Mike
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The California Digital Newspaper Collection contains over 400,000 pages of significant historical California newspapers published from 1846-1922.
It is free and works quite well. Newspaper copy is generated into searchable text using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. Computers often have a hard time reading newspaper print, particularly for papers printed before 1900 so this isn't always a great success.
There is a nice calendar that makes it easy to find a specific issue which you can then browse through.
You can also download papers as PDFs.
It is free and works quite well. Newspaper copy is generated into searchable text using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. Computers often have a hard time reading newspaper print, particularly for papers printed before 1900 so this isn't always a great success.
There is a nice calendar that makes it easy to find a specific issue which you can then browse through.
You can also download papers as PDFs.