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About HistoryBuff
Newspaper Collecting
Collecting Overview
Primer on Collecting
Price Guide
Preserving Newspapers
Reprint Hotlist
Error Editions
Wallpaper Editions
Nameplate Hall of Fame
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Online Newspaper Archives
Historic Panoramas
Reference Libraries
Primary Source Material
State Facts
Interactive Quizzes







Overview of Wallpaper Editions
Did you know that in some cases, newspapers were actually printed on the back of wallpaper due to "regular" paper shortages? Here's the fascinating story behind these unique newspaper edtions.

Wallpaper Manufacturing in 1860's America
Knowing how it was done can help identify genuine specimens.

Bibliography of U.S. Newspaper Wallpaper Editions
143 issues by newspaper title, city, state, date.