Comics, magazines and newspapers
2,593–2,640 of 4,692, free to read, from the world's archives.
Where these come from, and who sees what
Every page is shown from the archive that keeps it: the Internet Archive, Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and, where this server is set up for them, Europeana and Trove. Nothing is copied to this site. Each work's page names its archive, links to the work there, and states its licence or status as the archive does.
Comics and magazines carry no age ratings, and Golden Age comics and the pulps are full of horror, crime, violence and racist caricature, so each work is placed cautiously from what its archive says about it. Erotica is left out altogether.
| Little Ones | Funny-animal comics and nursery magazines. |
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| Kids | Comics and magazines made for children, such as St. Nicholas and Child Life, unless they deal with ghosts, monsters, spies or fights. |
| Tweens | Humour and teen comics, science, computing, sport and hobby magazines, true stories and education. |
| Teens | Everything else, including the pulps and anything we cannot tell about; horror, crime, war, westerns, superheroes and romance go no lower; every newspaper, since historic papers carry graphic reports and racist content. |
| Adult | Works with racist caricature (named, or a series known for it, such as The Spirit's Ebony White), wartime comics of 1941–1946 and jungle comics, which commonly carried it, each with a note saying so; the true-crime magazines and the "weird menace" pulps; sexual themes and gore. |
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Shreveport Daily News (Shreveport, La.)
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Vernon Parish Democrat (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?
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The White Mountain Echo and Tourist's Register (Bethlehem, N.H.) 1878-191?
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The Ebensburg Alleghanian (Ebensburg, Pa.)
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The Hydraulic Press (North San Juan, Nev. Co., Cal.) 1858-18??
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The Middlebury Register and Addison County Journal (Middlebury, Vt.)
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The Mineral Argus (Maiden, Mont.)
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Minnesota Weekly Times (St. Paul, Minn.)
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New Orleans Daily Creole (New Orleans [La.]) 1856-18??
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The Suburban Citizen (Washington, D.C.)
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The Lambertville Press (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???
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Saint Croix Union (Stillwater, Minn. Territory)
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The Smoky Hill and Republican Union (Junction City, Kan.)
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The Star of Pascagoula (Pascagoula, Miss.)
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The West Virginia Digest (Charleston, W. Va.)
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The Empire County Argus (Coloma, El Dorado County, Cal.)
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The Mountain Democrat (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.)
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New-Hampshire Gazette, Or, State Journal and General Advertiser (Portsmouth, N.H.)
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Orangeburg Times (Orangeburg, S.C.)
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The Penny Press (Cincinnati [Ohio])
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The Phenix (Bristol, R.I.)
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Roanoke Daily Times (Roanoke, VA)
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The Spirit of the Age (Woodstock, Vt.)
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Thibodaux Minerva (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858
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Alaska Forum (Rampart, Alaska)
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The Billings Herald (Billings, Mont.)
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El Hispano-Americano (Belen, Nuevo México) 19??-19??
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The Jewish South (Richmond, Va.)
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The Labor Advocate (Providence, R.I.)
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The Polk County Republican (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?
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The True Democrat (Little Rock, Ark.)
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Weekly Council Bluffs Bugle (Council Bluffs, Iowa)
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The Evansville Journal (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?
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French Broad Hustler (Hendersonville, N.C.)
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The New-Hampshire Gazette and General Advertiser (Portsmouth [N.H.])
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Rhode Island American, Statesman and Providence Gazette (Providence [R.I.])
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Brownlow's Knoxville Whig (Knoxville, Tenn.)
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Charlotte Messenger (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??
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Cleveland County Herald (Rison, Ark.) 1888-Current
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The Indianapolis Sentinel (Indianapolis, Ind.)
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Navajo Times (Window Rock, Ariz.)
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Watertown Leader (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.)
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Yukon Valley News (Rampart, Alaska)
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The Cape County Herald (Cape Girardeau, Mo.)
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The Evening Republican (Wilmington, Del.)
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The New Daily Appeal (Carson City, Nev.)
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The Union Democrat (Sonora, Calif.)
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