Research

Library of Congress – http://www.loc.gov/index.html
THE research library of all American research libraries.

American Memory – http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
Collections of songs, maps, images, and narrative that make up the American experience.

New York Public Library Digital Gallery – http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm
Hundreds of thousands of digitized selections from the NYPL holdings, from historical maps to photographs to artwork.

Fulton History – http://www.fultonhistory.com/
Not just about the history of Fulton, NY, the website has an amazing archive of old newspaper pages from around the state.

 

Newspaper Archives

Chronicling America – http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
An online archive of American newspapers, from 1836 to 1922.

Fulton History – http://www.fultonhistory.com/
Not just about the history of Fulton, NY, the website has an amazing archive of old newspaper pages from around the state. There is a search feature, but you can also dig through the scanned newspapers individually.

New York TimesMachine – https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/
The New York Times’ online archives, aka TimesMachine. Not all articles are free to read; however, they do have a Basic Digital Access subscription that gives you access to the full archives, including a student rate.

Newspaper Archive – https://newspaperarchive.com/
A paid subscription online archive of newspapers from across the United States and around the world. There isn’t much overlap in newspapers between this archive and the next one.

Newspapers.com – https://www.newspapers.com/
Another paid subscription archive of newspapers from across the United States. It’s archive of international newspapers is limited to Australia Canada, Panama, and the British Isles (not a problem  if you are only searching for New York newspapers).  There isn’t much overlap in newspapers between this archive and the previous one.

 

“Newsies”

“Newsies the Musical” Official Site – http://www.newsiesthemusical.com

“Newsies” on IMDB – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104990/

 

New York City History

The Bowery Boys – http://theboweryboys.blogspot.com/
A highly entertaining blog and podcast about New York City history, from the early days up to recent events.

Forgotten NY – http://www.forgotten-ny.com/
Chronicling the forgotten aspects of New York City history, from street names to unusual locations.

Tenement Museum (97 Orchard Street) – http://www.tenement.org/
Notes from the Tenement Blog – http://www.tenement.org/blog/
Notes from the Tenement Blog Archive – http://tenement-museum.blogspot.com/
A fascinating museum bringing to life families who resided in the 97 Orchard Street tenement between 1863 and 1935.

News PAPER Spires – http://www.skyscraper.org/EXHIBITIONS/SPIRES/spires.htm
The virtual exhibition of an Skyscraper Museum exhibit focusing on the skyscrapers of Newspaper Row.

 

Other Sites of Interest

City Hall Park 1899 on Pinterest – http://pinterest.com/cityhallprk1899
Follow City Hall Park 1899 on Pinterest for photos of newsgirls, newsboys, and life as it was in turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century New York City.

City Hall Park 1899 on Twitter – http://www.twitter.com/cityhallprk1899
Follow City Hall Park 1899 on Twitter.

Shorpy – http://www.shorpy.com/
A blog featuring vintage photographs, named after someone from a Lewis Hine photo.

Photographs from the Chicago Daily News: Newsboys Surviving – http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/ichihtml/cdnsp2.html
A photo essay about Chicago newsboys.

The Kids Who Shouted the News – http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/03/02/theater/20120302-newsboys.html?_r=0
An interactive feature from the New York Times.