Digital Resources
Newspapers
Marblehead Newspapers
According to Samuel Roads, numerous newspapers were published in Marblehead over the years:
Marblehead Register 1830-1833 Marblehead Gazette 1832 Marblehead Mercury 1848 Essex County Times 1849 Peoples Advocate 1849 Marblehead Ledger 1861-1863 Marblehead Chronicle 1868 Marblehead Messenger 1871 Essex Statesman 1881-1884 Marblehead Enterprise 1891 (Daily) Marblehead Reporter
The Museum has a bound collection of the Marblehead Gazette. Below you will find a number of scanned copies. To see more, please make an appointment (info@marbleheadmuseum.org)
Click the buttons below for scans (made possible by Standley Goodwin):
Marblehead Gazette 8/18/1832 Marblehead Ledger 12/27/1862 Marblehead Register 12/31/1831 People’s Advocate 6/2/1855
Marblehead Reporter and Marblehead Messenger Archive
“Marblehead Messenger” and “Marblehead Reporter” newspaper archive. Full-text searchable scans of Marblehead’s newspapers from 1871-1976.
The Abbot Public Library digitized their microfilm collection of Marblehead Messenger and Marblehead Reporter. The newspaper issues from 1871-1976 are full-text searchable and downloadable at http://marbleheadpl.advantage-preservation.com.
There is a second archive site (http://marblehead.advantage-preservation.com/), which provides access to newspaper issues from 1977-2017, but, because of copyright, these files are available only inside the Abbot Public Library.
The Library of Congress lists all the newspapers printed in Marblehead from 1800-1899 as follows:
- Marblehead Mercury (Marblehead [Mass.]) 1847 to 1848 [2]
- Marblehead Chronicle (Marblehead, Mass.) 1868 to 1868 [1]
- Marblehead Gazette (Marblehead, Mass.) 1832 to 1834 [1]
- Marblehead Ledger (Marblehead, Mass.) 1859 to 1862 [1]
- Marblehead Ledger (Marblehead, Mass.) 1887-18?? [1]
- Marblehead Messenger (Marblehead, Mass.) 1872 to 1979 [1]
- Marblehead Mirror (Marblehead, Mass.) 1863 to 1863 [1]
- Marblehead Register (Marblehead, Mass.) 1830 to 1833 [1]
- People’s Advocate (Marblehead, Mass.) 1848 to 1858 [1]
- Salem Advocate (Salem, Mass.) 1858 to 1861 [1]
- Surf and Spray (Nanepashemet, on the Neck [Marblehead, Mass.]) 1891-189? [1]
- The American Statesman (Marblehead, Mass.) 1882 to 1883 [1]
- The Chronicle (Marblehead, Mass.) 1868 to 1868 [1]
- The Cod (Marblehead, Mass.) 1875-19?? [1]
- The Essex County Statesman (Marblehead, Mass.) 1883 to 1884 [1]
- The Essex County Statesman and Marblehead Reporter (Marblehead, Mass.) 1881 to 1883 [1]
- The Essex Statesman (Marblehead, Mass.) 1881 to 1881 [1]
- The Essex Statesman (Marblehead, Mass.) 1881 to 1882 [1]
- The Gem (Ipswich, Mass.) 1870-18?? [1]
- The Journal of United Labor (Marblehead, Mass.) 1880 to 1889 [1]
- The Marbleheader (Marblehead [Mass.]) 1876 to 1876 [1]
- The People’s Advocate (Marblehead, Mass.) 1853 to 1858 [1]
- The People’s Advocate (Salem, Mass.) 1853 to 1858 [1]
- The People’s Advocate and Marblehead Mercury (Marblehead, Mass.) 1848 to 1853 [1]
- The People’s Advocate and Marblehead Mercury (Marblehead, Mass.) 1848-185? [1]
Land Acknowledgement
We recognize that this land was home to the Naumkeag band of the Massachusett/Pawtucket Tribes. The Marblehead Museum is committed to incorporating the study and dissemination of this land’s Native History into its mission.