Historic newspapers · Kansas

Kansas historic newspapers: 47,465 free digitised pages

Name: Kansas 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 Kansas in Chronicling America, counted on 2026-10-07. 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 Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)	1892–1980	9,129
The Wichita Daily Eagle (Wichita, Kan.)	1890–1906	4,453
Western Kansas World (Wakeeney, Kan.)		1,903
Abilene Weekly Reflector (Abilene, Kan.)	1888–1935	1,814
The Indian Leader (Lawrence, Kan.)		1,755
Baxter Springs News (Baxter Springs, Kan.)	1882–1919	1,539
Barbour County Index (Medicine Lodge, Kan.)		1,535
Barton County Democrat (Great Bend, Kan.)	1885–1915	1,458
The Iola Register (Iola, Allen County, Kansas)	1875–1902	1,446
Phillipsburg Herald (Phillipsburg, Kan.)	1882–1905	1,252

Counties

Shawnee 12,562 pages
Sedgwick 7,716 pages
Dickinson 2,046 pages
Douglas 2,000 pages
Trego 1,903 pages
Ford 1,831 pages
Lyon 1,586 pages
Cherokee 1,573 pages
Barber 1,535 pages
Barton 1,458 pages

Cities

Topeka 12,318 pages
Wichita 7,716 pages
Abilene 2,046 pages
Lawrence 2,000 pages
Wakeeney 1,903 pages
Dodge City 1,831 pages
Emporia 1,586 pages
Baxter Springs 1,573 pages
Medicine Lodge 1,535 pages
Great Bend 1,458 pages

By decade

1800 to 1809 1 pages
1810 to 1819 1 pages
1820 to 1829 1 pages
1830 to 1839 1 pages
1840 to 1849 1 pages
1850 to 1859 679 pages
1860 to 1869 1,531 pages
1870 to 1879 2,808 pages
1880 to 1889 6,494 pages
1890 to 1899 14,282 pages
1900 to 1909 12,202 pages
1910 to 1919 7,068 pages
1920 to 1929 1,863 pages
1930 to 1939 378 pages
1940 to 1949 155 pages
1950 to 1959 130 pages
1960 to 1969 17 pages

Languages

English 47,465 pages

Ethnic press: African American, Indians of North America

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