Historic newspapers · New Mexico

New Mexico historic newspapers: 48,214 free digitised pages

Name: New Mexico 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 New Mexico 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
Albuquerque Morning Journal (Albuquerque, N.M.)	1903–1926	6,071
Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, N.M.)	1898–1951	4,909
Santa Fe Daily New Mexican (Santa Fe, N.M.)	1885–1897	2,753
The Evening Herald (Albuquerque, N.M.)	1914–1922	2,689
Las Vegas Daily Optic (Las Vegas, N.M.)	1880–1908	2,463
The Roswell Daily Record (Roswell, N.M.)		2,093
Albuquerque Daily Citizen (Albuquerque, N.M.)	1895–1903	1,704
Sierra County Advocate (Kingston, N.M.)	1884–1960	1,612
Las Vegas Optic (East Las Vegas, N.M.)	1908–1921	1,386
Las Vegas Daily Gazette ([Las Vegas, N.M.])	1881–1886	1,119

Counties

Bernalillo 13,369 pages
Santa Fe 10,321 pages
San Miguel 7,746 pages
Chaves 2,093 pages
Sierra 1,949 pages
Luna 1,876 pages
Lincoln 1,856 pages
Torrance 1,443 pages
Eddy 1,249 pages
Hidalgo 937 pages

Cities

Albuquerque 13,369 pages
Santa Fe. 10,298 pages
Las Vegas 7,746 pages
Roswell 2,093 pages
Hillsboro 1,612 pages
Kingston 1,612 pages
Truth or Consequences 1,612 pages
Deming 1,416 pages
Carlsbad 1,249 pages
Estancia 1,225 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 183 pages
1860 to 1869 289 pages
1870 to 1879 396 pages
1880 to 1889 2,835 pages
1890 to 1899 8,426 pages
1900 to 1909 15,968 pages
1910 to 1919 16,586 pages
1920 to 1929 3,650 pages
1930 to 1939 28 pages
1940 to 1949 28 pages
1950 to 1959 22 pages
1960 to 1969 17 pages

Languages

English 46,263 pages
Spanish 15,262 pages

Ethnic press: Latin American

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