Newspaper Index

Our Newspaper Index is an ongoing project to index all of the newspapers in the Rock Island County Historical Society Library's collection.  Currently, the staff at the Society is working to make the valuable information stored in its pages available to the public.  Our collection contains the East Moline Herald, East Moline Enterprise, Van Gazette, Port Byron Globe, Erie Review, Rock Island Union, Milan Independent, Moline Dispatch, Reynolds Press, and Rock Island Argus.  The Society is looking for volunteers to help us complete this project.  

Newspaper articles that match your search results can be viewed at the Society, or can be requested for a fee of $2.00 per article. Please send the fee with a SASE, and a letter stating the article(s) you are requesting.  The article request fee will be used to help cover the cost of preserving our newspaper collection, and for the time used by our staff members to complete your request.  For each article requested, staff members have to locate each individual newspaper books, scan the article requested, and print the scanned pages, which will take up approximately 10 minutes per article requested.