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Historical New York TImes

The New York Times (1851-2004) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Digitizing The New York Times, from the first issue in 1851-2004, involved scanning, digitizing, zoning and editing over 3.4 million pages from microfilm into digital files.