Historic newspapers · Indiana

Indiana historic newspapers: 55,952 free digitised pages

Name: Indiana 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 Indiana 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
The Indianapolis Journal (Indianapolis [Ind.])	1867–1904	7,737
South Bend News-Times (South Bend, Ind.)	1913–1938	6,419
The Richmond Palladium and Sun-Telegram (Richmond, Ind.)	1907–1939	5,168
The Indianapolis Times (Indianapolis [Ind.])	1922–1965	4,532
The Lake County Times (Hammond, Ind.)	1906–1933	3,945
The Evansville Daily Journal (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.])	1848–1862	3,262
The Jasper Weekly Courier (Jasper, Ind.)	1858–1922	3,233
The Berne Witness (Berne, Ind.)	1896–1921	2,029
Indiana Tribüne (Indianapolis, Ind.)	1878–1907	1,910
The Gary American (Gary, Ind.)		1,493

Counties

Marion 20,524 pages
Wayne 7,834 pages
Saint Joseph 6,419 pages
Vanderburgh 6,146 pages
Lake 5,452 pages
Dubois 3,233 pages
Marshall 2,873 pages
Adams 2,315 pages
Vigo 685 pages
Franklin 366 pages

Cities

Indianapolis 20,524 pages
Richmond 7,834 pages
South Bend 6,419 pages
Evansville 6,146 pages
Hammond 3,945 pages
Jasper 3,233 pages
Plymouth 2,873 pages
Berne 2,315 pages
Gary 1,507 pages
Terre Haute 685 pages

By decade

1800 to 1809 1 pages
1810 to 1819 1 pages
1820 to 1829 1 pages
1830 to 1839 245 pages
1840 to 1849 1,691 pages
1850 to 1859 3,845 pages
1860 to 1869 7,276 pages
1870 to 1879 1,880 pages
1880 to 1889 3,702 pages
1890 to 1899 5,405 pages
1900 to 1909 8,979 pages
1910 to 1919 9,447 pages
1920 to 1929 9,029 pages
1930 to 1939 3,365 pages
1940 to 1949 508 pages
1950 to 1959 583 pages
1960 to 1969 123 pages

Languages

English 54,042 pages
German 3,939 pages
French 1 pages

Ethnic press: African American, German

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