Homer really puts a lot of work into this series by going to the library and copying these from microfiche. According to the title of this thread, today’s paper is from the Monterey Public Library. It really is a testament to Homer’s dedication to this project.
At one point I had looked to see if we could get there articles online from the New York Times archive to save some time for Homer and you can, but even with a full subscription you are only allowed 100 articles per year before you have to pay for them individually. As with today’s paper there are at least 10 articles so you would use up the free ones inside a week.
I can’t match that. The UCSC library has the Times going back to the Civil War but I don’t think it goes all the way to 1812.
As with today’s paper there are at least 10 articles so you would use up the free ones inside a week.
At the Monterey library it costs 25 cents a page, so even a Sunday edition, at $5-$10, is cheaper than the pay-by-the-article method. It is not just the cost that keeps me going to the microfilm* though. I come across many good articles and photos and so on as I scroll through the reels. I would miss those if I was working from an index. I might try again at our local JC – Cabrillo College. In addition to the reels they subscribe to the Times archives on-line. I could get unlimited access by signing up for a class. I need to take continuing education anyway for my accounting license so that could be a bonus. If you can simulate paging through the newspaper day by day it could work. And I wouldn’t have the occasional problem of unreadable copy like I do with the reels. That can be a crap shoot.
*Not microfiche. When I started this project I remembered that microfiche is on the reel and microfilm is the rectangles that you view like microscope slides. Wrong. I recently googled the terms and discovered I had it backwards.