Where things stand

At SNEWPapers we are building the most accurate extraction pipeline for historical newspapers that the world has ever seen. To prove it, we are in the process of extracting the entirety of the Library of Congress' Chronicling America data.

Searchable components (last updated November 11, 2026).

6,190,325

Issue coverage: 2.1%
Issues released: 62,768
Pages in those issues: 301,208
Newspaper titles: 2,891
States and territories: 52
Years covered: 1736–1963

We only release entire issues, once every one of their pages has passed through our pipeline. For now we're working through the English-language issues of under 20 pages or less: Chronicling America shows how much of its collection is in English, but what that chart doesn't show is that about 90% of its issues have 20 pages or less. The Issue coverage # above is the % of English-language issues that have been fully processed (regardless of page count).

Advertisements are segmented like everything else, but kept out of the searchable index, so they never crowd your results. They make up about a third of everything we cut from the pages, and the counts above leave them out.

The pace is set by compute cost rather than by what the pipeline can handle, so the more people who sign up, the faster we get to full coverage. Roughly speaking, every 200 annual subscriptions fund another 1,000 pages a day, and if enough people sign up, we'll buy some massive machines to go even faster.

Components released into the index, per week

Weeks start Monday. An issue enters the index only once every page has passed. *Partial week, still filling.

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	Components
Aug 31	5,298
Sep 7	143,719
Sep 14	146,323
Sep 21	421,052
Sep 28	412,266
Oct 5	481,366
Oct 12	468,733
Oct 19	429,949
Oct 26	1,662,809
Nov 2	1,702,089
Nov 9*	316,721

Searchable components by decade, by type

Domestic news
Notice
Local news
Foreign news
Editorial
Obituary
Story
Other

Decade of publication, the 7 main types with the rest under Other*.

*Other (27.0%, 25 types, largest first): Filler, Personal ad, Auction, Commercial, Sports report, Letter to editor, Society, Wedding, Literary, Poem, Shipping, Cost of goods, Reward, Runaway, Train schedules, Theater listings, Birth announcement, Weather report, Review, Recipe, Epigraph, Errata, Radio listings, Crossword puzzle, TV listings.

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	Domestic news	Notice	Local news	Foreign news	Editorial	Obituary	Story	Other	Total
1730s	349	140	23	2,776	14	165	60	927	4,454
1740s	132	120	1	754	4	18	4	322	1,355
1750s	1,730	1,818	178	3,309	80	86	78	1,588	8,867
1760s	6,439	8,198	663	14,284	361	527	355	7,150	37,977
1770s	11,970	16,844	1,198	23,139	967	1,186	501	15,598	71,403
1780s	7,648	15,334	408	7,188	1,201	509	669	12,799	45,756
1790s	19,487	44,785	1,316	29,923	5,219	1,679	1,090	29,220	132,719
1800s	23,122	53,171	1,070	30,118	10,227	3,735	1,669	48,082	171,194
1810s	40,467	71,895	1,465	27,785	12,288	5,229	2,647	68,329	230,105
1820s	45,943	64,051	2,731	24,807	12,825	11,654	6,738	74,463	243,212
1830s	62,338	72,569	3,867	17,690	25,816	12,900	8,349	82,527	286,056
1840s	66,876	66,665	8,322	14,981	28,357	10,901	8,511	84,394	289,007
1850s	76,691	71,370	19,840	14,436	24,319	9,020	9,724	88,928	314,328
1860s	103,932	73,389	33,565	12,088	28,770	8,337	7,838	87,999	355,918
1870s	96,537	64,542	104,109	20,863	28,298	9,263	11,523	127,377	462,512
1880s	125,982	54,737	161,163	23,705	35,853	9,507	15,879	146,489	573,315
1890s	128,453	49,291	201,502	25,510	41,044	12,420	17,901	168,569	644,690
1900s	101,338	41,771	201,014	20,014	28,363	10,346	11,657	147,314	561,817
1910s	77,617	38,637	187,525	20,492	20,189	7,641	9,033	136,088	497,222
1920s	62,554	31,635	157,965	12,469	13,457	5,966	6,825	109,383	400,254
1930s	48,352	23,845	132,525	7,585	10,634	5,153	5,210	79,269	312,573
1940s	41,143	25,584	94,348	8,250	9,294	5,332	4,517	77,418	265,886
1950s	36,761	26,796	72,976	5,363	7,170	5,272	3,498	65,161	222,997
1960s	9,710	7,735	19,951	1,544	1,817	1,357	1,012	13,582	56,708

For comparison, see Chronicling America's own coverage over time at the Library of Congress.

Years covered, by state

1–3 issues a year
4–7 issues a year
8–14 issues a year
15+ issues a year

Each band is a run of years with released issues, shaded by issues per year; gaps are years not yet processed or not held by Chronicling America. Sorted by earliest year.

Show data

State	First	Last	Years held	Titles	Issues	Components
Virginia	1736	1963	193	95	9,766	559,217
Pennsylvania	1751	1920	96	80	2,471	162,519
New Hampshire	1756	1917	135	27	3,064	190,724
New Jersey	1765	1927	75	37	333	58,392
Massachusetts	1770	1957	97	22	857	84,528
Connecticut	1776	1963	126	55	1,842	211,479
New York	1776	1916	83	27	1,839	152,168
Rhode Island	1777	1962	117	69	2,588	183,923
Kentucky	1787	1922	96	61	1,482	124,250
West Virginia	1790	1949	134	99	2,004	207,350
Delaware	1798	1963	111	47	744	90,595
Maine	1798	1926	125	22	1,337	157,605
District of Columbia	1800	1935	120	54	3,974	267,947
Ohio	1812	1963	143	147	2,125	226,450
Illinois	1819	1963	123	56	938	96,497
North Carolina	1820	1963	137	89	1,589	163,102
Mississippi	1823	1963	124	152	1,027	96,823
Arkansas	1830	1959	123	99	2,254	206,895
Alabama	1831	1902	19	9	159	17,144
Indiana	1833	1963	114	48	658	85,129
Iowa	1836	1921	73	67	481	66,218
Michigan	1836	1963	97	43	427	73,312
South Carolina	1836	1927	92	85	1,447	141,578
Vermont	1836	1922	87	57	1,032	149,359
Louisiana	1837	1922	74	74	688	70,703
Maryland	1839	1963	124	38	687	86,022
Missouri	1839	1922	78	59	379	59,791
Hawaii	1840	1917	45	15	328	32,711
Wisconsin	1840	1932	93	44	459	84,355
Minnesota	1849	1963	105	72	849	179,555
Texas	1849	1942	76	43	597	98,901
Tennessee	1850	1922	69	77	869	95,607
California	1851	1945	84	39	1,501	180,513
Washington	1853	1961	103	60	561	72,137
Kansas	1854	1959	88	59	394	87,536
Nebraska	1856	1959	88	37	317	56,599
Utah	1859	1927	48	21	187	37,997
Nevada	1863	1944	71	46	1,114	97,565
Arizona	1864	1963	99	92	1,499	191,148
Georgia	1864	1963	88	35	1,290	164,901
Idaho	1864	1924	55	56	264	32,669
Montana	1864	1963	93	84	716	130,900
Oregon	1864	1922	57	48	473	64,244
Wyoming	1867	1930	63	38	418	62,296
North Dakota	1873	1937	63	34	325	72,106
South Dakota	1875	1924	49	44	301	43,230
Florida	1879	1963	74	36	660	85,647
New Mexico	1879	1922	44	38	244	42,030
Colorado	1880	1926	47	54	505	79,111
Oklahoma	1881	1922	33	19	221	33,170
Alaska	1898	1963	66	78	2,081	165,895
Virgin Islands	1934	1963	14	4	403	9,782

Counts are components of the searchable index: articles, notices and other items, excluding advertisements and damaged scans. Numbers refresh every few hours.