Newspapers

The Boca Raton Historical Society is the keeper of back issues of the Boca Raton News (1955-2009) and its predecessors The Pelican (1948-1952) and The Tattler (1938). The papers through 1970 were digitized in 2004 through a generous donation from the “Save the Boca Raton Elementary Gymnasium Committee” and members of the Pioneer Club. You can view these issues 1938-1970 through our website (see below). 

For instructions and links to these collections, see below:

Click here for directions on how to search the hometown newspaper collection

Click here to access hometown newspapers 1938 to 1970

In addition, the Boca Raton News is available through Newspapers.com from 1963 – 2009. This is a fee-based service, but you can access the issues for free at The Schmidt Boca Raton History Museum and the Boca Raton Public Library. For more information, contact curator@bocahistory.org .