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is there a way to browse old newspaper archives for free? (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago by RiotDoll@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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hey so, i wanna go down a kind of deranged rabbit hole, as i sometimes wanna do, and i need to be able to browse local nyc news through the 1960s, but doing that is gated behind a lot of paywalls as far as i can tell

i really don't have the fucking funds to drop on archive access, so i'm wondering how people get around this?

I happen to live in a different big metro but i can't imagine their archives are either easy to access nor worth the hassle of travelling 2 hours via transit to check out, but i guess i will if i have to.

hoping hexbear has solutions

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[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

New York Historic Newspapers

A bunch of states have sites like this for research purposes - I've used Colorado's and Virginia's before, too. New Jersey doesn't have a good free one last I checked.

Edit - You may also be interested in this novel. Some occasional anti-communist nonsense (the author had an uneasy relationship with the East German government, and the main character is an emigre) but the daily grind of "New York newspapers in the 1960s" is a huge part of the book. (Anna's Archive, but it's very long so you might prefer a physical copy.)