The FPRDNP: Accessing Historical Newspapers Melissa Jerome Project Coordinator Sarah “Moxy” Moczygemba Outreach and Promotion Assistant
Florida & Puerto Rico Digital Newspaper Project • FPRDNP is part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) • Digitizing historical newspapers • published in FL & PR • 1884-1922 • Current content • 40 FL titles, 2 PR title • ~230,000 total pages
Our Workflow 3 2 1 Duplicate Collation Select titles reels 6 4 5 Quality Digitize Ingest review material
Microfilm reel Microfilm reader/scanner 2TB hard drive
Content Locations Puerto Rico 1836-1907 Florida Papers 1880s-1922
Content In Includes • International • World War I • Spanish American War • Travel Technologies • Heads of State • National • Governance and Elections • Suffrage Movement • Prohibition • Sports News From The Ocala Evening Star November 4, 1908. Article • Presidents and their Families retrieved from Chronicling America. • Ads for National Brands • Nativism From The Daytona daily news January 8, 1910. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.
Content In Includes • Florida • Puerto Rico • State Politics and Elections • Governance • Creation of University • News from Spain System • International News • Travel Reports • Epidemics • Entertainment • Sale of Land and • Agricultural Reports Slaves • Railways and Steamboats • Natural Disasters From The Ocala evening star (Ocala, FL) June 17, 1916. Article retrieved from Chronicling America. From La Democracia (San Juan, PR) June 9, 1902. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.
Access
Chronicling America ChronAm is a database of historic newspapers published in the United States and its territories -date range expanded from 1836-1922 to 1690-1963 Currently houses over 11 million pages of newspapers contributed from 40 states and one territory chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
ChronAm continued Usefulness: • Preservation • Broader Access • Primary Sources • First hand accounts- news as it happened! • User friendly
ChronAm fu functions Search options: • General • Advanced • All newspapers chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
Advanced Search chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
Additional Functions Use these options Use these options Save pdf Full screen view! to change page to change issue Zoom in/out by Zoom in and clicking these clip something buttons. Can of interest. also use mouse scroll
About the papers
Optical Character Recognition • Chronicling America is fully searchable • Not perfect technology • Extraneous marks on page • Unusual Fonts • Misreading text or combining words • Be patient with searches and think outside of the box • Context • Time period From the Monroe City Democrat (Monroe City, MO) August 22, 1907. Image Retrieved from From The Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, FL) August Chronicling America. 16, 1908. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.
Search Tips When searching think about… • Vocabulary • Historic spelling • Change in terms • Typos • Search parameters • Change scope to get more useful results • Diversify name searches • Affiliated organizations, businesses, and governing bodies From the From the Enterprise Pensacola Journal Recorder (Madison, (Pensacola, Fla.) August Fla) July 14, 26,1914. 1910 Image Retrieved Image Retrieved from Chronicling from Chronicling America. America.
Known OCR Is Issues From the Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, Fla.) May 3,1913. Image Retrieved from Chronicling America. From the Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, Fla.) February 16, 1913. Image Retrieved from Chronicling America.
A Note on Historical Language
Examples
Punta Gorda From The Punta Gorda Herald (Punta Gorda, FL) February 12, 1920. Article retrieved from Chronicling America. From The Punta Gorda Herald (Punta Gorda, FL) January 29, 1920. Article retrieved from Chronicling America From The Punta Gorda Herald (Punta Gorda, FL) August 7, 1919. Article retrieved from Chronicling America
Punta Gorda From the Punta Gorda Herald (Punta Gorda, Fla.) June 23, 1922. Retrieved From the Punta Gorda Herald (Punta Gorda, Fla.) from November 13, 1919. Retrieved from Chronicling Chronicling America. America.
Resources • Library of Congress’ Genealogy Reading Room http://www.loc.gov/rr/genealogy/ • National Archives http://www.archives.gov/research/genealogy/ • The United States Census https://www.census.gov/history/ • The University of Florida • UF Digital Collections http://ufdc.ufl.edu • Florida History guide http://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/floridahistory • Local societies and organizations • Florida Historical Society https://myfloridahistory.org/library • Florida Department of State Archives http://dos.myflorida.com/library-archives/ • Florida Memory https://www.floridamemory.com/ • Florida State Genealogical Society http://www.flsgs.org/ • University of Glasgow Historical Thesaurus http://historicalthesaurus.arts.gla.ac.uk/ These resources AND more on our libguide: http://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/ufndnp
Keep in Touch! Links: facebook.com/ufndnp twitter.com/ufndnp ufndnp.wordpress.com pinterest.com/ufndnp ufdc.ufl.edu/ufndnp guides.uflib.ufl.edu/ufndnp Contact us! Project Team: ufndnp@uflib.ufl.edu Melissa Jerome: mmespino@ufl.edu Sarah “Moxy” Moczygemba: s.moxy@ufl.edu
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