Collection of Old Newspapers. 3 linear feet.
The library has acquired these miscellaneous newspapers by gift and purchase in several small transactions since about 1975. The newspapers tend to record significant historical events but they have no particular subject orientation.
The Time Piece, 1798
The Woman's Journal, May 14, 1870; June 4, 1870; June 25, 1870; December 3, 1870; February 11, 1871; February 25, 1871; March 4, 1871; June 24, 1871; July 8, 1871; July 29, 1871; November 18, 1871;
Gleason's Pictorial, 1851 & 1853
Mason City Express, December 8, 1870
Chicago Weekly Journal, September 28, 1881
Supplement, paper unknown, date unknown (an account of the death of President Garfield)
The Youth's Companion, December 18, 1890
The New York Herald, April 15, 1865 (assassination of Lincoln)
Charleston Daily Courier, January 17, 1863
The Daily Express, April 28, 1865
The Franklin Repository, April 19, 1865
Chattanooga Daily Gazette, October 12, 1864
The Log Cabin, September 12, 1840
The Cape Argus, April 28, 1868
The Bangor Daily Evening Times, April 9, 1863
Weekly Gazette and Comet, January 28, 1863
The Stars and Stripes, January 24, 1919; March 22, 1918; January 3, 1919; October 25, 1918;
The Japan Times, December 1, 1966
The Evening Post, March 7, 1865; March 10, 1865; March 17, 1865; March 21, 1865; March 24, 1865; April 7, 1865; April 11, 1865;
Boston Gazette and Country Journal, March 12, 1770 (late 19th century facsimile)
Chicago Daily Tribune, November 3, 1948
The Little Corporal, January, March, June, November, 1866; January, 1867
The Cedar Falls Record, August 13, 1983 (final issue of this paper) (2 copies)
The Cedar Falls Citizen, December 8, 1984 (first issue) (2 copies)
The Stars and Stripes (Mediterranean), April 15, 1944; July 29, 1944
The Record, January 23, 1976 (Progress edition)
The Record, January 20, 1978 (Progress edition)
Waterloo Courier, January 22, 1978 (Progress edition)
Insight '88, February 23, 1988 (Supplement to the Telegraph Herald)
The Christian Science Monitor, April 22, 1937 (Coronation issue, King George VI of England)
The Illustrated London News, June 26, 1858
The Press, Philadelphia, Monday, November 17, 1862; Saturday, November 22, 1862; Thursday, November 27, 1862; Saturday, December 27, 1862; Saturday, October 20, 1863
The Independent Whig, September 3, 1809
Ruthven Free Press, Ruthven, Iowa, Saturday, October 27, 1883
United States Saturday Post, April 6, 1844
The Saturday Evening Post, August 25, 1849
The Saturday Evening Post, December 21, 1861
Des Moines Register Centennial Edition, July 24, 1949 (2 copies)
Cedar Falls Record Centennial Edition, June 27, 1952 (1 copy plus 2 copies of Section
2)
Cedar Falls Record State Centennial Edition, June 27, 1946 (2 copies of Section 2 only)
Los Angeles Examiner, April 13, 1945 (F. D. Roosevelt death)
The Stars and Stripes, August 2, 1918; September 27, 1918; December 27, 1918; January 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, 1919; February 7, 14, 21, 28, 1919; March 7, 14, 1919; May 8, 1945
The Washington Post, June 8, 9, 1944; May 8, 9, 1945
The Daily Mail, June 6, 1944; May 7, 9, 1945; August 11, 13, 14, 15, 1945; December 31, 1945
The Baltimore News-Post, August 8, 14, 1945; November 25, 26, 1963; December 1, 1963
The Catholic Review, January 29, 1965; February 5, 1965
Democrat and Chronicle, November 23, 24, 25, 26, 1963
Daily Record, November 22, 25, 1963
Des Moines Sunday Register, November 24, 1963
Kennedy and His Family in Pictures, 1963
Life, November 29, 1963; December 6, 1963
Post, December 14, 1963
Waterloo Daily Courier, November 22, 1963
Iranian Newspapers from Dorothy Grant: Kayhan International, November 24, 1963
Cedar Falls Daily Record, March 29, 1944
The A. E. F. University News, March 22, 1919
The Black Panther, February 7, 1970
Iowa Newspapers from World War I
The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 25, 1948