Historic newspapers · Texas

Texas historic newspapers: 90,399 free digitised pages

Name: Texas 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 Texas 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
Freie Presse Für Texas (San Antonio, Tex.)	1865–1945	11,565
Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.)		10,242
San Antonio Daily Light (San Antonio, Tex.)	1886–1907	7,129
The Waxahachie Daily Light (Waxahachie, Tex.)		3,965
The Dallas Daily Herald (Dallas, Tex.)	1873–1887	3,672
El Paso Herald (El Paso, Tex.)	1901–1931	3,371
La Prensa (San Antonio, Tex.)	1913–1962	3,066
The Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.)	1897–1910	2,862
Bryan Morning Eagle (Bryan, Tex.)	1898–1909	2,648
Bryan Daily Eagle and Pilot (Bryan, Tex.)	1909–1918	2,395

Counties

Bexar 27,197 pages
Cameron 15,238 pages
Brazos 5,842 pages
Dallas 5,020 pages
El Paso 4,702 pages
Tarrant 4,206 pages
Ellis 3,965 pages
Webb 3,448 pages
McLennan 2,864 pages
Harris 2,597 pages

Cities

San Antonio 27,197 pages
Brownsville 15,238 pages
Bryan 5,842 pages
Dallas 5,020 pages
El Paso 4,702 pages
Fort Worth 4,206 pages
Waxahachie 3,965 pages
Laredo 3,448 pages
Waco 2,864 pages
Houston 2,597 pages

By decade

1730 to 1739 1 pages
1740 to 1749 1 pages
1750 to 1759 1 pages
1760 to 1769 1 pages
1770 to 1779 1 pages
1780 to 1789 1 pages
1790 to 1799 1 pages
1800 to 1809 5 pages
1810 to 1819 5 pages
1820 to 1829 5 pages
1830 to 1839 5 pages
1840 to 1849 37 pages
1850 to 1859 654 pages
1860 to 1869 876 pages
1870 to 1879 3,530 pages
1880 to 1889 13,245 pages
1890 to 1899 16,577 pages
1900 to 1909 19,046 pages
1910 to 1919 18,968 pages
1920 to 1929 7,488 pages
1930 to 1939 8,764 pages
1940 to 1949 1,441 pages
1950 to 1959 29 pages
1960 to 1969 28 pages

Languages

English 86,377 pages
Spanish 16,754 pages
German 11,565 pages

Ethnic press: German, Mexican, Latin American, Jewish, African American

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