Update: More Than 112,000 Newspaper Pages Added to Chronicling America
From the Announcement:
On Feb. 26, the National Digital Newspaper Program added more than 112,000 additional historic newspaper pages to the Chronicling America Web site, hosted by the Library of Congress. The site now provides free and open access to 977,440 pages from 112 titles, that were published between 1880 and 1910 in 9 states (CA, FL, KY, MN, NE, NY, TX, UT, VA) and the District of Columbia. Six additional states–Arizona, Hawaii, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington–will be contributing content later in 2009. Chronicling America is a project of the National Digital Newspaper Program, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
Direct to Chronicling America Database and Web Site
Source: Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/
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Welcome to Chronicling America, enhancing access to America’s historic newspapers. This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
Thank you granny, that is a tremendous resource for historians and genealogists!
I am going through newspaper clippings from 1877-1910 chronicling events in my family’s history. My OCR software got a workout while I was offline.
There aren’t enough hours in the day!