Historical Headlines Collection

Composite newspaper collection at the Chicago History Museum

The collection is divided into four volumes; an inventory of issues in each volume is available below. All issues are incomplete unless otherwise noted, and some issues are facsimiles. Newspapers are organized according to date range:

Volume 1: 1861-1913

Volume 2: 1914-1937

Volume 3: 1938-1953

Volume 4: 1947-1968 (unbound issues)

All newspapers in this collection are cataloged individually. See the catalog record for more information and consult microfilm instead of fragile originals for the dates when microfilm is available.

This collection has not been digitized. However, please see the catalog records for possible information on individually digitized content. Use a blue call slip to request material, indicating the title of the paper, date, and format. The call number for hardcopy newspapers in this collection will be “Historical Headlines” and the volume number.

Collection assembled by the Chicago Historical Society from various sources.

To view, please visit or contact the Abakanowicz Research Center.

Chicago History Museum

Abakanowicz Research Center

1601 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60614-6038

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Historical Headlines Collection

Volume 1: 1861-1913:

Chicago Daily Tribune

1898:5:2 (complete), 5:13 (complete), 5:14, 5:15, 5:19; 1901:1:1 (complete), 1:23, 9:14 (complete); 1903:7:21 (complete), 8:5 (complete); 1906:4:20; 1908:6:19, 11:4 (complete); 1909:9:2 (complete), 9:7

Chicago Daily News

1898:5:7 (complete)

New York Journal and Advertiser

1898:5:8

Sunday Times-Herald

1898:5:8

Milwaukee Sentinel

1898:7:5 (complete)

Chicago Journal

1903:7:20 (complete); 1904:2:8 (complete)

Chicago Record-Herald

1905:8:30 (complete), 9:6 (complete); 1910:5:7 (complete); 1912:3:9 (complete); 1913:8:28 (complete); 1914:4:22 (complete)

Chicago Tribune

(set of 16 facsimiles of historic front pages from the Tribune - dates vary) 1933:12:25

Volume 2: 1914-1937

Chicago Daily Tribune

1914:8:2; 1918:11:11; 1923:8:3; 1927:5:23, 6:12, 6:14, 6:30; 1933:3:5, 3:8-13, 3:14 (complete), 3:15; 1935:5:28; 1936:12:11; 1937:5:13

Chicago Herald

1917:4:6

Chicago Evening Post

1926:5:12, 1927:6:7

Chicago Daily Journal

1927:6:7

Chicago Evening American

1927:6:7, 1928:10:16 (complete); 1936:12:10; 1937:5:12

Chicago Daily News

1936:12:10

Chicago Herald and Examiner

1918:11:10, 11:11 (complete); 1919:5:8 (complete); 1923:8:3, 8:9 (complete); 1927:5:23, 6:12-14, 6:30; 1928:10:16 (complete); 1937:5:15

Volume 3: 1938-1953

Chicago Daily Tribune

1939:9:1, 9:4; 1941:12:8; 1943:9:9; 1944:6:6, 8:24, 8:26; 1945:4:13, 5:7, 5:8, 8:15; 1953:6:3, 7:27; 1958:10:19; 1961:5:6

Chicago Daily News

1940:6:17; 1941:12:11; 1943:9:8; 1944:6:6, 8:23; 1945:4:13, 4:14, 8:8; 1947:11:20

Chicago Herald American

1945:4:12, 4:13, 5:2, 5:7, 8:8

Daily Times

1938:9:29 (complete)

New York Times

1945:4:13

Chicago Sun

1941:12:4 (complete), 12:8; 1945:4:13, 4:16, 5:8, 8:15, 9:2

PM New York Daily

1940:8:14 (complete)

Daily News (New York, N.Y.)

1945:4:13 (complete)

facsimiles of front pages for WWII from Chicago Daily Tribune - date unknown (dates are: 1939:9:1; 1941:12:8; 1942:5:6, 5:9, 6:6, 11:8; 1943:9:3; 1944:6:6; 1945:4:13, 5:8, 8:7, 8:15)

Time (magazine)

1939:9:11 (complete)

1939:5:1 (reprint of "Background for War" article)

Life (magazine)

1939:9:25 (complete)

Volume 4: 1947-1968 (unbound issues)

Chicago Daily Tribune

1947:6:10

Chicago's American

1963:11:22

Chicago Tribune

1967:2:5

1968:4:1

1968:4:5

1968:6:7

1968:12:31

2008:8:28

Chicago Daily News

1968:6:6

New York Times

(no date) - Warren Commission Report reprint

"Political Parties in the United States 1789-1949" by Eugene A. Hecker (monograph article printed on newsprint) - no date