Yellowing Journalism: A Search for Old Newspapers

Gary Price, from The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk sent along \”This NYTimes Story on a project trying to find and catalog every surviving collection of every newspaper published in the five boroughs since 1725.

According to The Encyclopedia of New York City, since 1725, when the first edition of The New-York Gazette appeared, 415 general-circulation newspapers have been published in New York City, along with 149 foreign-language papers.