newspapers/papers.html#oregon List of newspapers by county.They have a note that they are still cataloging film and will be adding more to the lsit. Last updated April 28, 2004
Pennsylvania	Does not have a separate list. You have to search the the state online catalog. http://www.statelibrary.state.pa.us/libraries/cwp/view.asp?a=2&Q=40148
Puerto Rico	Does not have a separate database.
Rhode Island	Does not have a separate database.
South Carolina	Does not have a separate database.You have to search their online catalog. http://www.sc.edu/uscan/
South Dakota	http://www.sdhistory.org/arc/newspaper/default.asp Searchable database. Very nice home page for the project, http://www.sdhistory.org/arc/arc_npap.htm, that includes a list of lost newspapers.
Tennessee	http://www.lib.utk.edu/tnp/ Searchable database plus it has a browse feature.
Texas	http://www.cah.utexas.edu/documents/services/newspapers_fa.pdf From this site you can search the database or download a list of all Texas newspapers in PDF format.
Utah	Does not have a separate database.
Vermont	http://vtnp.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First Searchable database by several fields.General description of the Vermont can be found at http://vtnp.uvm.edu/
Virginia	http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/news/bib_data1.asp Searchable database by county or city.More useful information and indexes on Virginia newspapers can be found at http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/news/index.htm
Washington	http://www.statelib.wa.gov/catalog_county.aspx Database by county or city with a clickable map of the state.
West Virginia.	http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/wvcollection/newspapers.htm Searchable database
Wisconsin	Does not have a separate list.You have to search their general catalog. http://search.library.wisc.edu
Wyoming	http://wyonewspapers.org PDFs of newspapers by title, city, and county.

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