R. M. Cooper Library Reference Unit
Historical Newspapers
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South Carolina Newspapers On Microfilm in Cabinets on the West Side of Cooper’s 4th Floor
(City of Publication)/Title Dates Aiken Standard Oct 1917 – Aug 1930 Aiken Standard & South Carolina Gazette 1930-1935 Anderson Daily Mail Jan 1900 – Aug 1925; May 1945 – Oct 1949 Anderson Gazette Nov 11, 1843 - Feb 24, 1848 (Anderson) Highland Sentinel Sep 1840 – Oct 1843 Anderson Intelligencer Aug 14, 1860 - Aug, 1906; Jan 1914 - Jun 1916 Anderson Independent-Mail Apr 1929 -- present (Anderson) People's Advocate 1892, 1893, Jan-Oct 4, 1897 (Anderson) The Record 1931-1936 Beaufort Gazette Jul 1903 - 1973 Camden Chronicle Nov 6, 1891 - Mar 24, 1960 (Charleston) City Gazette Jan-Dec 1789 (Charleston) Columbian Herald Jun 1787-Oct 1790 Charleston Courier 1803-1852 Charleston Daily Courier 1852 - Apr 1873 (Charleston) Deutsche Zeitung 1853-1859; 1876-1900; 1905-1917 Charleston Evening Post Oct 1894 – Dec 1974 Charleston Gazette 1777-1780 Charleston Mercury 1822-1845, Jan 1846 – Nov 1868 Charleston News & Courier Jan 1873-1944:Dec 29; 1959-1991:Sep30 Charleston Post & Courier Oct 1991-- present (Charleston) South Carolina & American 1764-1781 General Gazette (Charleston) South Carolina Gazette 1732-1782 (Charleston) South Carolina Gazette & Country 1765-1775 Journal (Charleston) Royal Gazette 1781-1782 (Charleston) Royal South Carolina Gazette 1780-1782 Chester Reporter Mar 7, 1874 - Jun 27, 1906 Clemson Commentator 1938 (Clemson) Daily Messenger Sep 1999 – Sep 2009 (Clemson) Messenger Apr 1954 – Sep 1999 (Clemson) Orange & White 1978 – 1990 (more in Special Collections) (Clemson University) Tiger 1907 – present (Columbia) Palmetto Leader Jan 1925 – Sep 1957 Columbia Record 1925 - 1945 (Columbia) State Feb 1891 – present Darlington News & Press Dec 1911 – Oct 1939
Easley Messenger Oct 1883 - Oct 1884 Edgefield Advertiser Oct 1856 - Apr 1868 Florence Morning News 1924 – 1945; 1975 - 1995 Georgetown Times Jun 1868 – Dec 1904 Greenville Mountaineer Jan 10, 1829 - Apr 1850 Greenville News Jun 1900 – present Greenville Piedmont Apr 1927 – 1945 Greenwood Index Journal Sept 1924 – Dec 1945 (Myrtle Beach) Sun News 1988 - present Orangeburg Times-Democrat Aug 15, 1879 - Dec 1974 (Pendleton) Miller's Weekly Messenger Mar 20, 1807 - Jan 19, 1811 Pendleton Messenger May 22, 1813 - Nov 6, 1843 Pickens Sentinel Sep 7, 1876 - Sep 28, 1933 Rock Hill Evening Herald Jan 1880 - Dec 1974 (Seneca) Journal Nov 2009 - present (Spartanburg) Carolina Spartan Jan 14, 1858 - Dec 8, 1864 (Sumter) Daily Item Oct 1960 – Aug 1987 (Sumter) Item Sep 1987 – Sep 1995 (Walhalla) Keowee Courier 1849 – 1976* Yorkville Enquirer 1856 – 1889
Other Microfilm Requestable from Off-Campus Storage
African American Newspapers Afro-American (Baltimore) 1893 - 1926 Amsterdam News (New York) 1922 - 1926 Chicago Defender 1909 - 1971 Kansas City Call 1919 - 1954 New York Age 1905 - 1926 Pittsburgh Courier 1911 - 1912, 1923 – 1926
Other United States Newspapers Atlanta Constitution June 17, 1868 - present Boston Daily Advertiser Jan 1862 – Dec 1865 Charlotte Observer 1892 -- present Lynchburg Daily Virginian Aug 3, 1858 – Aug 31, 1866 Memphis Daily Appeal July 18, 1857 – May 4, 1866 Mobile Daily Register Feb 17, 1859 – May 27, 1864 New Orleans Times Picayune Dec 15, 1857 – Mar 2, 1866 New York Times Sept 1851 – Dec 2009 (online 1851-2007, present) Richmond Daily Dispatch Jan 1858 – Dec 31. 1866 Richmond Daily Whig Jan 1860 – July 31, 1865 Savannah Republican Dec 26, 1860 – 1865 Southern Confederacy (Atlanta, GA) Feb 12, 1861 – Feb 8, 1865 Wall Street Journal (eastern edition) 1849 – 2005 (online 1889-1993, present) Washington Post 1877 – Dec 2009 (online 1877-1994, present) Wilmington (NC) Daily Journal Jan 2, 1860 – July 14, 1866
Colonial & Early America Boston Newsletter 1704-1788 Freeman's Journal 1781-1785 Georgia Gazette 1763-1768 Jersey Chronicle (Mt. Pleasant, NJ) May 1795-Apr 1796 Maryland Journal Aug 1773-July 1797 New Brunswick Guardian Oct 1798-Oct 1813 New Hampshire Gazette 1756-1789 New Jersey Gazette (Trenton) 1777-1786 New Jersey Journal (Chatham) 1779-1783 New Jersey Journal (Elizabeth) 1786-1821 New York Mercury 1752-1783 North Carolina Gazette 1751-1798 Pennsylvania Evening Post 1775-1779 Pennsylvania Ledger 1775-1778 Pennsylvania Packet 1771-1790 (Philadelphia) National Gazette Oct 1791-Oct 1793 Political Intelligencer & New Jersey Advertiser 1783-1786 Rivington's New York Gazette 1773-1783 Sentinel of Freedom (Newark, NJ) Oct 1796 – Aug 1826 (Williamsburg) Virginia Gazette 1736-1780 Woods Newark Gazette 1791-1793
Great Britain (London) Times 1785-present (online 1785-1985)
Note: reels of microfilm may be requested through Interlibrary Loan for newspapers we do not own.
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