This page lists a number of report views or shortcuts to the content available in Chronicling America. These reports provide context for understanding what types of newspapers are available in Chronicling America and can be helpful in tracking data as well. More information about each report is found in each section.
Also see: Recent Additions to Chronicling America and Chronicling America Maps and Visualizations.
Newspaper content in loc.gov is refreshed approximately weekly.
How many newspaper titles, issues, and pages are currently available in Chronicling America?
How do I view a list of all newspaper history essays in Chronicling America?
The language reports provide an at-a-glance view of the multiple languages represented in the digitized newspaper full text index. You can quickly find out how many pages there are in a specific language and follow a link directly to those pages.
Chronicling America is a collection of digitized newspapers contributed by the Library of Congress and awardee institutions located across the country via the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). The awardee (contributor) reports provide an at-a-glance view of the content digitized and ingested in Chronicling America broken down by awardee institutions. You can quickly find out how many pages are available from a specific contributor and follow a link directly to those pages.
During the course of an award, NDNP awardee institutions deliver valid digital newspaper content to the Library of Congress in regular batches. More info on batches.
The "All Batches" reports provide a listing of all batches ingested into Chronicling America.
The batch shortcut links below return dynamic lists of batches ingested into loc.gov by awardee/contributor. Each list is ordered A-Z and includes the associated page count per batch.
For newspapers that were digitized from microfilm, it may be useful to search loc.gov by the microfilm reel's barcode number.
There are two ways to do this:
For example, search this reel number "00517171943": https://www.loc.gov/collections/chronicling-america/?ops=AND&qs=00517171943&searchType=advanced
2. Append "?fa=number_reel:[barcode number] to end of URL on home page of Chronam collection. e.g. https://www.loc.gov/collections/chronicling-america/?fa=number_reel:00517171943
Are you looking for a list of batches that contain a specific LCCN? Use the following URL pattern:
https://www.loc.gov/collections/chronicling-america/index/batch/?dl=page&q=sn83045462