Historic newspapers · Missouri

Missouri historic newspapers: 56,247 free digitised pages

Name: Missouri 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 Missouri 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
Auttaja (Ironwood, Mich.)		2,532
Mexico Weekly Ledger (Mexico, Mo.)	1855–1956	2,410
Iron County Register (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.)	1867–1965	2,226
Fair Play (Ste. Genevieve [Mo.])	1872–1961	2,199
The St. Louis Republic (St. Louis, Mo.)	1888–1919	2,180
Hermanner Volksblatt (Hermann, Mo.)	1875–1928	2,130
The Holt County Sentinel (Oregon, Mo.)	1883–1980	1,972
University Missourian (Columbia, Mo.)	1908–1916	1,918
Chariton Courier (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.)		1,900
The Butler Weekly Times (Butler, Mo.)	1881–1918	1,883

Counties

Boone 4,023 pages
Audrain 3,397 pages
Holt 2,909 pages
Lafayette 2,870 pages
Bates 2,620 pages
Gogebic 2,532 pages
Jackson 2,437 pages
Gasconade 2,360 pages
Iron 2,226 pages
Sainte Genevieve 2,199 pages

Cities

Saint Louis 4,942 pages
Columbia 4,023 pages
Mexico 3,397 pages
Oregon 2,909 pages
Lexington 2,870 pages
Ironwood 2,532 pages
Kansas City 2,437 pages
Hermann 2,360 pages
Ironton 2,226 pages
Sainte Genevieve 2,199 pages

By decade

1800 to 1809 1 pages
1810 to 1819 1 pages
1820 to 1829 1 pages
1830 to 1839 4 pages
1840 to 1849 1,037 pages
1850 to 1859 829 pages
1860 to 1869 958 pages
1870 to 1879 3,203 pages
1880 to 1889 5,393 pages
1890 to 1899 8,467 pages
1900 to 1909 14,567 pages
1910 to 1919 16,317 pages
1920 to 1929 4,024 pages
1930 to 1939 468 pages
1940 to 1949 478 pages
1950 to 1959 522 pages
1960 to 1969 213 pages

Languages

English 50,563 pages
German 3,152 pages
Finnish 2,532 pages

Ethnic press: German, African American

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