Posted on 05/03/2015 2:35:04 PM PDT by saminfl
To get into their archives, you usually have to subscribe to their archival service. Some papers have a temporary subscription.
Go to the nearest university library. Look it up from the periodical guide green volumes and view microfilm.
Go to the library, print out the microfilms, scan them in, and set up a web site. Then they will be on the internet.
That is, if you can’t find what you want here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_online_newspaper_archives
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I am looking for articles about Donald White, the accountant being named President of Hughes Aircraft Company. If I remember correctly, his first two edicts were everyone had to work a 45 hour week with no additional pay and he wanted all our frequent flyer miles. It seems the government made him back down on the 45 hour week thing and the Times articles made him seem like a clown. I worked for Hughes and we were told at the time that Mal Currie was named to a post to keep White on the level.
In the end, the greed of the top management allowed Hughes to be sold and the country lost a national asset.
I second one of the posts here. Google it and you will have to pay something typically. I have never failed at finding old newspaper articles even in small town newspapers. It just takes a little searching. Typically I have found that the newspaper itself has the archives. I have also discovered a lot more on the Internet than in a Library.
google had a newspaper archive project for a while, the results were probably kept even if they ended it
The LA Times website says that articles before 1985 are in microfilm. A university library or major urban library are your best prospect for such microfilm. You can use WorldCat to find the closest one, using Los Angeles Times as your search term. A finding aid is another matter though, and you should seek the help of a reference librarian.
I don’t know, now half my links on my FR account have gone dead. I guess FR only keeps articles on their site for around 5 years now.
Decades ago, after buying a house, I found a Portland Journal newspaper from the 40’s. It had a editorial saying that Germany’s threat to bomb Britain shouldn’t be taken seriously. The reasoning was that there was an innate goodness in every person that would stop them from doing such evil. Liberalsi was crap, even back then.
lolz
Yet there is so much out there not online. Hundreds of years of newspapers and other data that are rotting away and may be lost forever if we do not digitalize it all now.
The papers want you & me to pay for the history by charging for *subscriptions*.
Don’t know if this will help you sam...
http://www.bukisa.com/articles/4324_find-old-newspaper-articles-and-archives-online-for-free
This is a job for low-tech, hjgh-touch. Pick up that old fashioned device called the “telephone” and ask the LAT how to get it. Large library/micro will probably be the answer
Good luck
That site worked. Thank you.
Great link. Found my wedding announcement in the Sun. Time to look for more stuff!
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