Newspapers
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The Last Seen Project continues to search African-American newspapers (1865-1920) for Information Wanted ads. The newspapers that have been searched are identified here.
- Alabama 36
- Daily Selma Messenger (Selma, AL)1
- Eufala Daily Times (Eufala, AL)1
- Huntsville Gazette (Huntsville, AL) 4
- Montgomery Daily Advertiser (Montgomery, AL)2
- Southern Republican (Demopolis, AL)2
- The Huntsville Journal (Huntsville, AL) 19
- The Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, AL)3
- The Selma Press (Selma, AL)1
- The Selma Times and Messenger (Selma, AL)1
- The Southern Argus (Selma, AL)1
- Union Springs Herald (Union Springs, AL)1
- Arkansas 13
- California 62
- Canada 9
- Colorado 2
- Dakota Territory 1
- Delaware 1
- Florida 2
- Georgia 16
- Illinois 132
- The Broad Ax (Chicago, IL) 4
- The Chicago Defender (Chicago, IL) 8
- The Chicago Weekly Tribune (Chicago, IL) 8
- The Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago, IL)1
- The Jacksonville Daily Journal (Jacksonville, IL)1
- The Moline Review-Dispatch (Moline, IL)1
- The State Capital (Springfield, IL)3
- The Western Appeal/The Appeal: A National Afro-American Newspaper (St. Paul and Minneapolis, MN; Chicago, IL) 106
- Indiana 128
- Iowa 12
- Kansas 37
- Abilene Weekly Reflector (Abilene, KS)1
- Afro-American Advocate (Coffeyville, KS)3
- Atchison Daily Free Press (Atchison, KS)1
- Atchison Weekly Champion (Atchison, KS)1
- Baptist Times (Garnett, KS)3
- Fort Scott Weekly Monitor (Fort Scott, KS)1
- Herald of Kansas (Topeka, KS)1
- Lawrence Daily World (Lawrence, KS)1
- Leavenworth Daily Conservative (Leavenworth, KS)2
- Osawatomie Graphic (Osawatomie, KS)1
- The Commercial Gazette (Wyandotte, KS)1
- The Commonwealth (Topeka, KS)1
- The Council Grove Republican (Council Grove, KS)1
- The Daily Kansas Tribune (Lawrence, KS)2
- The Kansas City Gazette (Kansas City, KS)1
- The Kansas City Globe (Kansas City, KS)1
- The Oswego Independent (Oswego, KS)1
- The Topeka Plaindealer (Topeka, KS) 10
- The Twice-a-Week Independent (Coffeyville, KS)1
- The Weekly Call (Topeka, KS)1
- Topeka Weekly Leader (Topeka, KS)1
- Topeka Weekly Times (Topeka, KS)1
- Kentucky 16
- Daily Evening Bulletin (Maysville, KY)1
- Daily Public Ledger (Maysville, KY)1
- The Bourbon News (Paris, KY)1
- The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)2
- The Evening Bulletin (Maysville, KY)2
- The Hickman Courier (Hickman, KY)1
- The Interior Journal (Stanford, KY)1
- The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY)4
- The Owensboro Monitor (Owensboro, KY)2
- The Richmond Climax (Richmond, KY)1
- Louisiana 2128
- Baton Rouge Tri-Weekly Gazette & Comet (Baton Rouge, LA)1
- New Orleans Republican (New Orleans, LA)7
- New Orleans Tribune (New Orleans, LA)2
- Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)2079
- The Black Republican (New Orleans, LA)20
- The Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA)7
- The Donaldsonville Chief (Donaldsonville, LA)1
- The Louisiana Democrat (Alexandria, LA)1
- The New Orleans Daily Democrat (New Orleans, LA)1
- The Ouachita Telegraph (Ouachita, LA)1
- The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)1
- The South-Western (Shreveport, LA)1
- The Times-Democrat (New Orleans, LA)1
- The Weekly Louisianian (New Orleans, LA)5
- Maryland 51
- Massachusetts 30
- Michigan 1
- Minnesota 2
- Mississippi 12
- American Citizen (Canton, MS)1
- Natchez Weekly Democrat (Natchez, MS)1
- The Daily Mississippian (Jackson, MS)1
- The Greenville Times (Greenville, MS)1
- The Magnolia Gazette (Magnolia, MS)1
- The Vicksburg Daily Herald (Vicksburg, MS)2
- The Weekly Clarion (Jackson, MS)2
- The Weekly Mississippi Pilot (Jackson, MS)1
- Times-Promoter (Hernando, MS)1
- Yazoo City Herald (Yazoo City, MS)1
- Missouri 29
- Daily Missouri Republican (St. Louis, MO) 3
- Mexico Weekly Ledger (Mexico, MO)1
- Richmond Democrat (Richmond, MO)1
- St. Louis Globe-Democrat (St. Louis, MO)3
- St. Louis Palladium (St. Louis, MO)9
- St. Louis Post and Dispatch (St. Louis, MO)1
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO)2
- The Andrew County Republican (Savannah, MO)1
- The Butler Weekly Times (Butler, MO)1
- The Kansas City Sun (Kansas City, MO) 1
- The Kansas City Times (Kansas City, MO)1
- The St. Joseph Weekly Gazette ( St. Joseph, MO)1
- The St. Louis Republic (St. Louis, MO)2
- The St. Louis Republican (St. Louis, MO)1
- The State Journal (Jefferson City, MO)1
- Montana 2
- Nebraska 3
- New Mexico 1
- New York 71
- Buffalo Commercial Advertiser (Buffalo, NY)2
- Frederick Douglass' Paper (Rochester, NY) 2
- National Anti-Slavery Standard (New York, NY)5
- The Anglo-African (New York, NY)17
- The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, NY)1
- The Evening Post (New York, NY)1
- The New York Age (New York, NY)8
- The New York Freeman (New York, NY)2
- The New York Globe (New York, NY)5
- The New York Herald (New York, NY)24
- The New York World (New York, NY)1
- The Sun (New York, NY)3
- North Carolina 28
- Asheville Daily Citizen (Asheville, NC)1
- Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, NC)1
- Daily Newbernian (New Bern, NC)1
- New Bern Weekly Journal (New Bern, NC)1
- Newbern Journal of Commerce (New Bern, NC)1
- Tar Heel (Elizabeth City, NC)1
- The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, NC)1
- The Daily Dispatch (Wilmington, NC)2
- The Daily News (Raleigh, NC)1
- The Daily North-Carolina Standard (Raleigh, NC)1
- The Daily Standard (Raleigh, NC)2
- The Era (Raleigh, NC)1
- The Evening Post (Wilmington, NC)1
- The Evening Post (Wilmington, NC)1
- The Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, NC)1
- The Herald of the Union (Wilmington, NC)1
- The North Carolinian (Elizabeth City, NC)1
- The Pinehurst Outlook (Pinehurst, NC)1
- The Raleigh Register (Raleigh, NC)1
- The Star of Zion (Charlotte, NC)1
- The Tri-Weekly Standard (Raleigh, NC)3
- The Weekly Standard (Raleigh, NC)1
- The Weekly Star (Wilmington, NC)1
- The Wilmington Herald (Wilmington, NC)1
- Ohio 53
- Cleveland Daily Leader (Cleveland, OH)1
- Elyria Independent Democrat (Elyria, OH)1
- Fayette County Herald (Washington Court House, OH)1
- Gallipolis Journal (Gallipolis, OH)2
- The Cincinnati Daily Star (Cincinnati, OH)2
- The Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, OH)6
- The Cleveland Gazette (Cleveland, OH) 28
- The Colored Citizen (Cincinnati, OH) 3
- The Daily Empire (Dayton, OH)1
- The Highland Weekly News (Hillsboro, OH) 7
- The Stark County Democrat (Canton, OH)1
- Oklahoma 1
- Pennsylvania 1011
- Greenville Advance Argus (Greenville, PA)1
- Harrisburg Telegraph (Harrisburg, PA)8
- Juniata Sentinel and Republican (Mifflinville, PA)1
- Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)2
- Pittsburgh Dispatch (Pittsburgh, PA)2
- Public Ledger (Philadelphia, PA)3
- Public Opinion (Chambersburg, PA)1
- Reading Times and Dispatch (Reading, PA)1
- The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)987
- The Daily Republican (Monongahela City, PA)1
- The National Gazette and Literary Register (Philadelphia, PA)1
- The Philadelphia Times (Philadelphia, PA)1
- The Star and Enterprise (Newville, PA)1
- Weekly Journal (Mercersburg, PA)1
- South Carolina 25
- Beaufort Republican (Beaufort, SC)1
- Keowee Courier (Pickens, SC)1
- South Carolina Leader (Charleston, SC)14
- The Abbeville Press and Banner (Abbeville, SC)1
- The Charleston Daily News (Charleston, SC)2
- The Daily Phoenix (Columbia, SC)1
- The New South (Port Royal, SC)2
- The Newberry Herald (Newberry, SC)1
- The Newberry Weekly Herald (Newberry, SC) 1
- The Watchman and Southron (Sumter, SC)1
- Tennessee 100
- Brownlow's Knoxville Whig (Knoxville, TN)3
- Chattanooga Daily Times (Chattanooga, TN)1
- Clarksville Weekly Chronicle (Clarksville, TN)2
- Daily Press and Herald (Knoxville, TN)2
- Knoxville Daily Chronicle (Knoxville, TN)1
- Knoxville Daily Tribune (Knoxville, TN)1
- Knoxville Press and Messenger (Knoxville, TN)1
- Maryville Republican (Marysville, TN)1
- Memphis Daily Appeal (Memphis, TN)4
- Memphis Daily Post (Memphis, TN)1
- Memphis Evening Post (Memphis, TN)1
- Nashville Union and American (Nashville, TN)2
- Public Ledger (Memphis, TN)3
- Republican Banner (Nashville, TN)4
- The Bolivar Bulletin (Bolivar, TN)2
- The Colored Tennessean (Nashville, TN) 37
- The Columbia Herald (Columbia, TN)1
- The Daily American (Nashville, TN)1
- The Daily Memphis Avalanche (Memphis, TN)2
- The Nashville American (Nashville, TN)1
- The Nashville Daily Union (Nashville, TN)3
- The Nashville Globe (Nashville, TN)22
- The Tennessean (Nashville, TN)1
- The Union Flag (Jonesborough, TN)2
- The Weekly American Union (Chattanooga, TN)1
- Texas 21
- Brenham Weekly Banner (Brenham, TX)1
- Fort Worth Gazette (Fort Worth, TX)1
- The Austin Weekly Statesman (Austin, TX)1
- The Dallas Express (Dallas, TX)11
- The Free Man's Press (Galveston, TX)1
- The Galveston Daily News (Galveston, TX)1
- The Houston Daily Post (Houston, TX)2
- The Independent (Houston, TX)1
- The Item (Dallas, TX)2
- Vermont 3
- Virginia 375
- Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, VA)16
- Clinch Valley News (Jeffersonville, Tazewell Court House, VA)1
- Peninsula Enterprise (Accomack Court House, VA)1
- Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)309
- Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA)7
- Staunton Daily Leader (Staunton, VA)1
- Staunton Spectator (Staunton, VA)3
- The Daily Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 23
- The Daily State Journal (Alexandria, VA)2
- The Norfolk Post (Norfolk, VA)1
- The Progress-Index (Petersburg, VA)1
- The Reformer (Richmond, VA)1
- The Richmond Times (Richmond, VA)2
- True Southerner (Hampton, VA)7
- Washington, D.C. 108
- Evening Star (Washington, DC)25
- National Republican (Washington, DC)5
- New Era (Washington, DC)4
- New National Era (Washington, DC)18
- People's Advocate (Washington, DC)5
- The Colored American (Washington, DC)8
- The National Era (Washington, DC)1
- The National Tribune (Washington, DC)32
- The Washington Bee (Washington, DC) 5
- The Washington Times (Washington, DC) 5
- West Virginia 3
- Wisconsin 17