Historic newspapers · Connecticut

Connecticut historic newspapers: 64,983 free digitised pages

Name: Connecticut 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 Connecticut 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
New Britain Herald (New Britain, Conn.)	1890–1976	4,976
The Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)	1917–1946	4,932
Morning Journal and Courier (New Haven [Conn.])	1848–1894	4,439
Norwich Bulletin (Norwich, Conn.)	1895–2011	4,383
The Daily Morning Journal and Courier (New Haven, Conn.)	1894–1907	4,211
The New Haven Union (New Haven, Conn.)		3,113
The Bridgeport Evening Farmer (Bridgeport, Conn.)	1866–1917	2,767
Litchfield Enquirer (Litchfield, Conn.)		2,629
Connecticut Western News (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.)	1871–1970	2,476
Waterbury Evening Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)	1887–1895	2,361

Counties

New Haven 27,398 pages
Hartford 10,762 pages
Fairfield 8,633 pages
Windham 6,578 pages
Litchfield 5,252 pages
New London 4,552 pages
Tolland 1,908 pages
New York 269 pages
Middlesex 142 pages

Cities

New Haven 15,420 pages
Waterbury 11,978 pages
New Britain 7,007 pages
Bridgeport 5,745 pages
Norwich 4,436 pages
Putnam 4,271 pages
Litchfield 2,762 pages
Canaan 2,476 pages
North Canaan 2,476 pages
Salisbury 2,476 pages

By decade

1760 to 1769 1 pages
1770 to 1779 261 pages
1780 to 1789 197 pages
1790 to 1799 1 pages
1800 to 1809 2 pages
1810 to 1819 2 pages
1820 to 1829 203 pages
1830 to 1839 1,938 pages
1840 to 1849 2,210 pages
1850 to 1859 1,455 pages
1860 to 1869 1,308 pages
1870 to 1879 1,588 pages
1880 to 1889 5,511 pages
1890 to 1899 8,429 pages
1900 to 1909 10,282 pages
1910 to 1919 12,166 pages
1920 to 1929 8,015 pages
1930 to 1939 5,666 pages
1940 to 1949 4,935 pages
1950 to 1959 581 pages
1960 to 1969 419 pages

Languages

English 64,983 pages
Italian 2,388 pages
Polish 923 pages

Ethnic press: Italian, Polish, Jewish, African American

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