Allen Black Newspaper Archives

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"Allen Black Newspapers Archives"

Many years ago, Allen Black, publisher, editor and one of the owners of the Malden Press-Merit spent years collecting all newspaper editions of Malden's paper. Mr Black was a true historian at heart and believed that all legal newspapers are the most important collection of history in the strictest sense.

After years of using his free time to collect all papers in the order of publication, Allen Black shipped each issue in boxes laid down in chronological order to the University of Missouri. The University Press bound the books in handsome hard covers and microfilmed each page of all published editions.

The years from 1901 to 1986 were included in this historical collection which will soon be available on this website.

Thanks to the many members who have supported this major project with donations and support.

We hope this new research capability will be exciting and help build our membership to new levels of excitement. Thanks to everyone for their support.

Allen Black was a life time supporter and board member of the Malden Historial Museum.

Our Dream For Our Members Has Come True!

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The newspaper project

This is expensive and ambitious project took a lot of planning, fund raising and support from museum members. We believe this is one of the most sought after request for research, education and pure enjoyment.

We replaced our microfilm reader with Adobe PDF documents for research and downloads of Malden's history from 1901 to 1995.

The Allen Black Newspaper Archives

The Allen Black Newspaper Archives is a project that started over three years ago to allow visitors of our site to explore the past history of Malden, Missouri using newspapers from 1901 to 1995.

We are proud to announce that anyone can go to the Malden Historical Museum newspaper web page and search by name, date and events of Malden's past. These are legal newspapers and can be a verification for research purposes.

Donations and support

Donations and support are necessary to keep the newspaper archives on our servers. Donate $1 and up if you use the archives for research, family history and just plain fun to search your name and events you remember living in Malden.

Click this Link To Search Archives

This link will take you to search and read the newspaper archives. Users can download full page articles. Clippings using the scissor tool in the right hand window can be used to grab small or large articles for keepsakes and sharing. Need help? Use the help section for using the archives.

Newspaper Archives

THERE IS A LIMIT OF FIVE USERS ON THE SITE. If you cannot enter the link please return to the site at a later time and click on the link below to use the archives.

DUPLICATE ROLLS ARE SHOWN. The museum inherited some extra rolls and during the conversion from microfilm to digital, those duplicates are included for research. Some original page scans at Missouri University are better then others for research. It would be too time consuming to compare which pages are better.