Selected newspaper pages and issues, with scans and available transcriptions. Read a surviving document in its original form, alongside its date, place and source record.
These years mark the earliest and latest documents held here. Coverage between them is incomplete. Each record identifies whether it holds an issue, a single page, a title page or a bound volume.
Johann Carolus began printing the Strasbourg Relation around 1605. It is commonly recognized as the first regularly printed newspaper. This collection holds its surviving 1609 title page, whose source records the year without an exact day.
Earlier handwritten reports and occasional news sheets make the history broader than a single invention date. Swiss Historical Lexicon: the Strasbourg Relation ↗
3 records, ordered by publication date
Year-only records appear in the year filterTitle page · Strasbourg · German
This record is the surviving 1609 title page. The newspaper began around 1605; the day of this title page is not supplied by the source.
Read this recordIssue · Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony · English
The only published issue. Three printed pages are supplied; the fourth page was blank.
Read this recordNewspaper page · Topeka, Kansas · English
The front page of a ten-page Home Edition. This record contains one page; the other nine pages are not included.
Read this recordTry another year or a newspaper title. Year-only records do not appear in an exact-date search. A missing issue here does not mean the newspaper never published that day.
See the whole collectionA selected 1609 title page and the three printed pages of Publick Occurrences, September 25, 1690. Source dates, reuse evidence and validated transcription revisions are checked.
Source available at the last checkThe verified front page of The Topeka State Journal, December 10, 1919, with its scan and OCR. The other nine pages are not supplied.
Source available at the last checkBounded discovery and reviewed-item imports. A catalog search result alone is not sufficient to import a newspaper or establish reuse rights.
Imports paused; saved issues remain availableThe Library of Congress’s Directory of U.S. Newspapers in American Libraries describes titles and library holdings from 1690 onward. A record may point to a paper copy or microfilm at a library. It does not necessarily contain a scan or readable text.
Read the holdings directory’s scope ↗Material held only offline needs access to the physical copy, permission where required, and scanning before it can join an online collection.
A historical newspaper records what its publisher printed at the time. It is a source document, and its claims may need comparison with other evidence. Transcriptions can misread names, figures and columns; check the page image before quoting.
