Historic newspapers · Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania historic newspapers: 75,290 free digitised pages

Name: Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania 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
Amerikanski Srbobran (Pittsburg, Pa.; Pittsburgh, Pa.)		12,141
Lancaster Daily Intelligencer (Lancaster, Pa.)	1864–1928	2,975
The Scranton Tribune (Scranton, Pa.)	1891–1910	2,791
The Evening Herald (Shenandoah, Pa.)	1891–1966	2,670
Evening Public Ledger (Philadelphia [Pa.])	1914–1942	2,613
Scranton Wochenblatt (Scranton, Pa.)	1865–1918	2,278
The Forest Republican (Tionesta, Pa.)	1869–1952	2,174
The Columbian (Bloomsburg, Pa.)	1866–1910	2,070
Harrisburg Telegraph (Harrisburg, Pa.)	1879–1948	1,872
The Evening Telegraph (Philadelphia [Pa.])	1864–1918	1,696

Counties

Allegheny 14,527 pages
Philadelphia 8,534 pages
Lackawanna 5,071 pages
Lancaster 4,109 pages
Luzerne 3,739 pages
Columbia 3,577 pages
Cambria 2,700 pages
Schuylkill 2,670 pages
Dauphin 2,541 pages
Forest 2,174 pages

Cities

Pittsburgh 14,527 pages
Philadelphia 8,534 pages
Scranton 5,071 pages
Lancaster 4,109 pages
Bloomsburg 3,577 pages
Shenandoah 2,670 pages
Ebensburg 2,649 pages
Harrisburg 2,541 pages
Tionesta 2,174 pages
Clearfield 2,078 pages

By decade

1730 to 1739 1 pages
1740 to 1749 2 pages
1750 to 1759 4 pages
1760 to 1769 2 pages
1770 to 1779 660 pages
1780 to 1789 610 pages
1790 to 1799 2,001 pages
1800 to 1809 231 pages
1810 to 1819 2 pages
1820 to 1829 2 pages
1830 to 1839 214 pages
1840 to 1849 2,405 pages
1850 to 1859 4,145 pages
1860 to 1869 8,943 pages
1870 to 1879 8,114 pages
1880 to 1889 8,822 pages
1890 to 1899 11,904 pages
1900 to 1909 7,205 pages
1910 to 1919 7,579 pages
1920 to 1929 3,983 pages
1930 to 1939 3,029 pages
1940 to 1949 2,489 pages
1950 to 1959 2,719 pages
1960 to 1969 606 pages

Languages

English 73,677 pages
Serbian 12,141 pages
German 5,320 pages
Italian 621 pages
Polish 612 pages
Croatian 313 pages

Ethnic press: Serbian, German, Indians of North America, Polish, Croatian, African American, Italian

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