Kansas Newspapers

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Resources for Kansas Newspapers
The Kansas State Historical Society holds one of the largest newspaper collections in the United States. They have almost every newspaper that was printed in Kansas (well over 61,000 volumes) and more than 12,000 out-of-state-volumes. These papers are in the Newspaper and Census Division, and many are on microfilm and available through interlibrary loan. The Family History Library has not collected copies of Kansas newspapers.


 * A useful guide to Kansas materials is History of Kansas Newspapers: 1854-1916 (Topeka, Kansas: Kansas State Historical Society, 1916;

Kansas Historical Society search form

Digital Issues Online
NewspaperArchive.com ($) has a large collection of Kansas newspapers online. This database is sometimes free at libraries under the name AccessNewspaperArchive.

Web Sites
http://www.50states.com/news/kansas.htm