Dubuque Newspapers in Google News Archive

Here's a list of some Dubuque, Iowa newspapers, approximately in reverse chronological order, which can still be accessed via Google News Archive.

Coverage is not complete, and many issues do not appear to be searchable by keyword, but if you have a specific date you might be able to find articles by browsing to those issues.

To find obituary dates, try the THonline.com Obituary Archive Search.

For tips and tricks, see How to Find Dubuque Obituaries Online and Who Can Use the Telegraph Herald Digital Archive.


The Telegraph-Herald
22,552 issues
Aug 17, 1903 - Dec 31, 2004

The Telegraph-Herald and Times-Journal
1,500 issues
Aug 1, 1919 - May 19, 1935

Dubuque Telegraph-Herald
1,207 issues
Oct 27, 1901 - Dec 20, 1931

Dubuque Daily Telegraph
293 issues
Jan 1, 1901 - Oct 27, 1901

Dubuque Daily Herald
4,897 issues
Sep 28, 1866 - Dec 31, 1900

Dubuque Sunday Herald
1,024 issues
Feb 15, 1885 - Apr 17, 1898

Dubuque Herald
4,973 issues
Jan 1, 1860 - Feb 14, 1885

Daily Dubuque Herald
222 issues
Oct 21, 1868 - Jul 12, 1869

Dubuque Democratic Herald
489 issues
Sep 10, 1863 - Sep 10, 1865

Daily Express and Herald
576 issues
Nov 17, 1855 - Jun 30, 1859

Weekly Express and Herald
61 issues
Oct 22, 1856 - Dec 30, 1857

Dubuque Weekly Observer
18 issues
Jul 1, 1854 - Nov 3, 1854

Iowa News
48 issues
Jun 3, 1837 - Jun 16, 1838

Researching a Historic Property

Have you ever wanted to find out more about your historic home or property?  On Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. Dave Johnson and Wally Wernimont from the City of Dubuque Planning Services Office will be presenting a program on researching a historic property.  The program will be held in the 3rd Floor Aigler Auditorium from 7:00-8:00 p.m. at Carnegie-Stout Public Library.  The program will take you through a step-by-step approach for finding more information about your home or other properties.

Dubuque's Haunted History by Richard A. Barker

Instead of telling you about a book I have enjoyed reading, I am going to tell you about a book I am anxious to read. Dubuque’s Haunted History by Richard A. Barker will be published on February 14, 2011 by Arcadia Publishing.

Barker is a local author and principal investigator for Big Muddy Ghost Hunters in Dubuque. Mike Gibson from the Center for Dubuque History at Loras College wrote the preface and provided many of the photographs used in the book. Arcadia is the same company that published the James Schaffer/John Tigges pictorial books on Dubuque history.

Instead of looking for valentines this year, I’ll be looking for ghosts!

~Betty from Adult Services

Dubuque History at Google Books

These two full-text books about Dubuque history are available online for free at Google Books:

Frank D. Stout: Dubuque to California

The name Stout in Carnegie-Stout Public Library commemorates Frank D. Stout who donated the land for our Library. Encyclopedia Dubuque lists his Romanesque mansion at 1105 Locust Street as another of Stout's legacies.

The people of California are also the beneficiaries of a legacy honoring Frank Stout's memory. The Frank D. Stout Memorial Park consists of 44 acres of giant redwoods located on the Smith River about ten miles north of Crescent City. "The Stout Grove is the most scenic redwood grove in existence," states Park Ranger Pete Peterson.

He has sent us a virtual tour to enjoy.

~Betty, Adult Services

Encyclopedia Dubuque

More than 1,900 articles and 600 images on the history of Dubuque, Iowa are now available online for free at Encyclopedia Dubuque at http://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/.

Encyclopedia Dubuque is the revised and expanded version of the original 1991 print edition of Randolph Lyon’s book Dubuque: The Encyclopedia.

The new free online encyclopedia is made possible by the Carnegie-Stout Library Foundation, U.S. Bank, and the Dubuque City Council’s 175th Anniversary Celebration Committee.

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Update: February 21, 2009

Encyclopedia Dubuque has won a 365ink Impact Award for Best on the Web 2008. The Impact Awards are meant to “honor those individuals, organizations and businesses that have made the biggest impact on our life here in the Tri States in 2008.” Click here to learn more about the awards (PDF -- 10.19 MB).

Thanks very much to the Carnegie-Stout Library Foundation, U.S. Bank, and the City of Dubuque for making this possible!

Two Dubuquers Spot Flying Saucer

On April 29, 1964, the Dubuque Telegraph Herald reported that two Dubuquers, Paul Kies and Larry Kratzer, spotted a UFO while traveling near Socorro, New Mexico. A researcher from UFO Hunters, a documentary cable series on The History Channel, recently contacted Carnegie-Stout Public Library to request information about this incident. The episode mentioning the Dubuquers is tentatively scheduled to air on Wednesday, October 15, 2008. ~ Mike, Adult Services For an update, see http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=207329211923.

F.I.S.T. 30th Anniversary Celebration

   

Thanks to the nearly 120 people who came to the 30th Anniversary Celebration of F.I.S.T., the Sylvester Stallone movie filmed in Dubuque in 1977.

Since we had enough seats in the auditorium for everyone, we will not re-show F.I.S.T. in August. If you didn't make it to the screening and you still want to see the movie, click here to place a hold on the Blu-ray.

~ Mike, Adult Services

Dubuque Hotels: Exemplars of Antebellum Elegance

A thoughtful patron stopped by the Information Desk last week and shared a historical tidbit of interest about Dubuque, mentioned in a book she had just read: Hotel: An American History by A. K. Sandoval-Strausz (Yale University Press, 2007), call # 646.94 SAN.

The author documents the role of hotels as propagators of material culture, amplified by traveling guests who carried new ideas over the distances they traveled. He notes that hotels served as leading exemplars for household decoration, furniture, and technology. Here's an excerpt from pages 246 to 247, with emphasis on Dubuque added by us:

In antebellum Iowa and Illinois, for example, wealthy families began to furnish their parlors in a new and more elegant style, purchasing expensive carpets and carefully crafted furniture, marble ornaments and mantelpieces, mirrors, curtains, and even gas-lit chandeliers. The inspiration for these purchases involved two hotels frequented by Midwestern wayfarers. The first was the Planters Hotel in St. Louis, the décor of which was copied by hotels constructed in the towns of Galena, Davenport, Quincy, and Dubuque in the 1840s and 1850s. The second was New York City’s St. Nicholas Hotel, whose opulent parlors were particularly popular among the first families of Dubuque. The parlors of private homes in the river towns of the Midwest were thus part of networks of metropolitan aspiration that extended across distances of more than a thousand miles.

Thank you, dear patron, for thinking to keep us informed about Dubuque history!

~ Mirdza, Adult Services