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Location Closure The Light Street Branch is closed through Tuesday, July 1 due to a facilities maintenance issue.

Announcement The Pennsylvania Avenue Branch is operating on a reduced schedule with limited services 10 am–4 pm until further notice, due to a facilities maintenance issue.

Location Closure The Central Library will be closing Monday, June 30 @ 5 PM due to a speaker event.

Location Closure The Brooklyn, Forest Park, Govans, Hamilton, Herring Run, Northwood, Reisterstown Road, and Washington Village branches are closed for facility improvements. Learn more here.

Holiday Closing All Pratt Library locations will be closed Friday, July 4 in observance of Independence Day.

Pratt Library Resources

The Pratt Library has many resources available online and in person to help you find historic Maryland newspapers. To browse collections in person, visit the Maryland Department and Periodicals Department at the Central Library.

Your Pratt Library card gives you access to online databases, including Current & Historical Newspaper Archives, Black Newspaper Archives, and Maryland Newspapers. These databases allow you to browse and download a wide variety of publications dating back to the 1890s.

Baltimore Sun historic newspaper, digital 1913 page scan

Baltimore Sun historic newspaper, digital 1913 page scan available online from the Proquest database

The Sun Index bound volumes from 1922, 1923

Baltimore Sun bound volumes from the past are stored in the Maryland Department, available for research

Other Resources

Couldn’t find what you needed in the Pratt Library collections? The following websites contain digitized versions of many Maryland newspapers.

Maryland Department
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Maryland Department


The Maryland Department is a comprehensive collection of materials related to the state of Maryland.

Periodicals Department
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Periodicals Department


An in-depth, retrospective collection of newspapers, journals, and magazines in paper, microform, and online full-text formats.

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