Good news everyone!
18,000 more pages of Vermont newspapers were just added to Chronicling America! Currently, there are 224,000 pages (52 titles, 1 in French, 1 in Italian) of Vermont newspapers in Chronicling America. The latest addition includes the following titles (click on the masthead or text to access the newspaper):
Read more about it!
-Erenst
One fascinating international story that is described in Vermont’s papers is the Spanish Influenza of 1918. The Middlebury Register chronicled this tragic episode in vivid detail.
As part of the Vermont Digital Newspaper Project, the Middlebury Register, one of Vermont’s longest running weekly newspapers, became available on Chronicling America in 2012. The Middlebury Register started publication in 1836 and eventually ceased publication in the 1940s. Between 1836 and 1950, it changed names 6 times. Continue reading Spanish Influenza as reported in the Middlebury Register
VTDNP participated at the 120th Annual Vermont Library Conference, Story Time: Advocate, Celebrate, and Be Heard, on May 20th, 2014 from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm at St. Michael’s College in Colchester. We had a booth and poster presentation setup for the event. We also came with handouts, pamphlets, bookmarks, and candies. We talked to many librarians about the (free) primary resources offered through our project at ChroniclingAmerica.com.
PS: apologies for some low-res photos as they were taken with different gadgets at various quality settings.
– Erenst Anip
This past month the Library of Congress added four batches of newspaper pages from Vermont including the much-anticipated Italian language newspaper, Cronaca Sovversiva.
Here are links to new content and new titles available as of today, May 7, 2014:
Congratulations and thanks to our fabulous production team: Karyn Norwood, Mary VanBuren-Swasey, Michael Breiner, and Jake Barickman – with special acknowledgement to Fanny Mion-Mouton (former visiting graduate student from France).
For the complete listing of Vermont’s historical newspaper offerings on Chronicling America, click here.
– Erenst Anip (& Birdie MacLennan)
May 7, 1901, in the Barre Evening Telegram, page 3:
Historic newspapers often provide fascinating glimpses of the changing landscape of towns and cities. This was an advertisement for house lots by a developer in Barre, Vermont, which were likely never developed in entirety, as neither Congress or Federal Street exist today. Pretty neat!
This was also posted on our Facebook, where we usually post bits of information on Chronicling America, news and updates, interesting newspaper discoveries, this day in history (like this one), and more!
-Karyn Norwood
Green Mountain Freeman
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