Scope and Contents Not organized into volumes, but arranged by date, 1816 to 1895. In cases where more than one article appears on the same page or series of pages, they have been filed chronologically by the first date on the page. Grouped by state, the collection includes newspapers from Illinois, 1833-1855 Indiana and Iowa, 1833-1871; Missouri, 1819-1895; New York, 1818-1877; Ohio, 1828-1855; Massachusetts and Vermont, 1823-1847; Michigan and Wisconsin, 1834-1857 and Miscellaneous States, 1816-1849.