Historic newspapers · Arkansas

Arkansas historic newspapers: 72,072 free digitised pages

Name: Arkansas historic newspapers (Chronicling America)
Creator: Library of Congress
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Everything below is what the Library of Congress holds online for Arkansas in Chronicling America, counted on 2026-10-06. The pages are free to read and searchable by name; an obituary or a marriage notice here is often the only record of a date before civil registration.

Titles with the most digitised pages

Newspaper	Years	Pages online
Pine Bluff Daily Graphic (Pine Bluff, Ark.)	1893–1942	8,027
The Prescott Daily News (Prescott, Ark.)	1907–1941	3,866
The Log Cabin Democrat (Conway, Ark.)		2,765
Arkansas Echo (Little Rock, Ark.)	1891–1932	2,097
Batesville Daily Guard (Batesville, Ark.)	1912–1924	2,092
Newport Daily Independent (Newport, Ark.)	1901–1929	1,987
The Daily Texarkanian (Texarkana, Ark.)	1894–1906	1,936
The Osceola Times (Osceola, Ark.)		1,684
The Sentinel=record (Hot Springs, Ark.)		1,574
Sharp County Record (Evening Shade, Ark.)	1877–1976	1,527

Counties

Pulaski 10,712 pages
Jefferson 8,496 pages
Nevada 5,544 pages
Independence 5,033 pages
Faulkner 3,357 pages
Miller 2,402 pages
Mississippi 2,391 pages
Jackson 2,151 pages
Bowie 1,936 pages
Saint Francis 1,834 pages

Cities

Little Rock 10,712 pages
Pine Bluff 8,496 pages
Prescott 5,544 pages
Batesville 3,991 pages
Conway 3,357 pages
Texarkana 2,402 pages
Newport 2,151 pages
Forrest City 1,834 pages
Van Buren 1,756 pages
Osceola 1,684 pages

By decade

1730 to 1739 4 pages
1740 to 1749 4 pages
1750 to 1759 4 pages
1760 to 1769 4 pages
1770 to 1779 4 pages
1780 to 1789 4 pages
1790 to 1799 4 pages
1800 to 1809 9 pages
1810 to 1819 16 pages
1820 to 1829 531 pages
1830 to 1839 860 pages
1840 to 1849 1,368 pages
1850 to 1859 1,634 pages
1860 to 1869 1,954 pages
1870 to 1879 3,002 pages
1880 to 1889 3,225 pages
1890 to 1899 8,555 pages
1900 to 1909 14,312 pages
1910 to 1919 23,464 pages
1920 to 1929 11,364 pages
1930 to 1939 531 pages
1940 to 1949 1,096 pages
1950 to 1959 698 pages
1960 to 1969 47 pages

Languages

English 69,965 pages
German 2,109 pages
Choctaw 1,216 pages
French 880 pages
Japanese 496 pages

Ethnic press: German, African American, Japanese

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