Library Guides: News and Newspapers: Latin America & the Caribbean: Historical Newspapers

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The Latin American Library offers a wide array of resources to locate and consult historical newspapers with coverage of Latin America & the Caribbean.

Key Resources

Latin American Newspapers, Series 1 & 2 This link opens in a new window
The URL opens to the World Newspaper Archive's search page for the combined Latin American Newspapers Series 1 & 2 gateway page. Series 1 includes more than 35 nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American newspapers, featuring titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and elsewhere Series 2 features over 250 Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Latin American Newspapers. Featuring titles from: Belize, Brazil, Columbia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay.
Hispanic Life in America This link opens in a new window
Coverage of the Hispanic American experience from earliest times to today. Sourced from nearly 17,500 American and global newspapers, including almost 450 Hispanic American newspapers. Provides full-text searching as well as access to content by Topic, Event, and Eras in Hispanic American History.
The Tulane subscription consists of Series 1 (1704 – 1942) and Series 3 (2010 to today).

Center for Research Libraries: Newspapers
CRL has hundreds of historical newspapers from around the world available in microfilm and digital form. You'll find selections from every country of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as Spain and Portugal. Tulane affiliates can request microfilm OR digitization-on-demand via Interlibrary Loan. Email LAL@tulane.edu for assistance.

Rare Newspapers at The Latin American Library
The Latin American Library has extensive holdings of rare printed newspapers from 22 countries (c. 18th century-1930s). This inventory includes printed newspaper holdings from each country housed in the Library's Rare and Closed Stacks locations. This inventory will be updated periodically when new titles are added. Email LAL@tulane.edu to set up an appointment to consult rare newspapers.

Latin American & Caribbean Digital Primary Sources
This page is maintained by the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM). It provides access to digitized collections of primary material.

WorldCat This link opens in a new window
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Find materials in libraries around the world. Search known newspapers by title. Limit type to Serial Publications. Key subject search terms include newspapers and periodicals.

ICON Directory of Digitization Projects
ICON (International Coalition on Newspapers) page that highlights and links to past, present, and prospective digitization projects of historic newspapers.
LASER Union List of Newspapers
This list includes the LASER (Latin America South East Region) member libraries’ combined holdings of Latin American and Caribbean newspapers. A newspaper is listed only where a five-year run of the title is held by any of the libraries, where the title is a current subscription, or where the newspaper has a web version. For more complete regional holdings of individual library collections, consult the newspaper holdings lists or the catalogs and websites of the member libraries: Duke, Emory, Florida International University, University of Florida, University of Georgia, University of Miami, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Texas at Austin, Vanderbilt.

Resources by Place

Explore the tabs in this section for country- and region-specific websites with digitized historical newspapers either produced in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula or with content regarding those regions.

Archivo Histórico de Revistas Argentinas
Digitizations of magazines and periodicals representing key moments in the development of cultural journalism in Argentina, accompanied by indices and brief critical essays and articles.
Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno - Colecciones Digitales
Digitized holdings of the National Library of Argentina. Searchable by keywords and collections: books, incunables, journals and magazines, manuscripts, photographs, maps, sheet music, archives, audio, video, and publications of the library.
Hemeroteca Digital Fray Francisco de Paula Castañeda
Digital archive of newspapers of the province of Santa Fe (1911-1979), including “El Orden,” “Diario de Santa Fe,” and “El Litorial.”
Argentine Theater & Literary Periodicals
This unique collection housed at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (Berlin) is dedicated to a type of small-format periodical, containing plays, short novels and other literary texts, which used to be very popular in the Río de la Plata region during the first half of the 20th century. Besides the well-known and widely-published titles La novela semanal (1917-54), La escena (1918-33) and Bambalinas (1918-34), the collection includes numerous periodicals with a more limited circulation.
La Montaña: Periódico Socialista Revolucionario
Digitized issues of labor movement newspaper from June to September 1897.
Revistas culturales subterráneas en la última dictadura argentina
Collection of underground cultural magazines published during the Argentine dictatorship from 1976-1983.
El Mosquito
From the collections of the National Library of Argentina, the World Digital Library presents page images of El Mosquito, a weekly independent satirical newspaper (covering Jan 3, 1875-July 16, 1893).

Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira
This digital archive provides access to nineteenth and twentieth century newspapers housed at the National Library in Brazil, such as "Correio Braziliense," "Gazeta do Rio de Janeiro," "Diário Carioca," and "Correio da Manhã"
Diario de Pernambuco
The Diario de Pernambuco is acknowledged as the oldest newspaper in circulation in Latin America. The issues from 1825-1923 offer insights into early Brazilian commerce, social affairs, politics, family life, slavery, and such. Published in the port of Recife.
Estado de São Paolo Newspaper Archive
Digital archive of the newspaper Estado de São Paulo (known as Estadão) going back to 1875. Issues from 1875-1922 provided by the World Newspaper Archive. You can access the full archive with an individual subscription fee.
Folha de S. Paulo
(São Paulo, Brazil) This online archive contains issues from 1921 to the present.

Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library
CNDL provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean newspapers, gazettes, and other research materials on newsprint currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.

Eighteenth Century Journals This link opens in a new window
Contains some historical 18th century colonial newspapers from Bermuda & Jamaica. Includes rare journals printed between 1685 and 1835, illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life. Many are ephemeral, lasting only for a handful of issues, others run for several years. Topics covered include: colonial life; provincial and rural affairs; the French and American revolutions; reviews of literature and fashion throughout Europe; political debates; and London coffee house gossip and discussion.

U.S. Caribbean & Florida Digital Newspaper Project
Digitized newspapers held at the University of Florida, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, and University of the Virgin Islands.

Central American Broadsides
This collection features broadsides from the Kenneth Spencer Research Library's William J. Griffith Collection of Guatemala and Central America. Dating from the 1820s to 1922, the broadsides are primarily Guatemalan, with a smaller number from Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. Many pertain to national and local politics and include election materials, political manifestos, and government pronouncements.

Biblioteca Nacional Digital de Chile
The National Library of Chile has digitized more than 165,000 objects in its collections, in addition to "Memoria Chilena," a project consisting of 770-plus works on Chilean history and culture.
Memoria Chilena
Digital resource center of the National Library of Chile. Search and browse periodicals under FORMATO (periódico/ revista)

Hemeroteca Digital Histórica
Digitized 19th- and 20th-century periodicals from the collections of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango and Red de Bibliotecas del Banco de la República.
Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia - Hemeroteca Digital
Newspapers and magazines from the collections of the National Library of Colombia from the 18th to 20th centuries.

Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library
CNDL provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean newspapers, gazettes, and other research materials on newsprint currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.
Biblioteca Digital Cubana
Portal to digitized content for the study of Cuba. Go to HEMEROTECA section for newspapers.
Cuban Heritage Collection Periodicals
The Cuban Heritage Collection (CHC) includes thousands of titles of journals, newspapers, magazines, and newsletters published both in and outside Cuba, from colonial times to the present. The digital collection of CHC Periodicals focuses primarily on works published before 1923 that are most unique to their holdings.
Granma Archives Index
The Granma Archives Index is a searchable Spanish-language data base of articles published from 1965 to 1992 in the official daily newspaper of the Cuban Communist Party, Granma. Contact the Latin American Library to find out which issues we have and which can be requested through Interlibrary Loan.
Granma (Center for Research Libraries)
The Center for Research Libraries has digitized some of their holdings of Granma and Granma International.

Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library
CNDL provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean newspapers, gazettes, and other research materials on newsprint currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.

Haïti à la une: une anthologie de la presse haïtienne de 1724 à 1934 by Jean Desquiron
Call Number: Latin American Library - F 1923 .H29 1993
Publication Date: c. 1993
This book contains valuable information on the press in Haiti from the 18th to mid-twentieth century.

Biblioteca Digital del Patrimonio Iberoamericano (BDPI)
A gateway to digitized books, manuscripts, images, musical scores, newspapers, magazines, and sound recordings from the national libraries of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Spain, and Uruguay. Allows you to search all the libraries' collections at once and then links you out to that library's webpage.
Biblioteca Nacional de España: Hemeroteca Digital
Contains over 567 digitized magazines and journals published in Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Cuba, the Philippines, France, Italy, Morocco, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Latin American and Caribbean Periodicals
Periodicals from UCLA's International Digital Ephemera Project, c. 1890-1950.
Cultural Magazines of Latin America
Digitized cultural magazines from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela from 1880 and 1930 in the collections of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut in Berlin.

Hermeroteca Digital Nacional de Mexico
Portal to the Digital Newspaper Collection of the Biblioteca Nacional de Mexico. Contains a searchable database of millions of pages of digitised newspapers from the early 18th to the early 20th century
Historic Mexican & Mexican American Press
The Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press collection documents and showcases historic Mexican and Mexican American publications published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico from the mid-1800s to the 1970s.
El Siglo de Torreón Hemeroteca Digital
Archive of El Siglo de Torreón from 1922 to 2000.
Informador Hemeroteca Digital
Archive of Informador, an independent daily published in Guadalajara, from 1917 to present.
Diario de Colima Hemeroteca Digital
Archive of Diario de Colima from 1953 to present.
Independent & Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers
Comprising over 1,000 titles from Mexico’s pre-independence, independence and revolutionary periods (1807-1929), the newspapers in this collection provide rare documentation of the dramatic events of this era and include coverage of Mexican partisan politics, yellow press, political and social satire, as well as local, regional, national and international news.
Género en México: Fuentes para su historia
Compilation of 19th- and 20th-century digital primary sources for the study of gender in México, including the magazines El álbum de la mujer and Año internacional de la mujer.
Prensa Obrera Collection
Collection of Mexican penny press publications dating from the early 20th century at the University of Texas at Austin. A rich font of political news and commentary. Of particular interest are political cartoons and drawings, including dozens by José Guadalupe Posada.

Mercurio Peruano
Digitization of facsimile edition of one of Peru's earliest newspapers that includes issues from 1791 to 1792.

Publicações Periódicas - Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
Digitized newspapers from the extensive collections of the National Library of Portugal, searchable by title.
Portuguese-American Digital Newspaper Collections
Text-searchable archive of Portuguese-American newspapers from the 19th to 21st centuries, hosted by UMass Dartmouth.

Gaceta de Puerto Rico
La Gaceta was the official newspaper of the Spanish government in Puerto Rico. This collection includes digitized issues from 1836 to 1902.
La Correspondencia
La Correspondencia de Puerto Rico, a reflection of La Correspondencia de España, was founded by Ramón B. López in San Juan on December 18, 1890. Priced at one cent, it appealed to the general public and quickly became the largest circulating daily newspaper in Puerto Rico with a print run of 5,000 copies a day. This digital collection includes issues from 1890 to 1910.
La Democracia
La Democracia, founded and published by the Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician Luis Muñoz Rivera, was first published in Ponce in 1890. The newspaper supported Puerto Rico's liberal Autonomist Party, which sought broader rights under the Spanish Crown. This collection includes digitized issues from 1891 to 1907.
Colección Digital Puertorriqueña - Revistas
Selection of late 19th- and early 20th-century Puerto Rican periodicals, including women's literary magazines.

Biblioteca Nacional de España: Hemeroteca Digital
Contains over 567 digitized magazines and journals published in Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Cuba, the Philippines, France, Italy, Morocco, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela in the 19th and 20th centuries.

17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757 - 1817) that represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media. Published mostly in London, however some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and the American colonies, Europe, and India are represented.
British Library Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Sourced from the extensive holdings of the British Library, British Library Newspapers delivers a wide range of local and regional voices to reflect the social, political, and cultural events of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This collection illuminates diverse and distinct regional attitudes, cultures, and vernaculars, providing an alternative viewpoint to the London-centric national press. Tulane subscribes to Parts I & II only, which span 1800-1900.
Times Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
Access back issues of The Times (London) from 1785-1985.

Hispanic American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
This resource covers the Hispanic American experience from the early 18th century to 1980 as recorded by the news media. It is sourced from more than 17,000 publications, including 700 Spanish-language newspapers and periodicals.
Hispanic Life in America This link opens in a new window
Coverage of the Hispanic American experience from earliest times to today. Sourced from nearly 17,500 American and global newspapers, including almost 450 Hispanic American newspapers. Provides full-text searching as well as access to content by Topic, Event, and Eras in Hispanic American History.
The Tulane subscription consists of Series 1 (1704 – 1942) and Series 3 (2010 to today).

Chronicling America
Library of Congress digitization project including many historical newspapers published in Spanish in the continental United States as well as in Puerto Rico.

Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 1 This link opens in a new window
A digital collection of historical content pertaining to U.S. Hispanic history, literature and culture since colonial times until 1960.
Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 2 This link opens in a new window
The Latino-Hispanic American Experience: Leaders, Writers, and Thinkers covers thematic content focusing on the evolution of Hispanic civil rights, religious thought, and the growing presence of women writers from the late 19th and 20th centuries. Rare and relevant books and newspapers –including rare anarchist newspapers – are presented in their original form. Extensive manuscript collections of both organizations and individuals are included for viewing.

Independent Voices
Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals. Includes Latino series.
Palante
Palante (1970 - 1976) was a bilingual newspaper published by the Young Lords Party in New York City. Palante focused on the Puerto Rican independence movement, the oppression of Puerto Ricans and other Latinos in the United States, and global struggles for liberation.

Alternative Press Index This link opens in a new window
A database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Born of the New Left, launched in 1969 to provide access to the emerging theories and practices of radical social change. Coverage begins in 1991.

News & Newspapers: TU Library Guide
Extensive guide to searching U.S., world, and Louisiana news.

Publicaciones Periódicas del Uruguay
Archive of Uruguayan newspapers from 1800 to 1999. Searchable by title and chronology.