The survey resulted in finding about 10,370 newspaper holdings across the state. Although many repositories hold the same titles, approximately 6000 unique titles were identified. As we travel around the state cataloging the newspaper collections we expect to find even more. Until the project's cataloging phase is done, this survey database will probably remain the single most comprehensive source for locating American newspapers in Tennessee institutions. The newspaper information, in most cases, is as reported by the holding institutions.
Titles are as reported except that beginning articles have been removed for alphabetization.
Many records do not include complete information about the newspaper. For example, if no publication information was given by the survey respondent none is in the database. The detail of the holdings dates varies significantly from institution to institution and record to record. When the holdings dates were too long fit in our database, we entered a date span within parentheses which indicates that more detailed information is available. Researchers should be sure to contact the holding institution when looking for specific issues.