Google Historic Newspapers Archive!

September 8, 2008

I am so pumped! As a collector of historic newspapers, Google has just made my day with news that they’re digitally archiving millions — and eventually billions — of old newspapers dating back to 1764.

According to Google’s announcement, “you’ll also be able to browse through them exactly as they were printed — photographs, headlines, articles, advertisements and all.” Here is an example.

This initiative will be especially beneficial to libraries and educational institutions that once housed thousands of newspapers in bound volumes, but later purged them in exchange for compact microfilm archives in the mid 1900s. Unfortunately, and completely unexpected back in the 1950s during the transition, microfilm is now breaking down so our much of our newspaper history may be lost for good. Thankfully, organizations and institutions, like Google, are rushing to digitize the archives now in order to preserve our first drafts of history - printed newspapers.

Thank you, Google! And, Google, if you need any counsel on historic newspapers, let me know. I know a few people.

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5 Responses to “Google Historic Newspapers Archive!”

  1. Paul McEnany on September 8th, 2008 9:00 pm

    I saw that today, too. Knew you’d like that one!

  2. Todd And on September 9th, 2008 5:43 am

    Thanks for thinking of me, Paul. By the way, great exposure in Dallas Morning News! Love the photo and headline. Hope you’re doing well.

  3. Tomorrow’s fish & chip paper? | PRBLOGGER.COM - PR blog on September 9th, 2008 4:28 pm

    [...] I was going to link to Todd Andrlik to alert him to the news as I know he’s a collector of old newspapers. Glad I checked first though as he’s already spotted it. [...]

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  5. Greg on September 24th, 2008 7:09 pm

    A resource of interest might be The Nambour Chronicle & North Coast Advertiser was first published 31st July 1903 and continued as the local newspaper for the Sunshine Coast Region (north of Brisbane, Australia) until 1983. It has been scanned from microfilm and made available, in digital format, the entire full text run of this newspaper from 1903 to 1955.

    Researchers are now able to search the entire paper by keyword or issue date and can download and print directly from the paper. This provides easy and convenient access to this valuable
    historical newspaper

    http://www.nambour-chronicle.com/index.php

    Not on the same scale as the Google project but still worth a visit.

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