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Happy Holidays from VTDNP!

Happy holidays, everyone, from the Vermont Digital Newspaper Project! May you have a warm (emphasis on warm!!), happy, and safe holiday in whatever form that may take.

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An advertisement for a radio from the Caledonian-Record in 1922.

 

Here’s to a fantastic 2014 and an even better 2015.  In honor of the holiday season, we put together a small  album of assorted holiday newspaper clippings from Vermont (all found on                              Chronicling America).

 

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“The Arrival of the New Year” in the Spirit of the Age out of Woodstock, Vermont.

 

Cheers,

The VTDNP team

P.S. Also, a note on holiday craft ideas: old newspaper clippings make for great holiday cards!

P.P.S. Have you seen the Chronicling America Topics Pages for “Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus”?

150 Years Ago: The St. Albans Raid as Recounted in the News

“The town is full of the wildest rumors, and speculation runs rife,”     reported the Vermont Transcript on October 21, 1864, only a few days after the northern-most land attack in the Civil War in the town of St. Albans on October 19th, 1864.

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The news spread quickly in Vermont, thanks to telegraph dispatches from St. Albans. This was from the Vermont Watchman & State Journal on October 21, 1864.

The raiders first appeared a few days earlier, staying at a variety of St. Albans lodgings, according to the Vermont Transcript:

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Click on the article to go directly to the newspaper page.

Continue reading 150 Years Ago: The St. Albans Raid as Recounted in the News →

Researching historic buildings on Chronicling America

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A detailed account of a local businessman’s new home in Montpelier, Vermont, on State Street. This was found by using the advanced search of keywords with any of the words “state” and “street” and the phrase “O.M. Fisher.” I did not limit the years, but did limit results to the state of Vermont.

Historic newspapers on Chronicling America hold an abundance of information regarding local and national news and cultural trends of the past. Newspapers are also particularly helpful in uncovering the history of the built landscape of our communities. Continue reading Researching historic buildings on Chronicling America →

VTDNP Celebrates Completion of Phase 2

Today, August 29, 2014, marks the last working day of VTDNP Phase 2. Vermont now have 243,952 pages digitized and made available online on Chronicling America. We have approximately 10,000 more pages under review before being added to the website. We will be in Phase 3 starting next work day (September 2, 2014) and working towards digitizing another 100,000 pages of Vermont historic newspapers. Last but not least, we would like to thank everyone involved so far for their support and energy. Have a great Labor Day weekend!

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Celebrating the completion of ‪#‎VTDNP‬ phase 2 with some sparkling cider while getting bookmarks & more mastheads printed. We’ll be doing more outreach in Phase 3. Be on the lookout or contact us for more info!