I find the best place to look for old newspapers of Florida is in the University of Florida collection. I don't think the lend the films, but you know where they are if you go that way. I do this on the internet through http://www.fcla.edu , next I select: "UF", then I search using the Basic Search "SUBJECT - Key West", then selecting NEWSPAPERS and finally surfing through the titles and holdings. I found that a lot of newspapers were published in Key West and I am reminded that it was a major port in Florida. From what I found I know that in the Library West, Microfilm Collection there are the following: TITLE: Key West dispatch; Key West, Fla. : H.A. Crane; Began in 1867; ceased in 1880? LIBRARY HAS: 1872: July 13 (film 2D), 1873: Jan.4 (film 2D), 1879: Feb.22 Mar.22, 1880: Mar.6 (film 2D) TITLE: Island City news;Key West, Fla. : Jefferson B. Browne LIBRARY HAS: 1882: Mar.16,23; Apr.20 TITLE: The evening call; Key-West, Fla. : Began May 16, 1887; ceased in 1888? LIBRARY HAS: 1887: Nov.7 TITLE: The Daily Key; Key-West, Fla. : Bryson & Jenks Began Jan. 1, 1888? LIBRARY HAS: 1888: Jan.13dhld 2 TITLE: Key West Democrat; Key West, Fla. : C.B. Pendleton; Began in 1880. LIBRARY HAS: 1880: Nov.1,17, 1881: June 8, 1882: Apr.29, 1883: Aug.18; Sept 1-15, 1886: Mar.20 (film 3B/12), 1887?: Jan.15 TITLE: The Daily equator-Democrat; Key West, Fla. : Equator Pub. Co. LIBRARY HAS: 1889: Mar.26; Apr.10 (film 2H/3), 1889: Mar.(trade ed.); Apr.24-29; June 5-12, 1890: June 6 (film 2H/3) TITLE: The Key of the Gulf; Key West, Fla.; Key West, Fla.: H.A. Crane; Began in 1874; ceased in 1887. LIBRARY HAS: 1876: Jan.8; July 1,8(film 2D/17) 1877: May 26 (film 2H-2), 1878: Oct.26, 1880: Apr.17; May 8; Nov.27, 1881: May 7, 1882: Apr.29 (film 4E/21), 1882: Oct.14; Nov.4-11, 1887: Aug.6, TITLE: El Yara; Key West, Fla. : J.D.P. Estenoz; Began in 1878. LIBRARY HAS: 1889: Mayo 25 (film 5E-2) Obviously the collections are not continuous. And I only chose newspapers near the period you were looking, there are many more newspapers published in Key West. And I cut and snipped to keep this correspondence short. My grandfather came to Key West as a boy of about 16 to work in the Cigar Factories there. He with family move to Tampa. My father told me that in the factories there were readers hired by the workers to read the newspapers aloud while they worked. The readers also read novelettes and other short works. Tom Santa Cruz Cheryl Sanchez-Sivers (Casivers@aol.com) wrote: > Does anyone know where microfilm copies exist of the following newspapers that > were published in the 1880's and 1890's in Key West? They are: > > The Democrat -1880 > The Equator-El Equator (English and Spanish Paper) - 1887 > Equator (joined with the democrat in 1888) > > If anyone knows of any microfilm copies outside of Key West, please let me > know.