Front pages

These are front pages from the day of an event or the day after, nearly all dated 1930 or earlier, from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America. They are shown as a record of how the news was covered, not as the source of facts. Wire stories of the day carry early casualty counts, unattributed claims and the prejudices of their time, and the page for each one says what this archive does not take from it.

Each link goes to one scan, with the paper, the date, the headline as printed, the source URL and the rights basis. 58 of the 65 pages are dated 1930 or earlier and are public domain. The last group, from 1931 and January 1947, rests on the Library of Congress’s no-known-restrictions statement for those titles, on the editor’s decision of 12 October 2026. A page filed on the same date from a later or inner page is listed on its own record, not here.

Pages from 1890, 1891 and 1903 use language about Italians that this archive does not quote. The 1891 pages report the lynching of eleven men at the New Orleans parish prison. The Cheyenne and Savannah pages themselves report that the jury had acquitted six defendants and returned a mistrial on three; the Richmond page’s headline calls the men “convicted,” which those two pages contradict.