Jump to Content

Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Guide to the American Newspaper Collection, 1704-1958
PN4853 .A44 1704  
View entire collection guide What's This?
Search this collection
Collection Details
 
Table of contents What's This?
  • Descriptive Summary
  • Administrative Information
  • Collection Scope and Content Summary
  • Access Terms

  • Descriptive Summary

    Title: [American newspaper collection],
    Date (inclusive): 1704-1958
    Collection number: PN4853 .A44 1704
    Collector: Stanford University Libraries
    Extent: 244 print boxes : ill. ; 60 x 44-81 x 60 cm.
    Repository: Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
    Abstract: Consists of scattered issues of 266 different American newspapers, with a heavy concentration in colonial and early federal newspapers from New England and the middle Atlantic states, as well as a few from the south and the midwest. Also included are 19th & 20th century newspapers from northern California.
    Language: English.

    Administrative Information

    Access Restrictions

    None.

    Publication Rights

    Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.

    Preferred Citation

    [American newspaper collection]. PN4853 .A44 1704. Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

    Acquisition Information

    Various sources of acquisition. Collection was brought together as a whole by the Stanford University Libraries' Department of Special Collections.

    Collection Scope and Content Summary

    Consists of scattered issues of 266 different American newspapers, with a heavy concentration in colonial and early federal newspapers from New England and the middle Atlantic states, as well as a few from the south and the midwest. Also included are 19th & 20th century newspapers from northern California.
    Most of the newspapers are in print boxes, but the collection also includes 16 bound volumes of newspapers and 1 elephant folder containing the Independent democrat of Concord, N.H.
    SPEC-COLL - RARE-BOOKS copy 1 Library has: 244 print boxes Supplement: 16 v., 1 folder

    Access Terms

    The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
    American newspapers.
    United States--History--Sources.
    California--History--Sources.