The NYS Historic Newspapers project provides free online access to a wide range of newspapers chosen to reflect New York's unique history. The images on their web site were scanned, processed by an optical character recognition program and converted to computer files. The contents of those files were then indexed and placed on a central server. These research resources are available for online use at no charge. Downloading a large number of files is not permitted.
NYS Historic Newspapers was created and is administered by the Northern New York Library Network in partnership with the Empire State Library Network
