Historic newspapers · Massachusetts

Massachusetts historic newspapers: 23,177 free digitised pages

Name: Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts 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
Worcester Daily Spy (Worcester [Mass.])	1850–1888	7,744
Springfield Weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)	1851–1946	4,713
The Liberator (Boston, Mass.)	1831–1865	1,829
The Worcester Spy (Worcester, Mass.)	1898–1904	1,739
Worcester Daily Press (Worcester, Mass.)	1873–1878	1,480
Morning Star (Limerick, Me.)	1826–1904	1,469
The Guardian (Boston, Mass.)	1901–1960	944
Cronaca Sovversiva (Barre, Vt.)	1903–1920	774
Worcester Morning Daily Spy (Worcester, Mass.)	1888–1898	623
The Daily Spy (Worcester [Mass.])	1845–1850	579

Counties

Worcester 12,930 pages
Hampden 4,789 pages
Suffolk 4,532 pages
New York 1,477 pages
Cook 1,469 pages
Cumberland 1,469 pages
Stafford 1,469 pages
Strafford 1,469 pages
York 1,469 pages
Essex 784 pages

Cities

Worcester 12,841 pages
Springfield 4,789 pages
Boston 4,674 pages
New York 1,477 pages
Chicago 1,469 pages
Dover 1,469 pages
Limerick 1,469 pages
Portland 1,469 pages
Barre 774 pages
Lynn 774 pages

By decade

1750 to 1759 1 pages
1760 to 1769 1 pages
1770 to 1779 210 pages
1780 to 1789 1 pages
1790 to 1799 1 pages
1810 to 1819 1 pages
1820 to 1829 598 pages
1830 to 1839 1,162 pages
1840 to 1849 1,572 pages
1850 to 1859 3,622 pages
1860 to 1869 3,860 pages
1870 to 1879 4,475 pages
1880 to 1889 526 pages
1890 to 1899 1,775 pages
1900 to 1909 2,152 pages
1910 to 1919 955 pages
1920 to 1929 524 pages
1930 to 1939 576 pages
1940 to 1949 852 pages
1950 to 1959 376 pages
1960 to 1969 2 pages

Languages

English 22,403 pages
Italian 774 pages
Yiddish 26 pages

Ethnic press: African American, Jewish

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