Representative Ads from
1890s-1990s
These advertisements represent the newspaper advertisements common in Mattoon, IL from the 1890s to 1990s. They were collected from past issues of the Mattoon-Journal Gazette and its earlier incarnations. Issues from the 1880s until 1943 are available on microfilm at the Mattoon Public Library. Microfilm issues from 1943 to present are available for public use at the Mattoon Journal-Gazette offices.
