Historic newspapers · Wisconsin

Wisconsin historic newspapers: 59,536 free digitised pages

Name: Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin 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 Milwaukee Leader (Milwaukee, Wis.)	1911–1938	6,667
Grant County Herald (Lancaster, Wis.)	1850–1968	3,738
The Manitowoc Pilot (Manitowoc, Wis.)	1859–1932	3,214
Wood County Reporter (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.)	1857–1923	3,100
River Falls Journal (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.)	1872–2019	2,829
Mineral Point Tribune (Mineral Point, Wis.)	1869–1938	2,814
Iowa County Democrat (Mineral Point, Wis.)	1877–1938	2,336
Watertown Republican (Watertown, Wis.)	1860–1906	2,113
The Superior Times (Superior, Wis.)	1870–1912	1,975
Eagle River Review (Eagle River, Wis.)	1890–1927	1,819

Counties

Milwaukee 12,733 pages
Iowa 6,930 pages
Washington 5,043 pages
Kenosha 4,272 pages
Grant 4,049 pages
Manitowoc 3,757 pages
Pierce 3,680 pages
Saint Croix 3,515 pages
Vilas 3,282 pages
Wood 3,100 pages

Cities

Milwaukee 11,597 pages
Mineral Point 6,243 pages
Kenosha 4,272 pages
Lancaster 4,049 pages
Manitowoc 3,757 pages
Eagle River 3,282 pages
River Falls 3,172 pages
Wisconsin Rapids 3,100 pages
Watertown 2,953 pages
Superior 2,676 pages

By decade

1840 to 1849 906 pages
1850 to 1859 1,424 pages
1860 to 1869 3,414 pages
1870 to 1879 5,102 pages
1880 to 1889 4,694 pages
1890 to 1899 8,445 pages
1900 to 1909 12,039 pages
1910 to 1919 14,689 pages
1920 to 1929 7,885 pages
1930 to 1939 924 pages
1940 to 1949 183 pages
1950 to 1959 11 pages
1960 to 1969 8 pages

Languages

English 53,523 pages
German 5,532 pages
Danish 1,574 pages
Finnish 439 pages
Polish 418 pages
Czech 328 pages
Italian 159 pages

Ethnic press: German, Danish, African American, Finnish, Polish, Czech, Italian

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