Historic newspapers · Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico historic newspapers: 33,556 free digitised pages

Everything below is what the Library of Congress holds online for Puerto Rico 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

NewspaperYearsPages online
Gazeta De Puerto-Rico (San Juan, P.R.)10,644
Boletín Mercantil De Puerto Rico (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-8,582
La Correspondencia De Puerto Rico (San Juan, P.R.)1890–19436,527
La Democracia (Ponce, P.R.)1890–19484,245
El Mundo (San Juan, P.R.)1919–19902,093
El Imparcial (San Juan, P.R.)1,465
El Mundo (San Juan, Puerto Rico; San Juan, P.R.)1919–19901
Gazeta De Puerto-Rico (San Juan, P.R.)1806–19021

Counties

    Cities

    • San Juan 33,556 pages
    • Caguas 4,245 pages
    • Ponce 4,245 pages

    By decade

    • 1800 to 1809 2 pages
    • 1810 to 1819 2 pages
    • 1820 to 1829 2 pages
    • 1830 to 1839 615 pages
    • 1840 to 1849 1,356 pages
    • 1850 to 1859 1,323 pages
    • 1860 to 1869 1,435 pages
    • 1870 to 1879 2,859 pages
    • 1880 to 1889 2,965 pages
    • 1890 to 1899 8,288 pages
    • 1900 to 1909 9,313 pages
    • 1910 to 1919 2,458 pages
    • 1920 to 1929 2,969 pages
    • 1930 to 1939 5 pages
    • 1940 to 1949 5 pages
    • 1950 to 1959 3 pages
    • 1960 to 1969 3 pages

    Languages

    • Spanish 33,556 pages
    • English 1,466 pages

    Ethnic press: Latin American

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