Your family member may have been famous!
Your city may have been notorious!
What factoids will you uncover when you search these previously inaccessible newspaper archives?
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"Chronicling America is a Website providing access to information about
historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is
produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP, a
partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and
the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an
Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive
information and select digitization of historic pages.
The Newspaper Title Directory is derived from the library catalog
records created by state institutions during the NEH-sponsored United
States Newspaper Program (
http://www.neh.gov/projects/usnp.html),
1980-2007. This program funded state-level projects to locate, describe
(catalog), and selectively preserve (via treatment and microfilm)
historic newspaper collections in that state, published from 1690 to the
present. Under this program, each institution created machine-readable
cataloging (MARC) via the Cooperative ONline SERials Program (CONSER)
for its state collections, contributing bibliographic descriptions and
library holdings information to the Newspaper Union List, hosted by the
Online Computer Library Center (OCLC). This data, approximately 140,000
bibliographic title entries and 900,000 separate library holdings
records, was acquired and converted to MARCXML format for use in the
Chronicling America Newspaper Title Directory."
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