From the Announcement:
On Sept. 17, the National Digital Newspaper Program added more than 192,000 historic newspaper pages to the Chronicling America Web site, hosted by the Library of Congress. The site now provides free and open access to 1,442,000 pages from 171 titles, that were published between 1880 and 1922 in 15 states and the District of Columbia. This most recent update expands date coverage for many titles already represented in the site and includes content from 4 new states–Arizona, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington.
In addition to new content, the site also now includes links to other ways to use the searchable newspapers available in Chronicling America, including:
- links to Topic guides for events and subjects found in Chronicling America,
- links to use of Chronicling America in the LC Flickr photostream,
- and detailed documentation of the Chronicling America API.
Chronicling America passed the one million digitized page mark in June.
See Also: Now Available: Webcast: One Millionth Page in Chronicling America (8/2009)
Source: National Endowment for the Humanities, Library of Congress
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