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29th September 2026

Finnish Newspapers up to 1959 Now Digitised

The National Library of Finland digitises more than a million newspaper pages each year. It has now finished digitising every newspaper published in Finland up to the end of 1959.

Frontpages from Finnish-language newspapers published in the 1950s.

Finnish-language newspapers up to the end of 1939 are freely accessible online at digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi, thanks to an agreement with copyright management organisation Kopiosto. A separate project has digitised the entire run of Swedish-language newspapers published in Finland, and these titles up to the end of 1949 are openly accessible.

More information on the National Library of Finland’s website

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