Online newspaper archives

There are quite a few online newspapers whose archives are free to access, and some of them carry rich resources for boxing history enthusiasts. Here are just a few :

New York Times. Free prior to 1923 and after 1986. Plenty of excellent boxing archives :

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html


New York Tribune. Sample pages from this link feature day after reports from Johnson v Jeffries :

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1910-07-05/ed-1/

Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Absolute goldmine for early fighters, such as Fitzsimmons, with fight reports, build ups, personal data, training habits, interviews and more :


http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/Default/Skins/BEagle/Client.asp?Skin=BEagle&AppName=2&GZ=T&AW=1311848801296

Please add to the list if you know of any other good newspaper archives.

Not a newspaper, but it's worth mentioning you can access the full catalogue of Sports Illustrated articles and magazines:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast

Papers Past contains more than two million pages of digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals. The collection covers the years 1839 to 1945 and includes 68 publications from all regions of New Zealand.

Some excellent stuff on here, lots on Fitzsimmons.

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=TH18970329.2.22&srpos=32&e=-------10--31----0bob+fitzsimmons--