Local Print Newspapers in Microfilm

The Newspapers below, unless otherwise noted, are located by newspaper title in Lower Level Microfilm. Click on newspaper title to see catalog record.

FILED IN MICROFILM UNDER TITLE	CITY	DATES HELD	COMMENTS
Long Beach Press (Merged with, Long Beach Daily Telegram to form Long Beach Daily Press) (Continued by, Long Beach Daily Press)	Long Beach	1/22/1901-12/31/1915
Long Beach Daily Press (Merged from: Long Beach Press and Long Beach Daily Telegram) (Continued by, Long Beach Press Telegram)	Long Beach	11/4/1919-9/9/1924
Long Beach Daily Telegram (Merged with, Long Beach Press to form Long Beach Daily Press) (Continued by, Long Beach Daily Press)	Long Beach	12/16/1904-7/16/1916
The Union (CSULB Student Newspaper) Located in Library Special Collections	Long Beach	1977- (Holdings incomplete)	CSULB student newspaper
Long Beach Labor News (Labor News, Long Beach)	Long Beach	8/8/1943-12/24/1948
Long Beach Press Telegram (Continues, Long Beach Daily Press)	Long Beach	9/10/1924-1/15/1930; 10/1/1938-6/30/1947 Unbound, last mo.	In NEWSBANK 1990 to date In CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER ARCHIVE 1944-1968
Viking	Long Beach (City College)	1927-1938; 1948-1982	LB Community College Newspaper
Forty-Niner (Daily Forty Niner)	Long Beach, CSULB	11/1949-8/17/1998 Unbound latest	Newspaper Index in SPEC and REF 1949-1989
Free Venice Beachhead (Beachhead) M film call # AP2 F87	Los Angeles, Venice	mfilm: 1968-80; 2nd floor: 1984-1993	Counterculture, Underground
Venice Evening Vanguard (Evening vanguard, Venice vanguard, Venice Daily Vanguard, Evening Vanguard-Sun)	Los Angeles, Venice	1911-1940
Rafu Shimpo (L.A. Japanese Daily, L.A. Japanese Daily News, Los Angeles Japanese Daily News)	Los Angeles	1914-1969	In Japanese and English Japanese-American Newspaper
Pacific Citizen	Los Angeles	1942-1989	Japanese American Newspaper
Los Angeles Sentinel	Los Angeles	1968-1970, latest unbound	African-American Newspaper
Los Angeles Free Press (Free Press, Los Angeles)	Los Angeles	5/1964-6/1969	Counterculture, Underground

Local, California Newspapers, Online

California Digital Newspaper Collection 1846-1922
A collection of free full text searchable historic newspapers, inlcuding these:
California Star 1847-1848
Daily Alta California 1849-1891
Imperial Valley News 1901-1911
Los Angeles Herald 1873-1910
Los Angeles Star 1851-1854
Marin Journal (San Rafael) 1861-1920
Pacific Rural Press (SF) 1871-1922
Sacramento Daily Union 1851-1898
San Francisco Call 1890-1913
Sausalito News 1885-1922

California Newspaper Archive Full text facsimile content of California newspapers from 1846 to date. Includes Long Beach newspapers, 1938-1977, Orange County Register 1913-2016 and many other regional California newspapers.
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California Newspaper Project
An inventory of MICROFILM format California newspaper titles held in the state, noting which libraries have microfilm or print holdings. No online content.
Chung Sai Yat Po (San Francisco)
Chinese language newspaper, 1900-1904
Daily Forty-Niner Online Archive, 1949 to Date
Online archive of the campus newpaper from 1994-2006.
El Clamor Politico
A early Los Angeles Spanish language newspaper, with some English articles, published from 1855 - 1859.

Daily 49er (Current issues). Student CSULB Newspaper.

Historical Los Angeles Times Full text, facsimile content of the Los Angeles Times for 1881-1996. Includes complete articles, photographs, advertisements, classified ads, legal notices, comics, editorials, commentary, letters to the editor, sports, radio and television schedules. For more current content, see: Los Angeles Times (1985-current)
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Independent Voices: Open Access Alternative Press 1950 to Date: An open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of libraries. Covers topics related to feminism, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press. Includes LA Free Press and Berkeley Barb

Index to The forty-niner: California State University, Long Beach
Print index to the Daily 49er from 1949 - 1989, located in REF and Special Collections.
Jewish Community Chronicle, Long Beach
Browsable (but not content searchable) pdf files for Chronicle from 1947 - 2000.

Long Beach Press Telegram online 1938-1977 in California Newspaper Archive; and from 1990- in Newsbank

Long Beach Public Library History Index
Provides citations to old Long Beach newspaper and magazine articles, 1890 to date. Many held at Long Beach Public Library. CSULB has some of these titles.
Whittier Historic Newspaper Collection
Three local newspapers full text online from 1888 - 1942.

U.S. Historic Newspapers Online

Here are some databases for finding primary newspaper articles.

America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1876 This offers fully searchable, facsimile reproductions of 650 historical American newspapers. Northern & “Old Northwest” newspapers are covered up until 1876. Southern newspaper coverage stops by the 1820s.
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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Produced by the Library of Congress, you can search hundreds of free, full text historic American newspapers up to the early 1920s.

Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 Hundreds of Spanish-language newspaper articles from 1808 to 1980, with some articles also appearing in English.
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Historical Hartford Courant, 1764 - 1992 America's longest continuously published newspaper, the Hartford Courant is literally older than the nation. It provides researchers a front-row seat from which to view the birth of an independent nation. Firsthand accounts of colonist reactions to the Stamp Act, Boston Tea Party and a copy of the Declaration of Independence. Coverage of 1764-1990, including news articles, photos, advertisements, classified ads, obituaries, cartoons, and more.
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Historical New York Times Full text facsimile content of the New York Times from 1851 up until the previous three years. Includes all articles, reviews, commentary, literary criticism, comics, obituaries, classifieds, and display ads. More photographs may be viewable using the “full page PDF” viewing option.
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Historical Chicago Defender, 1905-1975 A full text African American newspaper available from 1905-1975. Historical research on civil rights, segregation, African American migration to the industrial states, anti-lynching legislation, and the modern civil rights movement. Also published the works of Black authors, such as Gwendolyn Brooks and Langston Hughes.
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NewsBank
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Includes Long Beach Pess Telegram, 1990-; Grunion Gazette, 2001- ; Daily 49er, 2008-
19th Century US Newspapers Digital Archive Features publications of all kinds, from political party newspapers to major dailies papers published by African Americans, Native Americans, women's rights groups, labor groups, and the Confederacy.
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Wikipedia Link of Online Newspaper Archives
Extensive list of sites that have historical newpapers online. Indicates whether the paper is full text access or index only and whether content is free. Good place to find local history.

Long Beach and Local History: Historical Newspapers

Local Print Newspapers in Microfilm

Local, California Newspapers, Online

U.S. Historic Newspapers Online

Here are some databases for finding primary newspaper articles.