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Google is digitizing microfilm from old newspapers and bringing it online to you -- free. It's springing for the cost to put the old film online, opening up vast amounts of local American history ...
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
Up to 1971 for one newspaper; only up to 1950 for many newspapers. Trove – digitization project of the National Library of Australia; over 23 million Australian newspaper pages. Welsh Newspapers Online, over 15 million articles from 1804 to 1919 in over 100 newspapers primarily published in Wales.
The National Digital Newspaper Program is a joint project between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress to create and maintain a publicly available, online digital archive of historically significant newspapers published in the United States between 1836 and 1922. Additionally, the program will make available ...
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company "There was a two-color process invented around 1913 by Kodak that used two glass plates in contact with each other, one being red-orange and the other ...
Newspaper digitization is the process of converting old newspapers from analog form into digital images. The most common analog forms for old newspapers are paper and microfilm. Digitized images of newspaper pages are typically (though not always) analyzed with OCR software in order to produce text files of the newspaper content. Newspaper ...
Key objects in the collection include: The financial scandal of the 1720s, the South Sea bubble, with reports in the Weekly Journal or Saturday’s Post of how Parliament decided that if they left the country, the directors of the South Sea company "shall suffer death as a felon without benefit of clergy and forfeit to the King all his Lands, Goods and Chattels whatsoever."
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