Collection of Old Newspapers and Periodicals, 1978 - 2009
Collection Overview
Title: Collection of Old Newspapers and Periodicals, 1978 - 2009
Record Series: MsC-24
Record Group:
Manuscripts
Creator: Various sources
Date: 1798-2009
Extent: 11 boxes (18.979 linear feet)
Repository: Special Collections and University Archives, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa
Language: Materials entirely in English.
Information for Users
Accessing the Collection:
No restrictions. Materials are open for research.
Physical Access: Boxes 1 through 4 are located in Manuscripts Oversized 1.
Immediate Source of Acquisition:
The University Archives acquired these miscellaneous newspapers and periodicals, mostly by gift, in many small transactions beginning in about 1975.
Sensitive Materials Statement: Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy or similar laws, and the Iowa Open Records Law (see Iowa Code § 22.7). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of Northern Iowa assumes no responsibility.
Preferred Citation: [Identification of item] in the Collection of Old Newspapers and Periodicals, 1798-2009, Manuscript Series Record MsC-24, [folder number], University Archives, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa.
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Scope and Content
The newspapers record significant historical events--such as wars and natural disasters--but, overall, they have no particular subject orientation.
Inventory
**Please note that Boxes 1-4 are located in the Manuscripts Oversized section of the shelf range**
Box 1
Folder 1: The Time Piece, 1798
Folder 2: The Woman's Journal, May 14, 1870; June 4, 1870; June 25, 1870; December 3, 1870; February 11, 1871; February 25, 1871; March 4, 1871; June 24, 1871; July 8, 1871; July 29, 1871; November 18, 1871;
Folder 3: Gleason's Pictorial, 1851 & 1853
Folder 4: Mason City Express, December 8, 1870
Folder 5: Chicago Weekly Journal, September 28, 1881
Folder 6: Supplement, paper unknown, date unknown (an account of the death of President Garfield)
Folder 7: The Youth's Companion, December 18, 1890
Folder 8: The New York Herald, April 15, 1865 (assassination of Lincoln)
Folder 9: Charleston Daily Courier, January 17, 1863
Folder 10: The Daily Express, April 28, 1865
Folder 11: The Franklin Repository, April 19, 1865
Folder 12: Chattanooga Daily Gazette, October 12, 1864
Folder 13: The Log Cabin, September 12, 1840
Folder 14: The Cape Argus, April 28, 1868
Folder 15: The Bangor Daily Evening Times, April 9, 1863
Folder 16: Weekly Gazette and Comet, January 28, 1863
Folder 17: The Stars and Stripes, January 24, 1919; March 22, 1918; January 3, 1919; October 25, 1918;
Folder 18: The Japan Times, December 1, 1966
Folder 19: The Evening Post, March 7, 1865; March 10, 1865; March 17, 1865; March 21, 1865; March 24, 1865; April 7, 1865; April 11, 1865;
Folder 20: Boston Gazette and Country Journal, March 12, 1770 (late 19th century facsimile)
Box 2
Folder 1: Chicago Daily Tribune, November 3, 1948
Folder 2: The Little Corporal, January, March, June, November, 1866; January, 1867
Folder 3: The Cedar Falls Record, August 13, 1983 (final issue of this paper) (2 copies)
Folder 4: The Cedar Falls Citizen, December 8, 1984 (first issue) (2 copies)
Folder 5: The Stars and Stripes (Mediterranean), April 15, 1944; July 29, 1944
Folder 6: The Record, January 23, 1976 (Progress edition)
Folder 7: The Record, January 20, 1978 (Progress edition)
Folder 8: Waterloo Courier, January 22, 1978 (Progress edition)
Folder 9: Insight '88, February 23, 1988 (Supplement to the Telegraph Herald)
Folder 10: The Christian Science Monitor, April 22, 1937 (Coronation issue, King George VI of England)
Folder 11: The Illustrated London News, June 26, 1858
Folder 12: The Press, Philadelphia, Monday, November 17, 1862; Saturday, November 22, 1862; Thursday, November 27, 1862; Saturday, December 27, 1862; Saturday, October 20, 1863
Folder 13: The Independent Whig, September 3, 1809
Folder 14: Ruthven Free Press, Ruthven, Iowa, Saturday, October 27, 1883
Folder 15: United States Saturday Post, April 6, 1844
Folder 16: The Saturday Evening Post, August 25, 1849
Folder 17: The Saturday Evening Post, December 21, 1861
Box 3
Folder 1: Des Moines Register Centennial Edition, July 24, 1949 (2 copies)
Folder 2: Cedar Falls Record Centennial Edition, June 27, 1952 (1 copy plus 2 copies of Section 2)
Folder 3: Cedar Falls Record State Centennial Edition, June 27, 1946 (2 copies of Section 2 only)
Folder 4: Los Angeles Examiner, April 13, 1945 (F. D. Roosevelt death)
Folder 5: The Stars and Stripes, August 2, 1918; September 27, 1918; December 27, 1918; January 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, 1919; February 7, 14, 21, 28, 1919; March 7, 14, 1919; May 8, 1945
Folder 6: The Washington Post, June 8, 9, 1944; May 8, 9, 1945
Folder 7: The Daily Mail, June 6, 1944; May 7, 9, 1945; August 11, 13, 14, 15, 1945; December 31, 1945
Box 4
Folder 1: Apollo 11--Special published by the New American Library; copyright 1969
Folder 2: The Baltimore News-Post, August 8, 14, 1945; November 25, 26, 1963; December 1, 1963
Folder 3: The Catholic Review, January 29, 1965; February 5, 1965
Folder 4: Democrat and Chronicle, November 23, 24, 25, 26, 1963
Folder 5: Daily Record, November 22, 25, 1963
Folder 6: Des Moines Sunday Register, November 24, 1963
Folder 7: Kennedy and His Family in Pictures, 1963Life, November 29, 1963; December 6, 1963Post, December 14, 1963
Folder 8: Waterloo Daily Courier, November 22, 1963
Folder 9: Iranian Newspapers from Dorothy Grant: Kayhan International, November 24, 1963
Folder 10: Cedar Falls Daily Record, March 29, 1944
Folder 11: The A. E. F. University News, March 22, 1919
Folder 12: The Black Panther, February 7, 1970
Folder 13: Iowa Newspapers from World War I
Folder 14: United States Telegraph, March 8, 1827
Folder 15: The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 25, 1948
Folder 16: Life Magazine, May 14, 1945 (V-E celebration)
Folder 17: Life Magazine, April 19, 1968 (Martin Luther King, Jr., assassination)
Note: Boxes 5, 6, and 7 contain military newspapers from Middle East combat zones, 2004-2005.
Box 5
Folder 1: Scimitar, July 1, 15, 29, 2005
Folder 2: Air Force Times, August 8, 2005
Folder 3: Army Times, August 15, 2005
Folder 4: Stars and Stripes, Mideast edition, December 2004-June 2005 (with gaps)
Box 6
Folder 1: Stars and Stripes, Mideast edition, June 2005-July 2005 (with gaps)
Box 7
Folder 1: Stars and Stripes, Mideast edition, July 2005-September 2005 (with gaps)
Box 8
Folder 1: The Des Moines Register, February 21, 1962 (John Glenn orbits the Earth)
Folder 2: Minneapolis Morning Tribune, November 23, 1963 (John Kennedy assassination)
Folder 3: The Saturday Evening Post, December 14, 1963 (John Kennedy in memoriam)
Folder 4: The Des Moines Register, June 8, 1968 (Robert Kennedy assassination)
Folder 5: The Des Moines Register, July 21, 1969 (first man on the moon)
Folder 6: Clippings, July-August, 1972 (Fischer-Spassky chess match)
Folder 7: The Des Moines Register, October 5, 1979 (Pope visits Iowa)
Folder 8: The Des Moines Register, December 9, 1987 (Cold War)
Folder 9: The Des Moines Register, December 10, 1987 (Cold War)
Folder 10: The Des Moines Register, November 10, 1989 (Berlin Wall comes down)
Folder 11: Des Moines Sunday Register, February 24, 1991 (Kuwait liberation)
Folder 12: The Courier, August 19, 1991 (Russian communism)
Folder 13: Des Moines Sunday Register, August 22, 1993 (Midwest flood)
Folder 14: The Des Moines Register, November 20, 1997 (Iowa's 7 wonders)
Folder 16: The Des Moines Register, December 31, 1999 (new millennium, 2 copies)
Box 9
Folder 1: The Des Moines Register, January 1, 2000 (new millennium, 2 copies)
Folder 2: The Des Moines Register, January 1, 2000 (new millennium, 2 copies)
Folder 3: The Courier, August 20, 2001, sections E and F (UNI, 125 years)
Folder 4: The Courier, September 11, 2001 (Pentagon and World Trade Center attacks)
Folder 5: The Des Moines Register, September 12, 2001 (Pentagon and World Trade Center attacks)
Folder 6: The Courier, September 12, 2001 (Pentagon and World Trade Center attacks)
Folder 7: The Des Moines Register, September 13, 2001 (Pentagon and World Trade Center attacks)
Folder 8: The Des Moines Register, September 14, 2001 (Pentagon and World Trade Center attacks)
Folder 9: The Des Moines Register, September 15, 2001 (Pentagon and World Trade Center attacks)
Folder 10: Des Moines Sunday Register, September 16, 2001 (Pentagon and World Trade Center attacks)
Folder 11: Des Moines Sunday Register, September 16, 2001 (Pentagon and World Trade Center attacks)
Folder 12: Des Moines Sunday Register, September 16, 2001 (Pentagon and World Trade Center attacks)
Folder 13: The Courier, September 3, 2005 (Hurricane Katrina)
Folder 14: The Atlantic, December, 2007 (Obama)
Folder 15: Cedar Falls Times, May 31, 2008 (Parkersburg tornado)
Folder 16: The Courier, June 10, 2008 (Flood)
Folder 17: The Courier, June 11, 2008 (Flood)
Folder 18: The Des Moines Register, June 11, 2008 (Flood)
Folder 19: The Des Moines Register, June 12, 2008 (Flood)
Folder 20: The Courier, June 12, 2008 (Flood)
Folder 21: The Des Moines Register, June 13, 2008 (Flood)
Folder 22: The Courier, June 13, 2008 (Flood)
Folder 23: The Des Moines Register, June 14, 2008 (Flood)
Folder 24: The Courier, June 14, 2008 (Parkersburg tornado)
Folder 25: Cedar Falls Times, June 14, 2008 (Flood)
Folder 26: The Des Moines Register, June 15, 2008 (Flood)
Folder 27: Des Moines Sunday Register, June 15, 2008 (Flood)
Folder 28: The Courier, June 15, 2008 (Flood)
Box 10
Folder 1: The Des Moines Register, June 16, 2008 (Flood)
Folder 2: The Des Moines Register, June 17, 2008 (Flood)
Folder 3: The Courier, June 17, 2008 (Flood)
Folder 4: The Courier, June 29, 2008 (Flood)
Folder 5: The New Yorker, November 17, 2008 (Obama)
Folder 6: Time, November 17, 2008 (Obama)
Folder 7: The Des Moines Register, January 20, 2009 (Obama inauguration)
Folder 8: The New York Times, January 21, 2009 (Obama inauguration)
Folder 9: The Wall Street Journal, January 21, 2009 (Obama inauguration)
Folder 10: The Des Moines Register, January 21, 2009 (Obama inauguration)
Folder 11: The Courier, January 21, 2009 (Obama inauguration)
Folder 12: Time, February 2, 2009 (Obama inauguration)
Folder 13: The New York Times, June 29, 2012 (health care)
Gifts of Phil Hatlem, 2013
- Folder 14: Waterloo Courier, January 4, 1990 (UNI defeats University of Iowa in basketball)
- Folder 15: Waterloo Courier, March 8, 1990 (UNI wins AMCU basketball tournament; advances to NCAA tournament)
- Folder 16: Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 17, 1990 (UNI defeats Missouri in NCAA basketball tournament)
- Folder 17: Waterloo Courier, March 18, 1990 (UNI defeats Missouri in NCAA basketball tournament)
- Folder 18: Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 18, 1990 (NCAA basketball tournament coverage)
- Folder 19: Waterloo Courier, March 19, 1990 (UNI basketball team returns to Waterloo from NCAA tournament)
Gifts of Jim Kelly
- Folder 20: WAVES Newsletter, February 1946
- Folder 21: WAVES Newsletter, March 1946
Folder 22: Fort Dodge Messenger and Chronicle, November 22, 1963 (John F. Kennedy assassination)
Folder 23: Fort Dodge Messenger and Chronicle, November 23, 1963 (Oswald killed the President)
Folder 24: Fort Dodge Messenger and Chronicle, November 25, 1963 (Farewell to President Kennedy)
Folder 25: Life magazine, vol. 1, no. 1, November 23, 1936
Box 11
Folder 1: Des Moines Register, August 22, 1993, section FC (special flood section)
Folder 2: The Daily Courier (Connellsville, Pennsylvania), September 30, 1943 (World War II news)
Folder 3: The Daily Gazette (Connellsville, Pennsylvania), November 17, 1944 (World War II news)
Folder 4: The Daily Courier (Connellsville, Pennsylvania), May 8, 1945 (Germany surrenders)
Folder 5: The Daily Courier (Connellsville, Pennsylvania), June 6, 1944 (D-Day invasion of European continent)
Folder 6: The Daily Courier (Connellsville, Pennsylvania), August 15, 1945 (Japan surrenders)
Folder 7: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 15, 1945 (Japan surrenders)
Folder 8: Pittsburg Sun-Telegraph, August 15, 1945 (Japan surrenders)
Processing Information
Collection processed by Archivist Gerald Peterson; updated, January 12, 2016 (GP); last updated by Library Associate Dave Hoing, October 2017. Linear feet count updated on August 9, 2017.