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New York City Newspapers at The New York Public Library: Pre-20th Century

American Citizen

American Citizen (1802-1810)

American Minerva: An Evening Advertiser

Chronicle Express

Chronicle Express (1802-1804, 1820)

Commercial Advertiser

New-York Commercial Advertiser  (1895-1904)
The Globe and Commercial Advertiser (1904-1923)

Preceding titles
New York Commercial Advertiser (1892-1895)
Call number: *ZY (New York commercial advertiser (New York, 1892)
 
The Commercial Advertiser (1889-1892)
Call number: *ZY (Commercial Advertiser)
 
New-York Commercial Advertiser (1831-1889)
Call number: *ZY (New York Commercial Advertiser)
 
Commercial Advertiser (1809-1830)
Call number: *ZY (New York Commercial Advertiser)
 
New-York Commercial Advertiser (1804-1809)
Call number: *ZY (New York Commercial Advertiser)
 
Commercial Advertiser (1797-1804)
Call number: *ZY (New York Commercial Advertiser)
 
Digital Resource
Commercial Advertiser (1797-1876)
In America's Historical Newspapers

Commercial Bulletin and Auction Record

Daily Commercial Bulletin and Auction Record (1886-1893)
Call number: *ZY (Daily Commercial Bulletin and Auction Record (New York)

New York Daily Commercial Bulletin and Auction Record (1879-1886)
Call number: *ZY (Daily commercial bulletin and auction record (New York), 1879)

The New York Daily Bulletin (1869-1874)
Call number: *ZY (Daily commercial bulletin and auction record (New York)

The New York Daily Bulletin: and Auction Record (1874-1878)
Call number: *ZY (Daily commercial bulletin and auction record (New York), 1874)

The Diary

The Diary (1792-1794)

Evening Mail

Evening Mail (1879-1881)
Call number: *ZY

The Mail (1878-1879)
Call number: *ZY

The New York Mail (1877-1878)
Call number: *ZY

Evening World

Evening World (1887-1931)

Digital Resource
Evening World (1887-1922)
in Chronicling America (freely available)

Evening Telegram

The Evening Telegram (1867-1924)

Express, New York

The Dollar Express (1856)
Call number: *Z-3527

New York Daily Express (1836-1842)
Call number: *ZY (New York daily express)

New York Evening Express (1843-1881)
Call number: *ZY (New York evening express)

New York Morning Express (1843-1861)
Call number: *ZY

New York Semi-Weekly Express (1839-1853)
Call number: *ZY (New York semi-weekly express)

The Impartial Gazetteer, and, Saturday Evening's Post

The Irish-American

The Irish-American (1849-1915)
Call number: *ZY The Irish-American

The Irish Nation

The Irish Nation (1881-1883)
Call number: *ZY (New York Irish Nation)

Digital Resource
The Irish Nation (1881-1883)

The New York Atlas

The New York Atlas (1841-1857)

New-York Dispatch

New-York Dispatch (1855 -1861)
Call number: *ZY (New-York dispatch)

The New-York Evening-Post

New York Herald

New York Herald (1840-1920) (Research catalog)

Also off-site copy in Research Catalog.
New York Herald (1840-1924) (Second copy)

Continues:
Morning Herald. (1837-1840)
The Herald (1835-1837)

Digital Resources
In Chronicling America
The Herald (1836-1837)
Morning Herald (1837-1842)
New York Herald (1842-1879, 1920) 

In America's Historical Newspapers (Newsbank)
New York Herald (1802-1817)
New York Herald (1835-1898)

In Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers (Gale)
New York Herald (1830-1863)

Note:
Years not covered in Chronicling America: (1880-1919, 1923-1924)
Years not covered in a Digital Resource: (1898-1919, 1923-1924)

The New-York Gazette and The Weekly Mercury

The New-York Gazette or The Weekly Post-Boy

The New-York Gazette, or, The Weekly Post-Boy (1747-1770)
Call number: *ZAN-7473

New York Journal

The New-York Journal, and Weekly Register

The New-York Mercury

The New-York Mercury (1752-1768)

The New York Packet, and the American Advertiser

New York Press

The New York Press (1896-1916)
Call Number: *ZY (New York Press)

The Press (1887-1896)
Call Number: *ZY (New York Press. 1887-1896) 

New York Post

New York Post (1801-current)
Call number: *R-*ZY 74-11

New-York evening post (1816-1819)
Evening Post (New York, N.Y. : Semiweekly) (1850-1901)

Digital Resources
in NYS Historic Newspapers (freely available) 
New-York Evening Post (1801-1832)
Evening Post (1832-1920)

New-York Spectator

New York Spectator and Weekly Commercial Advertiser (1867-1875)
(See Commercial Advertiser.)
New-York Spectator (1804-1867)
New-York Spectator (1804-1821)
Call number: *ZAN-13247

Digital Resource
In America's Historical Newspapers (Newsbank)
Spectator (1797-1851)


The Spectator (1797-1802)
Call number: *ZAN-7473

Digital Resource
New-York Spectator (1797-1851) in America's Historical Newspapers


The Herald; A Gazette For the Country (1794-1797)
Call number: *ZAN-7473

Digital Resource
The Herald; A Gazette For the Country

New York Times

*ZY (New York Times) (Record #1) (1857-1960)

Digital Resources
Full text page images in:
New York Times (1851-2016) w/ Index (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

New-York Tribune

New-York Daily Tribune (1842-1866) 
New-York Tribune (1866-1924)
Call number: *R-*ZY (New York Tribune)

Digital Resources
In ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Tribune / Herald Tribune 
New-York Tribune (1841-1842)
New-York Daily Tribune (1842-1866)
New-York Tribune (1866-1924)
ProQuest Civil War Era / New York Herald (1840-1865) 


In Chronicling America 
New-York Daily Tribune  (1842- 1866)
New-York Tribune.(1866-1922)


Indexes
The New York Daily Tribune Index [microform]. (1875-1906)
The New York Daily Tribune Index HathiTrust (1875-1906)
New York Tribune Index (1875-1906) Eight Centuries, on-site access

The New-York Weekly Journal

The New-York Weekly Journal (1733-1751)

Digital Resource
The New-York Weekly Journal (1733-1750)

The New York Weekly Post

New-York Weekly Times

New-York Weekly Times (1861-1865)

New-York Weekly Tribune

New York Weekly Witness

The People's Friend

The People's Friend (1807) (Digital)

Republican Watch-Tower

Scottish American Journal

Semi-Weekly Courier and New-York Enquirer

Street and Smith's New York Weekly

Print & Microfilm
Street and Smith's New York Weekly (1860-1909)

Sun

Sun (New York, N.Y. : 1833) (1833-1916) 
Call number: *ZY (Sun (New York, N.Y. : 1833)) 
Sun (New York, N.Y. : 1916) (1916-1920)
Call number: *ZY New York Sun 

Digital Resource
In Chronicling America
The Sun. (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916 (1859-1916)

The Volunteer

The Volunteer (1860 - )

Weekly Courier and New-York Enquirer

The Weekly Herald

The Weekly Herald (1836-1870)
Digital Resource
The Weekly Herald

World

World (New York, N.Y. : 1860 : Daily) (1860-1861) [Alexander Cummings]
The World and Morning Courier and New-York Enquirer. (1861-1863) *ZY (World. New York, N.Y)
World (New York, N.Y. : 1863) (1863-1881) *ZY (World. New York, N.Y)
New York World (New York, N.Y. : 1881 : Daily) (to 1883) (7 reels)
World (New York, N.Y. : 1883 : Daily) (1883-1931) (517 reels) Joseph Pulitzer

Digital Resources
World (1861-1876) in America's Historical Newspapers
World in Fulton Search (1862-1882)
World (1890 - 1899) in Newspapers.com Library Edition
World via Center for Research Libraries: 
(May 11 - Aug 1883; 1885; Nov 16, 1894-1895; Jan 23-Dec 1921)
New York World (thrice a week) via Center for Research Libraries: (1898-Jan 10, 1902)