https://www.neh.gov/news/neh-announces-315-million-226-humanities-projects-nationwide We are happy to say that the National Endowment for Humanities recently announced that Alaska would receive a 4th grant in the National Digital Newspaper Project, covering 2022-2024. This means that the Alaska Digital Newspaper Project will be able to add an additional 100,000 pages of Alaskan newspapers to Chronicling America! We are excited …
Hi Readers, We're putting out the call here at the Alaska Digital Newspaper Project for issues of The Alaska Spotlight! Do you or anyone you know still hold copies of this newspaper? If so, let us know! The Alaska Spotlight was an Anchorage weekly that started in 1952 and ended sometime in the 1960s. The …
If you're a fan of old Alaskan newspapers then we have good news for you: two more batches of newspapers have been uploaded to the Library of Congress' website, Chronicling America! These two new batches, named bow head whale and killer whale, contain over 22,000 newspaper pages across more than 2500 issues. These issues come …
Our work here at the Alaska National Digital Newspaper Project continues and the Library of Congress has accepted and uploaded two new batches of Alaskan newspaper pages since our last post. These latest batches, nicknamed jaeger and icelandgull, contain over 3,000 newspaper issues and more than 22,000 pages covering the time period from 1923 through …
Our New Years resolution to bring you more Alaskan newspapers is going swimmingly so far as our latest batch, Halibut, has been uploaded to ChroniclingAmerica. You can view this batch online here or see all of the titles we have uploaded here! As always, our website provides a geographic breakdown of the different titles that …
October and November were exciting months here at the Alaska Digital Newspaper Project. We submitted 5 new batches of newspaper issues to the Library of Congress and all 5 were accepted! This means that in the next few months you should be able to find the following on Chronicling America: -We will have several new …
Article from The Cordova Daily Times, 01/18/1918 IN 1912 the Assistant Surgeon General of Alaska, R.A. Kearney, wrote that “Unless some ways are used to check tuberculosis among the native Indians of Alaska the race will become extinct there in sixty or seventy years.” In 1918 the threat from Tuberculosis was still critical, indicated by …
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Greetings, all! This week marks Public Library Appreciation Week, and a great opportunity to shed light on opportunities to access newspapers through your local library. The State Library of Alaska may be a government library, but we share in the mission of public libraries everywhere to make newspapers available to the public. While many public …
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Hello all, This week, Chronicling America updated their list of Alaska newspaper titles and added one more: The Seward gateway daily edition and the Alaska weekly post Throughout its publication, the Seward gateway changed title and frequency, offering both daily and weekly issues. For this paper, we had access to one issue of the Seward …
Hello all, Exciting news on the project front: a representative from the National Endowment for the Humanities contacted the Alaska State Library to notify us that we have been approved for an additional funding cycle from 2018 through 2020. This means that we can continue to produce content for Chronicling America and make historic Alaska …
Greetings all, Exciting news! As of this week, Chronicling America has made available 4 new Alaska newspapers, available here: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/?state=Alaskaðnicity=&language=. These include: -The Cordova daily times: October 1, 1920 - April 14, 1923 -The Alaska citizen: April 9, 1910 - October 1, 1917 -The Weekly Alaska citizen: October 8, 1917 - December 31, 1917 -The …
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Greetings, all! The nature of newsprint preservation is a race against time. Like nearly all historic documents, decay is inevitable, but with newsprint, that threat comes faster. Why is this? The answer comes in the way in which it is processed. Inherent Vice Not just the title of a Thomas Pynchon novel, the term "inherent …
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