Showing posts with label Newspapers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Newspapers. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Colorado Historic Newspaper Collection


Excellent resource for researching in Colorado.

"Newspapers are one of the most versatile and heavily used sources of information for researchers,genealogists, students and the general public. Feature stories, society news, classified and picture advertisements, school and church announcements, news from surrounding towns, editorials and cartoons, all give the reader the sense of "being there." Often the papers contain historical information that is not available in any other source.

About Colorado Historic Newspapers

The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) currently includes 147 newspapers published in Colorado from 1859 to 1923. CHNC contains over 477,000 digitized pages and is a joint endeavor of the Colorado State Library, the Colorado Historical Society, and generous donors throughout the state."

Sunday, January 14, 2007

Richmond Newspaper Database, 1860-1865


From the website...

"The Richmond Daily Dispatch is the result of a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and collaboration between the University of Richmond, Tufts University's Perseus Project, and the Virginia Center for Digital History. There are currently 1384 issues of the paper available online, ranging in date from November 1860 through December 1865." Take a look...

http://dlxs.richmond.edu/d/ddr/index.html

Fantastic research database!