The NJ Digital Newspaper Project Team are pleased to announce that all of the papers digitized through three rounds of funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities National Digital Newspaper Program are available online at Chronicling America (The site’s full list of NJ papers, with more detailed information about issues, can be found here).
The NJ Digital Newspaper Project started in 2016 with the aim of digitizing issues of New Jersey’s historical newspapers. Thanks to the work of our amazing project team and guidance of our wonderful advisory board, we now have approximately 300,000 pages shared online.
The project team compiled posts featuring content from the newspapers that will continue to be added to this blog from time to time.
Below is the updated list of newspapers digitized for this project. For an explanation of how to search the papers in Chronicling America, see Finding and Using New Jersey Newspapers in Chronicling America.
- The Perth Amboy Evening News (1903-1924)
- The Sunday Tatler and Jersey City Express (1884-1886), and The Jersey City News (1889-1906), and Sunday Morning News (1886-1891)
- The West-Jersey Pioneer (1852-1884) and Bridgeton Pioneer (1884-1917)
- The Evening Star and Newark Advertiser (1907-1908), The Star and Newark Advertiser (1908) [Also two issues of morning editions], The Newark Star and Newark Advertiser (1909), The Newark Evening Star and Newark Advertiser (1909-1912), and the Newark Evening Star and Newark Advertiser (1909-1916)
- Gloucester County Democrat (1878-1912)
- Morris County Chronicle (1877-1914)
- Pleasantville Weekly Press (1892-1911) and The Pleasantville Press (1912-1927)
- The Semi-Weekly News (1881-1882), The News (1882-1886) and The Mount Holly News (1891-1919)
- Five Mile Beach Journal (1898-1906) and Five Mile Beach Weekly Journal (1906-1923)
- Penn’s Grove Record (1882-1923)
- The Lambertville Press (1858-1861)
- The Lambertville Record (1872-1926)
- Palisadian (Cliffside) (1906–1927)
- Elizabeth-town Gazette (1818-1821)
- Elizabeth Daily Monitor (1868-1875)
- The Daily Free Press (Trenton) (1876)
- The Jamesburg Record (1882-1904)
- The Advance (Jamesburg) (1888-1905, 1921)
- The Evening Telegram (Camden) (1887-1888)
- The Voice of Labor (Camden) (1915-1917)
- The New Jersey Leader (Newark) (May 29, 1920)
- Passaic City Record (1890-1907)
- Passaic City Record and Freeman’s Magazine (1890) (2 issues)
- Monmouth Weekly Herald (Freehold) (1854-1860), Monmouth Herald & Inquirer (1863-1865) and The Monmouth Inquirer (1865-1926)
- The Press (Belleville) (1890-1894)
- Ventnor News, (1907-1926) and The West Atlantic City News (1926-1927)
- The Weekly Exponent (Peapack-Gladstone) (1904-1926) and Peapack-Gladstone Exponent (1926-1927)
- Hackettstown Herald (1883)
- Beverly Banner (1880-1927)
- The Sentinel (Trenton) (1880-1882)
The NJ Digital Newspaper project has been quite a marathon and the team is incredibly proud of the work to bring these newspapers online.
