Historic American Newspaper Pages with Images and Text from 1770 to 1810

1770–1810 newspaper page records from the Library of Congress Chronicling America collection. The dataset includes images, OCR text, and publication metadata, providing a foundation for research and machine learning projects. It was created by RevolutionCrossroads and last updated on Hugging Face in February 2026.

Use Cases

• Train optical character recognition (OCR) models based on the provided page images and text.
• Conduct historical text analysis based on the newspaper OCR text from the early United States.
• Perform image-to-text retrieval tasks based on the linked page images and their corresponding text.
• Analyze publication trends and metadata based on the included newspaper publication information.

Strengths

• Sourced from the authoritative Library of Congress Chronicling America digital collection.
• Covers a defined 40-year period from 1770 to 1810.
• Includes multiple data modalities: images, text, and metadata per record.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Library of Congress Chronicling America collection, part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

Collection Method

Drawn from the digital collection; specific extraction method is not detailed.

Time Range

1770–1810

Freshness

Last updated 2026-02-06 17:44:23.

Geography

United States (implied by 'American Newspapers' and 'Regionus' platform tag).