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Happy Holidays from VTDNP!

December 19, 2014 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.

christmasradio — 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).

View the album on Flickr

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airplanewyear1912 — “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”?

ALL content from VTDNP Phase 2 are available online

October 14, 2014 VTDNP

Today, October 14, 2014, marks another milestone for our project. All of the digitized newspaper pages from phase 2 are now accessible on Chronicling America, all 254,253 of them along with 15 newspaper title essays (more to come!). The last batch consist of Orleans County Monitor issues from 1908-1922.

As part of the NDNP requirement, we will send all of the duplicate negative microfilm reels of the newspaper digitized to Library of Congress for preservation and safe keeping. Here’s what it looks like before it gets packed and shipped to LC’s vault:

Now, onward with phase 3 and adding more Vermont historic content to the Internet!

-Erenst Anip, Project Librarian

Another 10,000 Vermont newspaper pages added to Chronicling America

August 20, 2014 VTDNP

Another 10,000 pages added to Chronicling America this week from Phase II of the Vermont Digital Newspaper Project! New content from Orleans and Orange County are now online.

Click on the title of the newspaper to view the newspaper on Chronicling America.

The United Opinion, published in Bradford, Orange County, Vermont. Years added: 1892-1922

The Orleans Independent Standard, published in Irasburg[h], Vermont. Years added: 1856-1870

The Orleans County Monitor, published in Barton, Vermont. Years added: 1872-1886

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Expressions: The Newspaper Masthead in Vermont, 1836-1922

July 25, 2014 VTDNP

The masthead: it’s the very first thing one sees when reading a paper. It contains its title, aims to encapsulate its identity, and draws readers to its pages.

From refined fonts to hand-drawn sketches, Vermont’s historical newspaper masthead designs are a visible representation of the story of our state’s media past and the art of selling the news.

Below are just a few of the mastheads of Vermont newspapers we’ve digitized thus far in the project. Some of these mastheads lasted for decades, others, mere weeks. Continue reading Expressions: The Newspaper Masthead in Vermont, 1836-1922 →