The contents include runs of over a hundred different periodicals from between 1852 and 2004 including:
In total, there are about six thousand bound volumes and eleven thousand individual and bundled items. These include first printings of work by numerous famous authors such as H. L. Mencken, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Robert Frost and Rudyard Kipling. The collection is an excellent archive of high quality rotogravure photographs which appeared in these periodicals. Other unusual formats include the first crosswords, needlepoint patterns, sheet music and full color reproductions of paintings of the period.5
About the American Newspaper Repository https://web.archive.org/web/20071225150429/http://home.gwi.net/~dnb/former_newsrep.html ↩
Weeks, Linton (May 5, 2001), "Tiger on the Paper Trail", The Washington Post, pp. C01, retrieved June 28, 2022 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2001/05/05/tiger-on-the-paper-trail/9b8df6a9-ed64-46c5-8c36-66d437a652ad/ ↩
Guide to the American Newspaper Repository Collection, 1852–2004, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/americannewspaperrepository// ↩
Bonner, Paul (January 6, 2006), Collection donated to Duke a gold mine of newspaper history., The Herald-Sun (Durham, North Carolina) http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-12257564_ITM ↩