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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.
ACME Newspictures sometimes credited as Acme News Photos was a United States news agency that operated from 1923 to 1952. History. ACME operated from 1923 to 1951, ...
By 1900, major newspapers had become profitable powerhouses of advocacy, muckraking and sensationalism, along with serious, and objective news-gathering. In the 1920s, technological change again changed American journalism as radio began to play a new role, followed by television in the 1950s and internet in the 1990s.
1950: The new Clay High School will be a 16-room building and be built south of the current school facing Lily Road. Roy A. Worden is the architect. Headlines in History 1950: Lily Road site of 16 ...
Crime news featured big bold headlines, and startling graphic art. [77] The approach worked, and as the Journals circulation jumped to 150,000, Pulitzer had to cut his price to a penny, hoping to drive his young competitor (who was subsidized by his family's fortune) into bankruptcy. In a counterattack, Hearst raided the staff of the World in ...
Hey Chicago — do you know how long laws governing abortion have been on the books in Illinois? Since Abraham Lincoln was a teenager. But, how did we get from a statute outlawing the sale of ...
In the early 1800s, newspapers were largely for the elite and took two forms – mercantile sheets that were intended for the business community and contained ship schedules, wholesale product prices, advertisements and some stale foreign news, and political newspapers that were controlled by political parties or their editors as a means of ...
The new news writing style first spread to the provincial press through the Midland Daily Telegraph around 1900. [31] By the early 19th century, there were 52 London papers and over 100 other titles. In 1802, and 1815 the tax on newspapers was increased to three pence and then four pence.