Comics, magazines and newspapers
3,601–3,648 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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Mining Journal (Middlesborough, Ky.)
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The National Prohibitionist (Chicago, Ill.)
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The New Age (Butte, Mont.) 1902-190?
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Northern Light (Unalakleet, Alaska)
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The Organizer (Oxford, Miss.) 1845-18??
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The Owosso Times (Owosso, Mich.) 18??-1882
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The Recorder, Or, Lady's and Gentleman's Miscellany (Richmond, Va.)
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Republican Gazette (Concord, N.H.)
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Southeast Arkansas Farmer (McGehee, Arkansas) 1941-????
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The Trinity Times (Weaverville, Cal.) 1854-185?
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True Democrat (Little Rock [Ark.])
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Washington Grit (Washington City [D.C.])
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The Wilmingtonian (Wilmington, Del.)
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Wochenblatt Des Westboten (Columbus, Ohio)
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Arkansas Democratic Banner (Little Rock [Ark.])
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The Banner (Abbeville, S.C.)
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Blount County Democrat (Maryville, Tenn.)
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Central Journal (Kosciusko, Mi. [i.e. Miss.]) 1844-18??
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The Cody Enterprise (Cody, Big Horn County, Wyo.) 1???-1910
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The Comet (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??
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Congregational Record and New Hampshire Journal (Concord, N.H.)
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Du Buque Visitor (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory)
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The Mountain Cove Journal and Spiritual Harbinger (Mountain Cove, Va. [W. Va.])
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Saturday Morning Courier (Lincoln, Nebraska)
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian (St. Johnsbury, Vt.)
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Weekly New Oregon Plain Dealer (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa)
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The Fool-Killer (Boomer, N.C.)
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Jessen's Weekly (Fairbanks, Alaska)
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The New Era (Sauk Rapids, Min. [i.e. Minn.])
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New Era (Washington, D.C.)
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The New-York Journal, and Weekly Register (New-York [N.Y.])
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Painesville Journal (Painesville, Ohio)
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Piney Woods Planter and Amite Union Literary Reflector (Liberty, Miss.)
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The Saturday Press (Minneapolis, Minn.)
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The Sweetwater Forerunner (Sweetwater, Tenn.)
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Watson's Weekly Jeffersonian (Atlanta, Ga.)
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The Woodville Republican, and Wilkinson Advertiser (Woodville, Miss.) 1853-18??
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The Freeman (Fremont [Ohio])
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Hawaii Holomua (Honolulu)
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Hot Springs Post (Hot Springs, Alaska)
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The Minnesotian (St. Paul, Minn. Territory)
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Mississippi Democrat (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1875-1???
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The Shreveport Weekly News (Shreveport, La.)
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South-Eastern Independent (McConnelsville, Ohio)
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The Southern Argus (Baxter Springs, Cherokee County, Kan.) 1891-1???
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Weekly Nome Industrial Worker (Nome, Alaska)
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West Feliciana Sentinel (St. Francisville, La.)
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