Back Issues of Newport and other Rhode Island newspapers

Newport Public Library provides back issues of the Newport Daily News and the Newport Mercury in print and microfilm. The library has bound volumes of back issues of the Newport Daily News from 1846 to 1971, and back issues of the Newport Mercury from 1835 to1965. The bound volumes are missing some years.

The Library also owns a complete microfilmed set of back issues of the Newport Daily News, from 1846 to the present (with the most current six months available in print), and an incomplete microfilmed set of back issues of the Newport Mercury, from 1829 to 1863. These microfilms can be viewed on two microfilm readers in the Library's Sargent Special Collections Room.

The Library has created an in-house, automated index to the Newport Daily News from mid-1996 to the present. This index can only be used on Library computers in the Adult Reference area.

America's Historical Newspapers - A new online resource that allows users to explore and search early American newspapers from 1690 through 1922.  Included in this resource are:

• Newport Herald (1787-1791)
• Newport Mercury (1758-1866)
• Providence Gazette (1762-1825)

and many more Rhode Island and early American newspapers.