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Collecting historic newspapers is a fun and rewarding hobby. You can find almost any major event in the headlines of a newspaper, whether it's political, wars, or even the sinking of the Titanic. Unlike other collectibles, historic newspapers will really give you the feeling of connecting with that time or era.
What makes a historic newspaper valuable?
- Headline
- Rarity and availability
- Condition
- Circulation of the paper
Here at BuyHistoricNewspapers.com you can shop and buy historic newspapers from the years of pre-1900, 1900-1939, 1940-1969, 1970-now. You will also find historic newspapers from wars, The Titanic, and more.
Newspapers - written publications with local or overarching news, information, advertising, cartoons, sports scores, and business data are usually bought and sold in a day's time. So why do ordinary folks collect them? Why would people stockpile the transient, changeable, temporal events of the day? Many people have reasons for historic newspaper collecting as a hobby.
Many people want a broad world-view so they request, collect, and categorize newspapers from dozens of countries, provinces, and states. Others want to see how events are unfolding from multiple perspectives, and others want to have a broader, more complete view of history that they can look back on. There is no clearer, finer way to discover an unfiltered view of the past than through the primary sources - especially with the emotional, hastily-composed, fervent, opinionated rhetoric of the day intact.
Newspapers have held historic, unprecedented importance in America especially, and they have helped shaped political events, elections, wars, laws, injustices, and more. Clarence Brigham, in his History and Bibliography of American Newspapers 1690 to 1820, says that if all other printed sources of history were to disappear except one that the one with the " most value to posterity would be a file of an important newspaper."
Collecting historic newspapers is also fun for children when they go to show & tell, and newspapers can sit in glass cases in the office or framed on the wall. They're excellent decorative and conservation pieces.
Imagine going into your room and seeing newspapers from the War of 1812, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and so on. Because newspaper collecting is not an established hobby, the prices are cheap, and investors are starting to realize the importance of collecting such things. That brings up another good reason to collect: investment for the future. Rare stamps sell for thousands, but old historic newspapers go for hundreds.
There are a steady stream of collectors of Civil War-era newspapers because the progression to the Civil War is a matter of dispute, tension, and high stakes. The general literacy rate of the armies, and the myriad of photographic imagery are all very interesting to modern collectors of Civil War memorabilia, artifacts, and information. Indeed, because of our free press, American newspapers are abundant, numerous, and highly factual.
Historic newspaper collecting as a hobby is not confined to the past, a certain country, or region. Historic newspapers are uniquely endowed with pure views into the real world - uncolored by historians, revisionism, theories, ideologies, or, to conspiracy theorists - modern-day brain-washing by corporate elites. By getting a broad view of the world, it's easier to put together a real, accurate picture of what's going on. Historic newspaper collecting has a lot of benefits.
1834 NEWPORT RI Newspaper - Great Historical Piece! |
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270 NEWSPAPERS! 1888, HUGE HISTORIC FRANKLIN, INDIANA |
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NEWSPAPER - MAY 23, 1863 by HISTORIC IMPRESSIONS |
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NEWSPAPER - JANUARY 20, 1866 by HISTORIC IMPRESSIONS |
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NEWSPAPER - APRIL 15, 1861 by HISTORIC IMPRESSIONS |
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NEWSPAPER - JUNE 29, 1812 by HISTORIC IMPRESSIONS |
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NEWSPAPER - AUGUST 16, 1814 by HISTORIC IMPRESSIONS |
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