Old New York City newspaper scans - 1920s-40s

winter_combat_knight

hi folks, ive been browsing google for some old new york city based newspapers from the 20s to 40s, but havnt had any luck. My internet is slow too atm. anyone know of any good sites where they archive scans from that era? i need them for reference (i do illustration)

cheers folks.

Monolithic_Dome

New York Times has searchable PDF archives going back to 1851

http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?srchst=p#top

You'll get a text blurb an an option to buy a PDF:

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20A1FFC3F5415738DDDAB0994DD405B878EF1D3&scp=3&sq=election&st=p

Eat it You Nasty Pig.

Those aren't actual scans, though, just transcriptions of the articles (unless the actual PDF is different from the preview.)

OP, you're probably going to have to go to an actual library and see if they have microfilm of the era you're looking for. Luckily you want new york based papers, because lots of places will have the NYT. If you want tabloids or local/small circulation papers, you'd probably either have to go to a library in new york or a really good university/research library.

Note that the NYT's layout hasn't actually changed that much.

MKR

If you can't afford the PDFs, local libraries might have it. This might be a good place to start.