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Pittsburgh Newspapers

Below are some resources for finding newspapers and newspaper articles on Pittsburgh history. If you need help with any of these resources, or with finding newspapers or newspaper articles, ask at the Hunt Library reference desk. The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (Oakland) has an excellent collection of Pittsburgh newspapers on microform.

For a listing of newspapers published in Pittsburgh, see:

Gregory, Winifred, ed. American Newspapers, 1821-1936; A Union List of Files Available in the United States and Canada. New York: The H.W. Wilson company, 1937.
HUNT REF-1 Z6951 .A498 1967

An article (9-11-11) in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette announced that Google was stopping its project to convert newspaper microfilm archives to digital form. You can still search the newspaper archives, including the Pittsburgh Post Gazette from 1790-1900s, but it is far from complete.

Pittsburgh Clipping File.
ca. 1900 to present.
Pennsylvania Department, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. File containing thousands of articles from local newspapers covering a variety of historical and current topics and personalities of the Pittsburgh area.
Google Newspaper Archive
Search or Browse issues of old newspapers. Google has since abandoned this project of digitizing old newspapers, but the ones done are still available, including many from Pittsburgh covering different time periods.

Historical Newspapers: Pittsburgh Courier, 1911-2002
1911-2002.
Search, browse and display the full text of the city editon of the Pittsburgh Courier and the New Pittsburgh Courier. The Pittsburgh Courier was "once the country's most widely circulated black newspaper with a national circulation of almost 200,000." Read more. The national edition of the Pittsburgh Courier is available HUNT MFICHE-3, 1911-1966; MFILM-3, 1966-1994.
Historical Newspapers: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 1786-2003
Includes 25 major Pittsburgh papers from 1786-2003. For content, see ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Publications. For recent issues, see Pittsburgh Post Gazette (1993-present) or Pittsburgh Post Gazette Digital Edition (last 30 days).

Pittsburg Dispatch
1880-1923
From the Library of Congress's Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website.
to search, use the Advanced Search tab and select newspaper(s) from the list offered along with any other search criteria.
Pittsburgh Catholic
Duquesne University has continuously microfilmed the Pittsburgh Catholic since its inception in 1844. To convert the Pittsburgh Catholic to digital format, Gumberg Library started with volume 1 issue 1 and will continue to digitize the newspaper from the oldest volumes to the newest volumes. Currently, the first 113 years covering from March 16, 1844 through March 7, 1957 are available by browsing or searching the full-text.
Pittsburgh Gazette
1825-1833.
HUNT MFILM-3
Continues Pittsburgh Gazette, and Manufacturing and Mercantile Advertiser
(see below); Continued by Daily Pittsburgh Gazette
Pittsburgh Gazette
July 29, 1786-May 29, 1820.
HUNT MFILM-3
Continued by Pittsburgh Gazette, and Manufacturing and Mercantile Advertiser
(see below)

Pittsburgh Newspapers (NewsBank)
Search and display article from Pittsburgh newspapers culled from the Access World News database from NewsBank. Includes the Tartan. Exact dates of coverage vary by title, most ca. 2000 - present.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
1993-present. Major daily newspaper of Pittsburgh, PA. For older content, see Historical Newspapers: Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Recent searchable page images are available in Press Reader.

Pittsburgh-Post Gazette
Link is to catalog record
Paper kept until microfilm arrives.
1978-present
HUNT MFILM-3
Pittsburgh Post Gazette Up to the past 90 days via PressDisplay
Pittsburgh Post Gazette 1993-present via Proquest
Absorbed Pittsburgh Press (see below) and continues Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette, Sun-Telegraph
For older full text content, see Historical Newspapers: Pittsburgh Post Gazette 1786-2003
Pittsburgh Post Gazette Archives Will give you citations which you can use to find full text on microfilm.
Pittsburgh Gazette, and Manufacturing and Mercantile Advertiser
v.36, new ser, no.1, June 5, 1820-1825.
HUNT MFILM-3
Continues Pittsburgh Gazette (see above); Continued by Pittsburgh Gazette (see above).

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Digital Edition
Major daily newspaper of Pittsburgh, PA. Our access to the digital edition includes the last 30 current issues/days. Most recent issues appear first. Select "Menu" in the upper left and then "Show/Hide Editions List" to get to older issues.
Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project
Search or browse the full text of Pittsburgh Jewish newspapers. The Jewish Criterion is the first of three newspapers to be digitized in the project. When completed, the digital library will include the Jewish Criterion (1895-1962), the American Jewish Outlook (1934-1962) and the Jewish Chronicle (1962-present).

Pittsburgh Press
1960-1992
HUNT MFILM-3
Absorbed by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (see above)
Pittsburgh Tribune Review
HUNT NEWSPAPR-3
Paper copy kept until microfilm arrives.
Microfilm holdings of the Pittsburgh edition: 2010 to present
Microfilm holdings of the Greensburg edition: 1995-May 2010 filed under Tribune Review. See the separate record under the title "Tribune-review" for more details.
Available Online:
Pittsburgh Tribune Review 2006-present via Proquest.
Note: Paper went all digital December 1, 2016.
Smart Business Pittsburgh
ca. 1994-present.