Use this form to search the Hackenbruch Newspaper Collection. The database includes records for 2,247 individual newspaper issues dating from 1685 to 1990. See tips below for help on formulating searches.

Enter search terms in one or more of the above fields. If you use multiple fields, results will be returned for those items which contain all of the terms you enter ("AND" logic). You may also use the Boolean operators "AND", "OR", "NOT" within any of the fields, but the operators must be in ALL CAPS to distinguish them from occurrences of these words in the data (NB: there are no "stopwords") and parentheses for grouping Boolean expressions are not supported; rather expressions will be evaluated according to standard rules for evaluating operator precendence.

Truncation or wildcard operators are not supported; the search engine matches exact stings only. An example: to search for occurrences of "ship, ships, shipping" enter simply "ship" or "ship OR ships OR shipping".

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