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Holdings of Maine Newspaper Master Microfilm
The Maine Newspaper Project has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a digitization project involving the imaging of master microfilm reels of historic Maine newspapers. The list below includes details of master microfilm that we know of. If you are aware of master microfilm holdings that are not on this list, please contact us to let us know.
Title | Place of Publication | County | Years Published | Location | Years Held |
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Adventurer | New Sharon | Franklin | 1881 | UMF | 1881 |
Advocate of Freedom | Brunswick | Cumberland | 1838-1841 | Bowdoin | 1838-1841 |
Age (weekly, triweekly 1837-) | Augusta | Kennebec | 1832-1833, 1836-1845, 1847-1849, 1854-1856, 1861 | UMF | 1849 - 1852; 1856; 1859 |
Alfred Advocate | Portland | Cumberland | 1915-1916 | CRL | 1915-1916 |
American Sentinel | Damariscotta | Sagadahoc | 1854-1893 | Maine Maritime | 1855-1860 |
Aroostook Pioneer | Presque Isle | Aroostook | 1857-1933 | UMPI | 1857 - 1887 |
Aroostook Republican | Caribou | Aroostook | 1880-1888 | UMPI | 1887 - 1929 |
Bangor Daily Commercial | Bangor | Penobscot | 1872-1949 | CRL | 1872-1949 |
Bangor Daily News | Bangor | Penobscot | 1900- | CRL | 1900-1970 |
Bar Harbor Times | Bar Harbor | Hancock | 1887-1916 | CRL | 1887-1916 |
Bath Daily Morning Times | Bath | Sagadahoc | 1858-1862 | Maine Maritime | 1857-1878 |
Bethel Courier | Bethel | Oxford | 1858-1861 | Bethel HS | 1858-1861 |
Bethel News | Bethel | Oxford | 1895-1908 | Bethel HS | 1895-1908 |
Bowdoin Orient | Brunswick | Cumberland | 1921-1971 | Bowdoin | 1921-1976 |
Bridgton Record | Bridgton | Cumberland | 1915-1916 | CRL | 1915-1916 |
Brunswick Record | Brunswick | Cumberland | 1902-1967 | HCL | 1917 |
Brunswick Telegraph | Brunswick | Cumberland | 1853-1903 | Bowdoin | 1853-1903 |
Casco Bay Breeze | Casco Bay | Cumberland | 1901-1902, 1905-1909, 1911-1917 | Maine Historical | 1903-1917 |
Christian Intelligencer | Gardiner | Kennebec | 1827-1934 | Gardiner | 1827-1934 |
Cold Water Fountain [Renamed Col Water Fountain and Gardiner News-Letter 1847] | Gardiner | Kennebec | 1844-1846, 1847-1848 | Gardiner | 1844-1848 |
Daily Patriot | Farmington | Franklin | 1853-1863 | UMF | 1863-1863 |
Daily Reporter Journal | Gardiner | Kennebec | 1893-1913 | Gardiner | 1893 - 1913 |
Daily Sentinel and Times | Bath | Sagadahoc | 1862-1869 | HCL | 1867 |
Deer Isle and Stonington Press | Deer Isle | Hancock | 1898-1927 | MSL | 1898 - 1901 |
Deer Isle Gazette | -Deering | -Cumberland | 1891-1898 | MSL | 1927 - 1937 |
Deer Isile Messenger | Westbrook | Cumberland | 1905-? | MSL | 1882 - 1898 |
Deering News | Deering | Cumberland | 1891-1915 | Maine Historical | 1891-1915 |
Eastern Argus | Portland | Cumberland | 1803-1863 (with gaps) | UMF | 1803-1876 |
Eastern Freeman | Ellsworth | Hancock | 1853-1854 | CRL | 1853-1854 |
Eastern Mail | Waterville | Kennebec | 1847-1863 | HCL | 1855 |
Eastern Times and Northern Tribune | Bath | Sagadahoc | 1850-1862 | Maine Maritime | 1857-1857 |
Ellsworth American | Ellsworth | Hancock | 1855-1920 | CRL | 1855-1920 |
Enterprise-Chronicle | South Berwick | York | 1877-1920 | HCL | 1873 |
Farmington Chronicle | Farmington | Franklin | 1857-1919 (with gaps) | UMF | 1845-1918 |
Fountain and Journal | Gardiner | Kennebec | 1850-1853 (with gaps) | Gardiner | 1850- 1853 |
Franklin Journal | Farmington | Franklin | 1882-1886, 1912-1919 | UMF | 1882-1886. 1912+ |
Franklin Patriot | Farmington | Franklin | 1858-1864 | UMF | 1858-1864 |
Franklin Register | Farmington | Franklin | 1840-1843 | UMF | 1840-1843 |
Gardiner Home Journal | Gardiner | Kennebec | 1858-1892 | Gardiner | 1858-1892 |
Gardiner Independent | Gardiner | Kennebec | 18??-?? | Gardiner | 1900 & 1902 |
Gardiner Journal (weekly) | Gardiner | Kennebec | 1918-1930 | Gardiner | 1918 - 1930 |
Glenwood Valley Times | Vienna | Kennebec | 1855-57 | UMF | 1855-1857 |
Gospel Banner | Augusta | Kennebec | 1842-1897 | HCL | 1838-1897:[Gaps] |
Hallowell Gazette | Hallowell | Kennebec | 1814-1827, 1853-1871 | HCL | 1821 |
Herald | Farmington | Franklin | 1880-1882 | UMF | 1880-1882 |
Houlton Times/Aroostook Times | Houlton | Aroostook | 1917-1933 (with gaps) | Cary | 1857-1922 |
Kennebec Reporter | Gardiner | Kennebec | 1866-1892 | Gardiner | 1866 - 1891 |
Le Messager | Lewiston | Androscoggin | 1880-1966 | MSL | 1880-1916 |
Liberty Standard | Hallowell | Kennebec | 1841-1848 | Bowdoin | 1841-1849 |
Lincoln Telegraph | Bath | Sagadahoc | 1836-1846 | Maine Maritime | 1838-1840 |
Little Blue times | Farmington | Franklin | 1856 | HCL | 1856 |
Loyal Sunrise | Presque Isle | Aroostook | 1863-1867 | UMPI | 1857 - 1887 |
Maine Farmer | Augusta | Kennebec | 1833-1850; 1852-1900 | HCL | 1872 |
Maine State press | Portland | Cumberland | 1862 | HCL | 1863- 1866:[Gaps] |
Maine statesman | Lewiston | Androscoggin | 1897-1899 | HCL | 1897-1899:[Gaps] |
Mount Desert Herald | Bar Harbor | Hancock | 1881-1891 | CRL | 1881-1891 |
Musical Adventurer | New Sharon | Franklin | 1854 | UMF | 1854 |
North Star | Caribou | Aroostook | 1872-1890 | UMPI | 1857 - 1887 |
Northern Home Journal | Gardiner | Kennebec | 1854-1858 | Gardiner | 1854-1858 |
Northern Tribune (triweekly) | Bath | Sagadahoc | 1849-? | Maine Maritime | 1851-1855 |
Ossipee Valley News | Limerick | York | 1882 | HCL | 1882 |
Oxford County Advertiser | Norway | Oxford | 1882-1902(gaps) | Bethel HS | 1827-1933 |
Oxford County Citizen | Norway | Oxford | 1908-1935 | Bethel HS | 1908-1935 |
Oxford Democrat | Paris | Oxford | 1833-1933 | Bethel HS | 1833-1852: 1854-1933 |
Oxford Register | Norway | Oxford | 1872-1875, 1876 | NYPL | 1872-1875[Gaps] |
Portland Advertiser | Portland | Cumberland | 1841-1843 | CRL | 1831-1863 |
Portland Transcript | Portland | Cumberland | 1837-1910 | HCL | 1884- 1897:[Gaps] |
Portland Tribune | Portland | Cumberland | 1842-1845 | HCL | 1841. |
Portland Tribune | Portland | Cumberland | 1842-1845 | NYPL | 1842-1845 |
Progressive Age | Belfast | Waldo | 1854-1889 | HCL | 1854-1857 [Gaps] |
Reporter Journal | Gardiner | Kennebec | 1893-?? | Gardiner | 1893 - 1913 |
Rockland Gazette | Rockland | Knox | 1851-1882 | HCL | 1876 |
Rumford Citizen | Rumford | Oxford | 1906-1908 | Bethel HS | 1906-1908 |
Somerset Reporter | Skowhegan | Somerset | 1885-1909 | CRL | 1885-1891, 1907 |
South Berwick Life | South Berwick | York | 1891 | HCL | 1891 |
The Eclectic | Portland | Cumberland | 1850-1853 | HCL | 1850 |
Union and Journal | Biddeford | York | 1858-1882; 1864 | HCL | 1864 |
Weekly Mirror | Bath | Sagadahoc | 1849-1855 | Maine Maritime | 1854-1857 |
Wilton Record | Wilton | Franklin | 1881-1891 | UMF | 1881 - 1891 |
Wilton Sentinel | Wilton | Franklin | 1896 | UMF | 1896 |
Zion’s Advocate | Portland | Kennebec | 1828-1920 | CRL | 1828-1897 |
Zion’s Advocate | Portland | Kennebec | 1828-1920 | NYPL | 1833-1908 [Gaps] |
Notes:
CRL = Center for Research Libraries
HCL = Harvard College Libraries - runs very short
UMF = University of Maine Farmington