Newspaper Collection, 1770-1992 | Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives

By Jackie Couture

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Collection Overview

Title: Newspaper Collection, 1770-1992

Extent: 10.22 Cubic Feet

Date Acquired: 05/16/2006

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The Newspaper Collection is an artificial collection compiled from donations of various volumes and issues. The collection consists largely of newspapers from Madison County, Kentucky, but also includes scattered issues from other Kentucky counties and other states. This collection represents the most complete collection of newspapers from Madison County in existence.

Administrative Information

Repository: Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives

Physical Access Note: The New Hampshire Gazette, and Historical Chronicle, Portsmouth, NH (19: 698; Mar 2, 1770) [2000-005] - photocopy must be used before original will be paged.

Acquisition Source: N/A

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Box:

[Box 1],
[Box 2],
[Box 3],
[Box 4],
[Box 5],
[Box 6],
[Box 7],
[Box 8],
[Box 9],
[Box 10],
[Box 11],
[Box 12],
[Box 13],
[Box 14],
[Box 15],
[Box 16],
[Box 17],
[Box 18],
[Box 19],
[Box 20],
[Box 21],
[Box 22],
[[information restricted]],
[Box 23],
[Box 24],
[Box 25],
[Box 26],
[Box 27],
[Box 28],
[Box 29],
[Box 30],
[Box 31],
[Box 32],
[Box 33],
[Box 34],
[All]

Box 26

Folder 1: Miscellaneous Other States

Item 1: The New York Ledger, 1860: (16:29 Sep 22, 1860); Acquisition Information: [2000-005]
Item 2: New York Herald, 1862: (27:303 Nov 2, 1862 - partial issue); Acquisition Information: [2000-005]
Item 3: The New York Times, 1862: (12:3445 Oct 8, 1862); Acquisition Information: [2000-005]
Item 4: Utica [NY] Weekly Herald, 1867: (20:2022 May 28, 1867); Acquisition Information: [2000-005]
Item 5: The Roman Citizen Rome, NY, 1860-1861: (21:09 Aug 1, 1860) (22:09 Aug 2, 1861); Acquisition Information: [2000-005]

Folder 2: Miscellaneous Other States

Item 1: The Keithsburg [IL] News, 1892: (18:13 Jul 21, 1892)
Item 2: Harrisburg [IL] Chronicle, 1863-1865: (4:15, 5:03, 21, 6:19, 44 Apr 11, 1863, Jan 16, 1864, May 24, 1864, Jun 7, 1865, Nov 29, 1865); Acquisition Information: [2000-005]
Item 3: Chicago Daily Tribune, 1861, 1901: (14:246, 60:257 Apr 15, 1861, Sep 14, 1901); Acquisition Information: [2000-005]
Item 4: Chicago Defender, 1948: (44:29 Oct 30, 1948 - partial issue); Acquisition Information: [2000-005]
Item 5: Western Olive Branch, 1 Oct 1860: "Devoted to Temperance and Social Improvement." (From Dorris Museum, #1759); Acquisition Information: 2000-005

Folder 3: Miscellaneous Other States

Item 1: The Record of the Ohio Improved Chester Swine Cleveland, OH, 1887
Item 2: Cincinnati Daily Commercial, 1862, 1882: (23:84, 42:277. Oct 10, 1862; Jul 1, 1882)
Item 3: Cincinnati Enquirer, 1885: (43:143 May 23, 1885)
Item 4: The Menace Aurora, MO, 1915: (no. 225 Aug 14, 1915)
Item 5: St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 1901: (27:111 Sep 7, 1901); Acquisition Information: 2000-005
Item 6: The Sun Mt. Vernon, IN, 1905: (25:61 Jun 18, 1905)
Item 7: The National Tribune Washington, D.C., 1879: (3:12 Dec 1879)
Item 8: The American Observer Washington, D.C., 1935: (4:33 Apr 29, 1935); Acquisition Information: 2000-005
Item 9: National Intelligencer, 27 May 1847: (48:6930) (From Dorris Museum, #1753); Acquisition Information: 2000-005

Folder 4: Miscellaneous Other States

Item 1: Ulster County Gazette Kingston, PA, 1800: (2:88 Jan 4, 1800) copy; Acquisition Information: 2000-005
Item 2: The Independent Balance Philadelphia, PA, 1819: (3:132)
Item 3: Atkinson's Saturday Evening Post Philadelphia, PA, 1833: (13:647 Dec 21, 1833)
Item 4: The Saturday Evening Post Philadelphia PA, 1852: (32:1633 Nov 13, 1852)
Item 5: The Philadelphia Press, 1880: (24:Campaign Edition 2 Sep 1880)
Item 6: Public Ledger Philadelphia PA, 1836, 1889: (1:1, 107:8 Mar 25, 1836; Jul 5, 1889); Acquisition Information: [2000-005]