Front page of the Holyoke Daily Transcript, April 6, 1917

Several Holyoke area newspapers are available on Microfilm in the Holyoke History Reading Room.   Holdings and dates are listed below.  In addition, our collection of Newspaper Scrapbooks (partly indexed) from the 1880s – 1980s provide some access to topics by subject.

Holyoke Daily Transcript and Holyoke Transcript-Telegram
1882 – 1993

The History Room has near-complete microfilm holdings for Holyoke’s daily paper of record for more than 100 years.  On site patrons can view newspapers on one of our three microfilm readers.  For remote patrons, our volunteer staff can conduct limited research of microfilm material.  We request that you provide at least the month and year of the event.   If you are seeking an obituary and cannot find a date of death, please contact us to find out if we can locate the date.

The Holyoke Telegram
1912-1922

The Springfield Union News and The Republican (Springfield)
1993 – Ongoing

La Justice (French)
1909-1944

The History Room also has incomplete runs on microfilm of The Hampden Freeman, The Holyoke Freeman, The Holyoke Weekly Mirror, and the Holyoke Transcript (weekly edition) in the date range 1849-1872.

Print copies of the Holyoke Sun, a weekly news publication covering local news in Holyoke, South Hadley, and Chicopee are available from June 1995 to 2012, with some gaps in later years.  We maintain digital copies of the Holyoke Sun from June 2012-present, with some gaps.

See also:
Special Industrial Edition of the Holyoke Daily Transcript (1897)  (digital)
Thirtieth Anniversary Edition of the Holyoke Daily Transcript (1912) (digital)

Holyoke History Room Local History Files