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The UW Libraires provides access to historic and contemporary issues of The Seattle Times online, in print, and on microfilm. 

Seattle Times Online

Content Coverage:

  • 1895 to current - Print newspaper images
  • 1895 to current - Text of news stories
  • 2009 to 2015 - Text from blog
  • 2017 to current - Text of web-only articles

Access: 

  • Online through UW Restricted Access World News database
  • Search by keyword or browse by date
  • Available for all current UW students, faculty, and staff 
  • Visitors may access the database while on a UW campus
  • Unfortunately it is not possible for the Libraries to subscribe to seattletimes.com

Seattle Times on Microfilm

ScanPro microfilm scanner

Content Coverage:

  • November 21, 1896 to December 31, 2018 

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Seattle Times in Print

Content Coverage:

  • Individual print newspaper issues for today and most current two months  
  • Bound volumes for January 1900 to November 18, 1945; January 13, 1946 to July 15, 1953; October 18, 1953 to December 31, 1954; January 1979 to December 1990
  • Bound volumes of Dorothy Neighbors columns 1945 and 1947
  • Special event issues available in GMMN Headlines collection

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Seattle Times Morgue & Journalist Files

Seattle Times newspaper morgue files

Content Coverage:

  • The Seattle Times newspaper morgue is a collection of clippings defined by subject, personal name, or organization name. Most of the clippings files cover the 1920s to 1980s.
  • The journalist files are a collection of documents the journalists collected while reporting for the paper. 

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Subjects: Communication, News