The Newspaper Collection contains 300 titles, ranging from single issues of American and foreign newspapers to extensive runs of early Boston and Massachusetts papers through the mid-19th century. The MHS holds unique copies of many early Boston newspapers, such as the Boston News-Letter (1704-1776), the first continuously published American paper, and James Franklin's New-England Courant (1721-1727), which includes Benjamin Franklin's first appearance in print. The MHS also holds a complete run of the Liberator (1831-1865), William Lloyd Garrison's antislavery newspaper.
Records for all newspapers held by the MHS are available in ABIGAIL.
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