Urban Renewal : City Directories & Newspapers

For access to newspapers outside Philadelphia, see this guide to American newspapers.

Searchable fulltext of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Images, advertisements, and classified ads are not provided
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[Van Pelt Library Current Periodicals: recent issues].

Searchable fulltext of the Philadelphia Daily News
Images, advertisements, and classified ads are not provided.

Click the link to see online sources for the Jewish Exponent. There are multiple links for Proquest Historical Newspapers because of gaps in coverage-- you can click on any of them to search within all available dates.

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Library at the Katz Center, AP2 .J495 Oversized, 1887- 1939
Library at the Katz Center, Microfilm AP2 .J4952, 1887- 1998

Full text of Philadelphia's leading African-American newspaper online.
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[Van Pelt Library Microforms: News 487], 1912 to present.
[Van Pelt Library Current Periodicals Desk], latest 2 months

Most recent year available online.
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Lippincott Library Microforms: Film cont. 110], Mar. 29, 1982 to Sept. 23, 1984.
[Lippincott Library Microforms: Business Collection], Nov. 19, 1984 to Aug. 18, 1995
[Lippincott Library Current Periodicals], latest 2 years.

Selected clippings from the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, Philadelphia's highest circulation newspaper for much of its run.