Research Guides: HIST 001N: Chinatowns: Then and Now (SC): Newspapers

Philadelphia News

Search multiple newspapers at once

ProQuest News & Newspapers
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Search for articles from American newspapers, including the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Tribune. Also includes Asian American publications from New York and California. (1800s-present)
Access World News
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Newspaper collections from NewsBank provide full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for nearly 8,000 newspapers around the globe. Database covers 1977-present.
NewspaperArchive.com
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Searches dozens of Philadelphia newspapers from the 18th-20th centuries. (Not comprehensive, but worth searching in addition to the Philadelphia Inquirer and Tribune.)

Search individual Philadelphia newspapers

Philadelphia Inquirer (1860-2001)
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Use ProQuest to find articles in the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1860-2001
Philadelphia Inquirer (1981-Present)
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Use Newsbank to find articles from the Inquirer from 1981-present.
Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001)
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Use Proquest Historical News to search for articles from the Philadelphia Tribune from 1912-2001. The Tribune is Philadelphia's longest-running African American newspaper.
Philadelphia Daily News (1978-present)
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Use Newsbank to search for articles from the Philadelphia Daily News from 1978-present.
Philadelphia Gay News (1976-present)
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Search for articles from the Philadelphia Gay News
Daily Pennsylvanian (1885-2002)
Search the University of Pennsylvania student newspaper from 1885-2002
Daily Pennsylvanian (1999-Present)
Search the Penn student newspaper from 1999-present

Chinese American Publications

Philadelphia publications

Yellow Seeds Newspaper
4 issues available (1972-1975)
Chinese-American Advocate (1892)
Scanned issue of Chinese-language newspaper published in Philadelphia (June 30, 1892)

Chinese Digest was published in Los Angeles by the China Cultural Society of America. You can search within issues to find, for example, mentions of Philadelphia.

Chinese Digest (vols 1, 3-6)
Vol. 1 (1935)
Vol. 3 (1937)-Vol. 6 (1940)
Chinese Digest (vol. 2)
Vol. 2 (1936)

The Chicago Foreign Language Press Survey provides translations of selected foreign-language newspaper articles published in Chicago from 1855-1938. Includes a small number of articles from Chinese and Filipino publications.

Chicago Foreign Language Press Survey
Translated news from foreign language publications in the Chicago area between 1855-1938. (Originally published in 1942 by the Chicago Public Library Omnibus Project of the Works Progress Administration of Illinois.)

Additional news resources

Independent Voices (JSTOR)
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Search alternative press publications from the latter half of the 20th century

Readers' Guide Retrospective
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Use this to find magazine articles published in major popular US publications like Time and Life (1900-1980)

Guide: Archival TV & Newsreels
Databases for finding TV and radio news (20th century)