Historic newspapers · Rhode Island

Rhode Island historic newspapers: 35,552 free digitised pages

Name: Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island 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
The Providence News (Providence [R.I.])	1891–1906	4,494
Pawtucket Gazette and Chronicle (Pawtucket, R.I.)	1845–1912	2,581
Republican Herald (Providence [R.I.])	1832–1852	2,346
Providence Morning Star (Providence, R.I.)	1873–1886	1,661
The Rhode-Island Republican (Newport, R.I.)	1809–1841	1,609
Pawtucket Tribune (Pawtucket, R.I.)		1,519
The Rhode-Island American, and General Advertiser (Providence [R.I.])	1809–1823	1,480
The Olneyville Times (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.])	1887–1917	1,475
The Weekly Visitor (Central Falls, R.I.)	1869–1891	1,110
Narragansett Herald (Narragansett Pier, R.I.)		1,047

Counties

Providence 29,010 pages
Newport 4,192 pages
Washington 1,680 pages
Bristol 616 pages
Kent 54 pages
Suffolk 38 pages
New York 18 pages

Cities

Providence 18,235 pages
Pawtucket 6,248 pages
Newport 4,192 pages
Burrillville 2,154 pages
Pascoag 2,154 pages
Central Falls 1,110 pages
Narragansett Pier 1,100 pages
Harrisville 797 pages
Woonsocket 749 pages
Howard 508 pages

By decade

1770 to 1779 82 pages
1790 to 1799 54 pages
1800 to 1809 463 pages
1810 to 1819 1,640 pages
1820 to 1829 2,169 pages
1830 to 1839 3,088 pages
1840 to 1849 2,089 pages
1850 to 1859 1,512 pages
1860 to 1869 571 pages
1870 to 1879 3,919 pages
1880 to 1889 3,665 pages
1890 to 1899 8,033 pages
1900 to 1909 6,401 pages
1910 to 1919 1,238 pages
1920 to 1929 4 pages
1930 to 1939 2 pages
1940 to 1949 172 pages
1950 to 1959 348 pages
1960 to 1969 202 pages

Languages

English 34,548 pages
French 749 pages
Italian 384 pages
German 255 pages
Yiddish 26 pages
Hebrew 25 pages

Ethnic press: French, Italian, German, Jewish

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