WOW! Hundreds of daily newspaper archives you can read some going back to early 1800's!

[Better Believe It]

Just discovered this!

Check it out.

The Google newspaper archive.

Here's the link:

http://news.google.com/newspapers


Click on a newspaper you'd like to browse.

[EFerrari]

1. That's cool. n/t

[Cleita]

2. Really cool! Thanks.

K&R

[gateley]

3. Thanks! What a great find! nt

[arcane1]

4. That's just too cool

I'll have to check out the ones from Richmond, VA during the civil war!

[molly77]

44. Thank you so much for the link

[leveymg]

5. Thank you!

[snappyturtle]

6. WOW! Wonderful....thanks for sharing. K&R nt

[sarge43]

7. Treasure trove. Thanks for posting. n/t

[slackmaster]

8. Oh. My. God.

[dixiegrrrrl]

29. Ya make me LOL.

[Luciferous]

68. Ha, that was a great episode! :)

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. Oh My God!

I feel like someone has just given me the keys to a Lamborghini.

[hootinholler]

10. Alas, no Harpers. n/t

[bleever]

11. Thank you!

Amazing.

[reggie the dog]

12. how easy does this make it to get primary source documents

for history class???? excellent find, thank you a thousand times, i am a history teacher and my students will be using this

[Better Believe It]

13. I wish all newspapers were listed but many important ones are.

It's odd this particular google feature is not widely known about.

You think they would publicize it.

I like the zoom in and print features.

I came across it by accident!

[reggie the dog]

16. where is the print feature?

i found the zoom in but do i just do a right click print or is there some other way

[Better Believe It]

19. My error. I had to use a screen capture device to print.

I use Screenshot Captor.

This is a free software program which you can download at:

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Screenshot-Captor/1119683215/1

Once installed you don't have to visit the program website captioned "Screenshot Captor Information".

Just decide what monitor screen you want to copy, make sure it's on your screen and right-click on the blue monitor icon on the right-side of your taskbar.

Click on "grab current screen (PrtScr)", click on "Print Image" in new pop-up and "OK" in next box.

You can buy the software to avoid annoying pop ups if you want.

[mainer]

14. Many, many thanks. No need to go to the microfiche now.

A real resource.

[myrna minx]

15. My inner nerd just exploded!

Thank you.

[molly77]

45. Funny

[K8-EEE]

17. Love this! Amused to see a poem called The Cynics Christmas from 1906

Same old Christmas as of yore
Same old nuisance, same old bore....
Same old greeting, same old ills
Same old sameness, even bills!

[Esra Star]

18. Thanks for that, What a fantastic resource.

Interesting question:-
Where do you report errors?
I found a newspaper that is dated 60 years older than it actually is.
Cheers

[Better Believe It]

20. I don't have the answer.

I'm wondering if this is a google feature being tested without publicity that I just accidently stumbled upon.

[Esra Star]

26. I'd say it's live.

It seems odd that there isn't any ability to correct mistakes.
If this is so, it will be just that there is no one available to edit anything.
Thanks again and congrats for finding this diamond.

[PatSeg]

48. I stumbled upon some old digital books

at Google when doing some genealogy research. That feature wasn't advertised either. There were some very obscure old books that I wouldn't have come across any other way.

[Lucinda]

21. Thanks for the link! Could be good for genealogy stuff!

And just plain interesting. :hi:

[madinmaryland]

39. Yeap. I already found the exact reason of what caused the auto accident

that killed three ancestors in 1928. The sun was blinding people back then, too. :(

[Lucinda]

41. Wow. Thats both horrible and wonderful.

Its great to have answers but awful to learn about the accident.
What did we DO before the internet? We have everything (almost) at our fingertips.

[madinmaryland]

62. People would spend hundreds of hours poring through rolls of microfiche.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

55. That was my first thought too!

another source to plunder in the search for those missing links!
:bounce:

[Lucinda]

60. Definitely!

:hi:

[Lefta Dissenter]

22. Hey, thanks!

I used to use http://www.newspapers.com/ but haven't used it for a few years. The Google site looks great! Thanks!

:)

[Better Believe It]

24. I think the other site is good for reading the most recent edition of newspapers

But, unless I missed something I don't think it includes archives.

[felix_numinous]

23. Thanks!!

[GentryDixon]

25. That is cool.

I am working on my genealogy, so perhaps this will help me. Thanks!:bounce:

[Raschel]

51. Obituaries can be a great source of information, as well as phone books Phone books used to list

occupations!

[truedelphi]

27. I am so excited about this. What a nice thing to post, Better Believe It!

There are a couple of things I was wanting to check out, but I'm not sure if the Univ of California library system was up and running right now. (It is holidays for most college campuses till much later in January.)

Thanks so very much. This fits the bill perfectly. I can research from the comfort of my desk chair, with my favorite cat and favorite mug of hot cocoa right with me while I research.

So I am copying the info from this comment and then putting it all in my journal for safekeeping:

The Google newspaper archive.

Here's the link:

http://news.google.com/newspapers

[Better Believe It]

28. Thank you so much and pleased this will help you and many others.

I'm going over there now to check on a few things that interest me.

[Stuart G]

30. Old Newspapers...a story if you will.. on this topic..

The University of Illinois in Urbana had/has old newspapers.
...I guess they still have them..
Back in the 60s when I was there, they had original copies of papers going back to the early 1800s, that is the actual newspapers themselves.
And, they were available (at that time) for a student, or anyone walking into that basement library, to look at.
I think I remember looking at some paper from London that was there...from 1800..
There were yellowed copies of the Chicago Tribune from the Civil war..etc...

Now, all of these and more are available to all...the internet is really in some ways..a gigantic library..
thanks for the topic and original post..

[dixiegrrrrl]

31. Wonder if they are adding to it on a regular basis?

some papers have huge gaps in years, yet I know the paper in question is still publishing.

Still, for national issues, there are enough major papers to read.
Just did a quick glance of Spanish-American war.

I want find some National news bout the Depression, first of all.

cool find...many thanks.

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Better Believe It]

33. I don't know. I wonder if I accidently came across a Google test.

I haven't seen any news on this new Google feature.

[dixiegrrrrl]

36. Found the FAQ pages, and yes, they are adding to it.

However, it is also a commercial ( for profit) plan, they explain.
Google offers varied amounts of archives, but you can "also" click on something and be taken to the actual paper where you can pay for further archives.

http://news.google.com/intl/en/googlenewsarchives/partner.html

[Toucano]

32. Google gets one point in the "non-evil" column.

This is super!

[Nye Bevan]

34. An absolute treasure trove. Here is the Windsor Daily Star the day after Kristallnacht:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=4b-LE5UluQcC&dat=19381110&printsec=frontpage

I find old newspapers absolutely compelling. The juxtaposition of unimaginably horrible world events, hometown trivia, and advertisements (see "How Skinny Mabel Won Popularity" on P15- I guess thin wasn't "in" back then) is fascinating.

[dixiegrrrrl]

35. "Mt. Airy People report some really big porkers over the holidays."

Mt. Airy ( North CarolinanNews, 1930)

Oh my....I may not surface till Saturday.

[Nye Bevan]

37. Heartbreaking! I found these runaway slave ads in the New Orleans Bee, Jul 6 1850:

See http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=zVX0Cq83Iy8C&dat=18500706&printsec=frontpage

[Better Believe It]

38. I noticed a proclamation in the same paper by the Louisiana governor.

He put up a reward for the capture of a person who broke out of jail after being "indicted for negro and horse stealing"

It's just hard to believe what this nation was like.

[stranger81]

40. This is fascinating -- thanks for posting! [n/t]

[tomm2thumbs]

42. Super! Thanks - and for those that like Brooklyn Papers, et al

http://fultonhistory.com/Fulton_New_form.html

Love finding old articles there too....

Thanks again for your google find!

[Bluenorthwest]

43. Very useful widget!

Thanks! There goes the rest of the week!

[defendandprotect]

46. thank you ... ! Thought they had all dumped their archives ...

at some point, elites decided that archives were a problem -- all that history

didn't always work out for them and journalists often wanted to use the archives

to check facts and history!!

[hlthe2b]

47. I wonder if there are some that archive, not listed...

No Denver Post nor the (now defunct) Rocky Mountain News.... I would have thought that Denver would be represented...:shrug:

Great resource though, thanks

[PatSeg]

49. A lot of larger newspapers

charge for access to their archived articles. There were many newspapers that I could not find at Google.

[fishwax]

50. wow, very cool!

Thanks for posting that :bounce:

[Raschel]

52. Thanks! I don't see anything for Minneapolis or St. Paul though. :(

[xchrom]

53. ok -- that's gonna take up too much of my time. wow~ nt

[gtar100]

54. I wonder if they'll put clouds over the parts they don't want you to read.

Just wondering. Glad the archive is there. An awesome resource.

[DesertDiamond]

56. This is SO great! I tried saving newspapers in the 1980s because I knew they would try to rewrite

the history of those years. And they have. I was so upset that I couldn't take them with me when I moved, but now here this is to replace it! Thanks!!

[Poll_Blind]

57. +1 Great resource!

:thumbsup:

PB

[Better Believe It]

58. Let's keep this bumped for DU'ers who are away from home during the Holidays

Until the New Year.

[DainBramaged]

59. WOW I found the President's birth announcement

just kidding

[madinmaryland]

65. Pffth! I have a copy of his birth certificate from Kenya...

Courtesy of Orly Taits' web site. I saw it on teh internets so it must be true!!

:P

[DainBramaged]

67. Hey, I have his Mom's surgical gown, top that!

:evilgrin:

[proud patriot]

61. It's like Christmas All over again

:-)

[Raine]

63. VERY cool .... THANKS! nt

:hi:

[Better Believe It]

64. Kick

[BzaDem]

66. Kick.

Can't rec, since started +24 hrs ago

[Better Believe It]

69. Kick

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

70. k

[Bluenorthwest]

71. Kicking again

Because this has already been both fun and useful, and I am so glad to have learned of this tool. Thanks to the OP, again.

[Better Believe It]

72. Happy New Year Kick!

:)

[Better Believe It]

73. For DU'ers back from their holiday trips.