Is there data on the circulation numbers for newspapers in the antebellum (pre-1861) United States? I'm also interested in any other pieces of data about these newspapers.
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Yes, and I just edited my post to address that typo. – LJB Jun 24 '15 at 18:43
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Have you looked through https://www.lib.umn.edu/faq/5361 ? Seems promising but maybe not for your time period – Mark Silverberg Jun 24 '15 at 19:42
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1Maybe this helps http://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/4981/dataset-of-major-newspapers-content – Anton Tarasenko Jun 24 '15 at 23:27
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The US Newspapers Directory has a substantial amount of metadata about publication locations & dates, but nothing on circulation. Some bulk data/linked data access is apparently available.
It's part of the broader Chronicling America site, which offers digitised newspapers from 1836 onwards; 1770 titles, 1.36m issues, 9.55m pages. (Of course, the majority of these will be post-1860s)
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The NYTimes Archive goes back to 1851.
Here's a random example, showing that the articles are machine readable.
They also have an API for developers.
And they have an N-gram tool called Chronicle where you can click on the results to view each article.
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