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Perry County Public Library
Tell City, Indiana
Explore this community history collection to discover the people, places, organizations, and events of Tell City.
1836 to 2019Dates represented
See individual titles for available dates.
312,908Archive pages
Historical pages reported for this collection.
Explore local history
Discover the people, places, and stories of Tell City, Indiana.
Get to know Tell City, Indiana in earlier years through the newspapers shared in the Perry County Public Library's digital archive. Its forty-three titles include material from 1836 to 2019.
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Selected titles
Explore titles such as “Cannelton Enquirer And Reporter” as well as “Troy Yearbooks”, shared by Perry County Public Library.
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A closer look
Newspaper pages connect individual accounts with a wider story, preserving how events were reported and presented to the readers of the day.
Historical newspapers can connect a family name with the events and everyday concerns of an earlier time, offering more than a date or a name on its own. Bring a family connection, a question about a familiar place or an interest in local history, and see where the sources lead. Explore the archive online for free, without a subscription.
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Titles in this collection
Browse forty-three titles and 312,908 digitized pages, with material from 1836 to 2019. A partnership between Perry County Public Library and Advantage Archives makes this collection available. Some years or items may be missing between the dates shown.
Bring a person, place or date you recognize, and browse the titles below for a first clue in the story you want to follow.
Cannelton Enquirer And Reporter
3,164 pages from 1836 to 1887
Cannelton Reporter
8,812 pages from 1854 to 1877
Cannelton Yearbooks
11,272 pages from 1937 to 2014
Eckerty Telephone Directory
96 pages in 1912
Independent Reporter
8 pages in 1856
Memories of Rome Indiana
1,068 pages in 2019
Miscellaneous Historical Documents
1,662 pages from 1873 to 1908
Perry County Tobin Township Pioneer Families Book 1
524 pages in 2016
Perry County Tobin Township Pioneer Families Book 2
544 pages in 2016
Santa Claus Town News
8 pages in 1936
Schweizer-Ansiedlungs-Verein
3,828 pages in 1857
Siberia Telephone Directory
48 pages in 1939
Souvenir Book of Tell City 1908
130 pages in 1908
Tall Tales From Tattletown
1,516 pages in 2019
Tell City Anzeiger
13,578 pages from 1871 to 1912
Tell City Commercial
552 pages from 1874 to 1876
Tell City News
123,922 pages from 1891 to 1976
Tell City Telephone Directory
9,626 pages from 1943 to 1991
Tell City Yearbooks
19,840 pages from 1924 to 2015
The Cannelton Enquirer
18,220 pages from 1870 to 1924
The Cannelton Journal
28 pages in 1883
The Cannelton Mercury
48 pages in 1855
The Cannelton News
33,790 pages from 1945 to 1976
The Cannelton Telephone
32,696 pages from 1892 to 1945
The Cannelton Tuesday News
8,198 pages from 1966 to 1974
The Economist
2,084 pages from 1849 to 1851
The Express
8 pages in 1851
The Indiana Weekly Express
352 pages from 1852 to 1853
The Perry County Democrat
1,610 pages from 1946 to 1948
The Perry County Tribune
3,344 pages from 1910 to 1918
The Perry-Spencer County News
8 pages in 1916
The Republican Banner
24 pages in 1856
The Tell City Daily Journal
46 pages in 1895
The Tell City Journal
8,246 pages from 1891 to 1917
The Tell City News Centennial Supplement
242 pages in 1958
The Tell City Thursday News
1,446 pages from 1966 to 1967
The Times-Telephone
270 pages from 1892 to 1893
The Troy Herald
164 pages in 1910
The Troy Item
112 pages from 1885 to 1887
The Troy Times
356 pages from 1908 to 1909
Treasurer of the Town of Tell City
548 pages in 1872
Troy High School Yearbook
640 pages from 1946 to 1959
Troy Yearbooks
230 pages from 1947 to 1953
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About the Library
About Perry County Public Library
The Perry County Public Library, established in 1893, has grown significantly over the years from a small lending library in Schreiber’s Drug Store to a modern facility offering extensive services. The library now operates out of its location at 2328 Tell Street and provides a wide array of resources, including a genealogy department, technology lab, and bookmobile service. The library is dedicated to meeting the educational, informational, and recreational needs of the Perry County community.
Library History
The History Of Perry County Public Library
Founded by a group of 30 residents, the Perry County Public Library has grown from a small collection of donated books to a thriving public institution. From its early days in City Hall to the construction of a dedicated Carnegie library in 1917, the library has continually evolved to meet the needs of its patrons. In 2012, it merged with the Cannelton Library District to form the Perry County Public Library, offering expanded services and resources to the entire county.
Local History
Did You Know?
Did you know that the Perry County Public Library offers free access to a digital archive of local newspapers and yearbooks through its partnership with Advantage Archives? This resource is available to anyone interested in exploring Perry County’s rich history.
More ways to explore and share local history
Research Guidance
Follow a report into its setting
Start with something you would like to understand about the past of Tell City. It might be a person, a neighborhood or an event remembered in your family. Use the digital archive shared by the Perry County Public Library to follow that question into the historical record. When using historical newspapers, try alternate spellings and nearby dates, then read the surrounding page to place a local story in its time. Compare later reporting or another available title to explore different perspectives rather than treating one account as the whole story. Read the headline and neighboring articles as well as the matching lines. The surrounding page can show whether a report is local news, an editorial, or another kind of account; compare its details with later coverage where available.
Take a place or institution mentioned in a report as a new search lead. Check the issue date and read nearby articles to see how the setting is described. Preserve historical names and boundaries as written, and compare another dated reference before connecting the place to a present-day location.
Record which title, date, page, or item supports a useful lead. Mark unanswered questions before connecting it to a family or community story. A similar name can point you toward another source, but it is not proof of identity.
Community Partnership
Keeping local history a community resource
This community archive is made possible by the collaboration of the Perry County Public Library, its community, and Advantage Archives. Together, these partnerships preserve local sources and give people a way to explore, learn from, and share the history around them.
Advantage Archives covers ongoing archive hosting, storage, development, and maintenance. The institution and its community do not pay a subscription, seat license, annual support contract, or other recurring archive-service charge. Local history remains a community resource, not a subscription to maintain.
Would you like to see more of your community's history preserved and accessible? Start a conversation with your library, newspaper publisher, historical or genealogical society, museum, or school about the materials they would like to share and a possible partnership with Advantage Archives.
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Stories, research tips, and archive news
Read All About It connects archive research with the people and institutions preserving local history. Explore partner and community stories, project updates, research ideas, and perspectives on digitization, education, and working with primary sources. Use the articles as a starting point for your next question or a new way to share a discovery.
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