Historic newspapers · Washington

Washington historic newspapers: 55,590 free digitised pages

Name: Washington 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 Washington 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 Seattle Star (Seattle, Wash.)	1899–1947	8,077
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.])	1888–1914	4,581
The Tacoma Times (Tacoma, Wash.)	1903–1949	4,277
Washington Standard (Olympia, Wash. Territory)	1860–1921	3,200
The Spokane Press (Spokane, Wash.)	1902–1939	2,794
The Evening Statesman (Walla Walla, Wash.)	1903–1910	2,110
Aberdeen Herald (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.)	1886–1917	1,980
Seattle Daily Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.])	1881–1888	1,888
Pullman Herald (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.])	1888–1989	1,597
The Wenatchee Daily World (Wenatchee, Wash.)	1905–1971	1,504

Counties

King 21,009 pages
Pierce 4,581 pages
Thurston 3,992 pages
Spokane 3,413 pages
Benton 3,262 pages
Walla Walla 2,900 pages
Chelan 2,462 pages
Whitman 2,228 pages
Grays Harbor 2,212 pages
Yakima 1,518 pages

Cities

Seattle 20,119 pages
Tacoma 4,277 pages
Olympia 3,992 pages
Spokane 3,413 pages
Walla Walla 2,900 pages
Kennewick 2,380 pages
Aberdeen 1,980 pages
Pullman 1,597 pages
Yakima 1,518 pages
Wenatchee 1,504 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 2 pages
1810 to 1819 2 pages
1820 to 1829 2 pages
1830 to 1839 2 pages
1840 to 1849 2 pages
1850 to 1859 471 pages
1860 to 1869 1,175 pages
1870 to 1879 2,411 pages
1880 to 1889 4,458 pages
1890 to 1899 8,141 pages
1900 to 1909 15,465 pages
1910 to 1919 13,128 pages
1920 to 1929 4,917 pages
1930 to 1939 2,315 pages
1940 to 1949 2,431 pages
1950 to 1959 816 pages
1960 to 1969 66 pages

Languages

English 55,590 pages

Ethnic press: African American, Filipino, Scandinavian

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