Historic newspapers · Iowa

Iowa historic newspapers: 59,699 free digitised pages

Name: Iowa 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 Iowa 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
Evening Times-Republican (Marshalltown, Iowa)	1890–1923	6,579
The Daily Gate City (Keokuk, Iowa)	1855–1916	6,480
Luxemburger Gazette (Dubuque, Iowa)	1871–1918	2,449
Decorah-Posten Og Ved Arnen (Decorah, Iowa)	1903–1972	2,208
Decorah-Posten (Decorah, Iowa)	1874–1903	2,007
Ottumwa Tri-Weekly Courier (Ottumwa, Iowa)	1903–1916	2,003
Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa)	1895–1913	1,805
The Oskaloosa Herald (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa)	1885–1919	1,786
Audubon Republican (Audubon, Iowa)	1894–1925	1,540
The Daily Gate City and Constitution-Democrat (Keokuk, Iowa)	1916–1922	1,471

Counties

Lee 7,951 pages
Marshall 6,579 pages
Scott 6,009 pages
Winneshiek 5,617 pages
Wapello 3,931 pages
Howard 3,843 pages
Audubon 3,272 pages
Dubuque 2,843 pages
Mahaska 2,599 pages
Woodbury 1,806 pages

Cities

Keokuk 7,951 pages
Marshalltown 6,579 pages
Davenport 6,009 pages
Decorah 5,617 pages
Ottumwa 3,931 pages
Cresco 3,448 pages
Dubuque 2,843 pages
Oskaloosa 2,599 pages
Audubon 1,980 pages
Sioux City 1,806 pages

By decade

1800 to 1809 1 pages
1810 to 1819 1 pages
1820 to 1829 1 pages
1830 to 1839 121 pages
1840 to 1849 915 pages
1850 to 1859 5,914 pages
1860 to 1869 10,884 pages
1870 to 1879 4,235 pages
1880 to 1889 2,343 pages
1890 to 1899 4,110 pages
1900 to 1909 12,912 pages
1910 to 1919 16,159 pages
1920 to 1929 2,259 pages
1930 to 1939 14 pages
1940 to 1949 10 pages
1950 to 1959 8 pages
1960 to 1969 8 pages

Languages

English 56,162 pages
Norwegian 4,215 pages
German 3,622 pages
Swedish 1,358 pages
Czech 328 pages

Ethnic press: Norwegian, Luxembourger, African American, Swedish, German, Czech

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