Dataset

Issue census

One row per monthly issue slot in the paper's run, stating whether an object is held, what kind of object it is, its page count and file properties where recorded.

Coverage: 203 issue slots, 2003—2018; 116 with a held PDF. Volume and issue numbers are recorded only as printed on the held object and are null elsewhere.
Methodology: Rows are read from the issue records. File size and MIME type are the asset store's own metadata for the uploaded object; no checksum is held for remote files.
Rights: Descriptive metadata created by the archive is released under CC0 1.0. Rights in the underlying articles, photographs and artwork remain with their authors; the rows describe those works and do not license them.

Version: 2026-10-06
Rows: 203
Columns: 18
Source: /archive

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Free Press Houston Archive “Issue census (Free Press Houston Archive dataset, version 2026-10-06).” 6 October 2026. Dataset, version 2026-10-06. Free Press Houston Archive. https://freepresshoustonarchive.com/data/issues. Accessed [date].

Published: 6 October 2026
Accessed: —

Columns

issue_id · url · record_id · title · year · month · volume_as_printed · issue_number_as_printed · pages · held · version_status · provenance · pdf_url · pdf_bytes · pdf_mime · cover_source · article_count · masthead_transcribed

First rows

issue_id	url	record_id	title	year	month	volume_as_printed	issue_number_as_printed	pages	held	version_status	provenance	pdf_url	pdf_bytes	pdf_mime	cover_source	masthead_transcribed
2003.01	https://freepresshoustonarchive.com/archive/2003.01	https://freepresshoustonarchive.com/archive/2003.01#issue	January 2003	2003	1	—	—	—	false	—	pending	—	—	—	—	false
2003.02	https://freepresshoustonarchive.com/archive/2003.02	https://freepresshoustonarchive.com/archive/2003.02#issue	February 2003	2003	2	—	—	—	false	—	pending	—	—	—	—	false
2003.03	https://freepresshoustonarchive.com/archive/2003.03	https://freepresshoustonarchive.com/archive/2003.03#issue	March 2003	2003	3	—	—	—	true	—	pending	—	—	—	flickr	false
2003.04	https://freepresshoustonarchive.com/archive/2003.04	https://freepresshoustonarchive.com/archive/2003.04#issue	April 2003	2003	4	—	—	—	true	—	pending	—	—	—	flickr	false
2003.05	https://freepresshoustonarchive.com/archive/2003.05	https://freepresshoustonarchive.com/archive/2003.05#issue	May 2003	2003	5	—	—	—	true	—	pending	—	—	—	flickr	false