Comics, magazines and newspapers
2,929–2,976 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. |
|---|---|
| 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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North American (Swanton, Vt.)
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The Orangeburg Democrat (Orangeburg, S.C.)
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The Silver Lance (Crystal, Colo.)
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The Southern Aegis, and Harford County Intelligencer (Bel Air, Md.)
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The Vanceburg Sun (Vanceburg, Ky.)
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Weekly Hawk-Eye and Telegraph (Burlington, Iowa)
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The Yazoo City Whig (Yazoo, Miss.)
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The Yazoo Democrat (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??
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The Cumberland Echo (Cumberland, O. [Ohio])
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Des Arc Weekly Citizen (Des Arc, Ark.) 1867-187?
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Herald of the United States (Warren, R.I.) 1792-181?
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L'union (Nouvelle-Orléans [La.])
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The Leavenworth Advocate (Leavenworth, Kan.)
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Madison Whig Advocate (Canton, Miss.)
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The Patron of Husbandry (Columbus, Miss.)
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The Somerset Herald and Farmers' and Mechanics' Register (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852
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Tennessee Staatszeitung (Nashville, Tenn.)
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Tulean Dispatch Daily (Newell, Calif.)
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Tygart Valley News (Elkins, W. Va.)
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Wallowa County Chieftain (Enterprise, Or.)
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Bradley Beam (Bradley Field [Windsor Locks], Conn.)
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The Nome Tri-Weekly Nugget (Nome, Alaska)
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Plymouth Advertiser (Plymouth, Ohio)
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Staunton Vindicator and General Advertiser (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.)
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Stevens County Tribune (Morris, Minn.)
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The Sunday Herald and Weekly National Intelligencer (Washington [D.C.])
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The Washington Weekly Post (Washington, D.C.)
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The Arkansian (Fayetteville, Ark.)
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The Congregational Observer (Hartford, Conn.)
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Der Vaterlandsfreund (Canton, Stark County, Ohio)
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The Gazette of the State of South-Carolina (Charles-Town [S.C.])
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Goldsboro Weekly Argus (Goldsboro, N.C.) 191?-19??
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Houma Ceres (Houma, Parish of Terrebonne, La.) 1855-18??
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The News Letter (Kodiak, Alaska) 1907-19??
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The Weekly Herald (Middlesboro, Ky.)
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Ameryka W Toledo I Kuryer Clevelandski (Toledo, Ohio)
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The Bessemer Indicator (Bessemer, Colo.) 18??-1894
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Camden Journal (Camden, South-Carolina)
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The Champion (Arcadia, Fla.)
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The Chronicle-Star (Pascagoula, Miss.)
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The Enterprise (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930
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The Kentucke Gazette (Lexington [Ky.])
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The Local News (Alexandria, Va.)
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Press Bulletin (Poston, Ariz.)
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Shreveport Semi-Weekly News (Shreveport, La.) 1865-18??
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Squatter Sovereign (Atchison, Kan. Terr.)
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The Teton Peak (St. Anthony, Idaho)
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