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Beginning with the July 26, 1808, issue of the St. Louis Missouri Gazette, the Society’s Newspaper Collection offers researchers a wealth of information about the day-to-day lives of Missourians and the political, cultural, economic, and religious events that have influenced them. Available in 1,270 bound volumes and on over forty-one million pages of microfilm, these Missouri newspapers document events and public opinion from the state’s rural environs to its largest metropolitan areas. A dynamic collection, some three hundred current newspapers, from every Missouri county, are added to the collection each week.

• Missouri Digital Newspaper Project
• The creation and maintenance of the Missouri newspaper collection
• Newspaper indexes
• Interlibrary loan

Research

• Index to Selected Missouri Newspapers, 1808-1929

  

  Index of personal and institutional names, topics, and locations mentioned in selected nineteenth-century Missouri newspapers





• Missouri Newspapers on Microfilm at the State Historical Society

  This online resources provides a listing of every newspaper title and dates available for each title.

• Online Catalog

  Information about the Newspaper Collection holdings is also available through the Society's catalog. The catalog entries include previous titles, succeeding titles, and information about the Society’s holdings of each newspaper.

• Using newspapers for genealogical and biographical research

• Newspaper Research Request Form

  Staff will research specific one-time events such as births, deaths, marriages and the like

• Research Guides:

  • African American
  • Agricultural
  • German-language
  • Labor
  • Religious
  • Socialist
  • Temperance

Research Requests

Requests for birth, death & marriage announcements found in newspapers can be submitted online.

Please read the Research Policy before submitting a request.

Prepayment of Research Fee is required and does not guarantee success.

Research requests can be submitted by:

• Newspaper Research Request Form for births, deaths, marriages and the like
• Research Request Form for other research
• e-mail: shsresearch@umsystem.edu
• US Postal Service: The State Historical Society of Missouri, 1020 Lowry, Columbia, Missouri 65201

Policies & Procedures

Please read our policies and procedures regarding use of the Society's facilities.

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