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[...] is done by staff and volunteers with very specific guidelines in order to avoid “scope creep.” With a staff of librarians, library students, and retired teachers the urge to correct details can be very strong and lead to a loss in production time. In order to keep the balance of processing time and improved search results, we will keep the correction limited to vital statistics, election results, significant place names and topical subject terms contained within an article. Priority would be placed on local topics or national events that [...]
[...] Newspaper Program (NDNP) award, an internal project team at the Washington State Library (WSL) was created, a search started for a project manager, and a request for proposal submitted to select a digitization and conversion vendor. By November 2008 a project manager was hired, an advisory committee convened, space for the project was arranged at the University of Washington (UW) and WSL, a vendor was selected, and equipment was purchased. [...]
[...] and The Spokane Press (LCCN: 88085947). Batch_wa_duwamish is in the hopper to be shipped within the week and will include a reel of the aforementioned Spokane Press and The Vancouver Independent (LCCN sn87093109)from the late 1800s. Neat stuff from 130 years ago! We received an upgrade of our docWorks software in February and met the CCS U.S. Systems Engineer, Tip Ros, at that time for training. It was great to meet Tip and we learned a lot more about the application that does our OCR processing, metadata management [...]
[...] http://www.secstate.wa.gov/library/docs/iii/charts/statesmanexaminer.htm Essay Draft Short version for LOC
In 1907 a group of Colville, Washington, democrats formed a corporation to produce a new weekly paper. They hired J. C. Harrigan, a twenty-nine year old newspaperman, to serve as editor. They also financed the purchase of modern printing equipment. Harrigan had learned his trade in the mining towns of Montana and had worked at such prestigious papers as the Seattle Post-Intelligencer [LCCN: [...]
[...] reels) - moved to substitute list Master film location unknown, UW may refilm History Continued by: Twice-a-week Bremerton news WSL publish history chart: http://www.secstate.wa.gov/library/docs/iii/charts/sun.htm Research N.W. Ayer & Son's American newspaper annual -- 1903 -- pg. 879 NDNP Candidate Title List (Appendix A1.2) Chronicling America record (LOC) - Bremerton news WorldCat [...]
NDNP Technical Guidelines TechNotes_2012-14 NDNP Related News
Hot off the press! The latest and greatest Washington NDNP news
NEH Approves Grant Extension through 2014
"We are very excited to announce that we will be able to continue our historic newspaper digitization project for an additional two years. The National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) is a collaborative grant program between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress, seeking to fund state newspaper digitization [...]
[...] DSpace yes yes Greenstone
website: http://www.greenstone.org/ spec sheet How to build a digital collection Most irritating ebook ever, available through UW Libraries. It is basically the how-to manual for greenstone. I failed to find much substance here. Greenstone developer's handbook, chapter on import and build processes News, reviews, and articles about Greenstone Bainbridge, D., Osborn, W., Witten, I.H. & Nichols, D.M. (2006). Extending Greenstone for Institutional Repositories. In Digital Libraries: Achievements, [...]
[...] Republican Party, but not without critical scrutiny by its publisher and editor Horace Cayton Sr. Begun as a weekly, the Seattle Republican aimed for both a national and biracial audience, reporting on events well beyond the borders of Washington State. It covered national political news in some depth, and is a particularly rich single source of information concerning the treatment and successes of African Americans all around the country, particularly in the South. But its primary focus [...]
[...] Size: sn83045610 (daily intelligencer - morning ed.) 24x36 Note: these measurements seem to be for a spread rather than individual pages - documented reduction ratio based on 18x24 ; sn83045610 (daily intelligencer - sat. ed.) 30x44; Note: Not sure what years these measurments cover or where they came from - LR 17x24 "24x36, 36x48 on Fridays in 1884" Editor: Publisher: Post Intelligencer Company Frequency: daily Coverage Region: King County: King county Unique ids LCCN: sn 83045604 OCLC: 9563195 Digitization plan e.g. 2010-2012 grant
Plan to digitize 1876-1892 [...]
[...] digitize 1898-1906 (2 reels)
History Succeeding titles: Washington State journal and Adams County news (sn87093057), Washington State journal (sn87093055) Related titles: NEH Approved Essay
In the spring of 1878, Philip Ritz led a group of white settlers into northern Adams County, Washington, staked off the land that would become Ritzville and within a year, began growing wheat. This tract of land had previously been a main thoroughfare used by the Nez Perce and other Pacific [...]
[...] the 1920s Aberdeen declared itself “The Lumber Capital of the World,” but the following decades saw a decline in industrial activity, the economic effects of which are still felt today. Hunt and Kaylor’s Washington, West of the Cascades (1917) describes the Aberdeen Herald as the city’s first newspaper. Politically, the paper supported the Democratic Party. According to J. Orin Oliphant’s “Newspapers of Washington Territory,” the weekly Herald started publication on October 20, 1886, under 18-year-old Harford Charles “Harry” Telfer. In 1887, according to Ayer’s Directory [...]
[...] their new enterprise, the Palouse Gazette [LCCN: sn 88085456]. During the spring and summer of 1877, news of the Nez Perce war sent a wave of panic through the white settlers of Palouse region of Washington Territory. Farmers abandoned their homesteads, seeking protection in the towns from a rumored uprising among the Palouse, Couer d'Alene and Spokane Indians. The tribes, for their part, were troubled by the sudden activity among the settlers. Fortunately, the misunderstanding was resolved without violence and [...]
[...] Star, 1911-1922 (UW) Top 2010-2012 Grant Titles Aberdeen Herald , 1890-1917 (UW) Adams County News (Ritzville, WA), 1898-1906 (WSL) Washington State journal and Adams County news (Ritzville, WA), 1906-1907 (WSL) Washington State journal (Ritzville, WA), 1907 (WSL) Ellensburg Dawn , 1898-1913 (UW) The Dawn (Ellensburg, Wash.), 1894-1898 (UW) Evening Statesman , (Walla Walla, Wash.), 1903-1910 (WSL) - imgs leftover from 2008 grant Kennewick Courier , 1905-1914 (WSL) Columbia Courier (Kennewick, Wash.), 1903-1905 (WSL) Labor Journal [...]
[...] 1894-1897 and saw that yes, the June 10,
1897 issue would indeed have been v. 3, no. 43 of Ranch. I put a note in
the bib record about the double numbering in a 515 field. 2) They were both published in North Yakima. 3) Ranch (Seattle, Wash.) (.b4083895x), which is most definitely the title
that continues Ranche and range, has the very same slogan that appears on
Ranch (North Yakima, Wash.): "A journal of the land and the home in the New
West."
The double numbering:
The last known issue of the old "Ranch" 1894-08-18, [...]
[...] (11 reels) from Proquest. History Continues: NA Continued by: NA
Essay Draft Thomas Neill was a lawyer and Irish immigrant whose ambition led him westward. He started his career as a newspaperman in the town of Dawson (ND), where he married Ada Allen. Frustrated with the pace of development in Dawson and lured by an magazine promotional piece, Neill became interested in the tiny town of Pullman in Washington Territory. He brought his editor, J. J. Sargent, and his wife with him where they founded the Pullman Herald together in 1881. [...]
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Essay Draft
According to his memoirs, Miller Freeman had only $3.00 and a bicycle when he decided to start his own newspaper in 1897. At the age of twenty-one, Miller was the last of his siblings to leave the shadow of his father, Legh Freeman, who had published numerous small papers while moving the family westward. Miller had learned printing while working on the Frontier Index [LCCN:sn84022156] (also known as the "Press on Wheels") and most recently the Washington Farmer [LCCN:see note]. When Legh refused to pay Miller for his continued [...]
[...] 1914-1915 (1 reel) Washington Socialist 1914-1915, The Northwest Worker 1915-1917, and Co-operative News 1917-1918 all appear on the same reel: A3099 Top History Preceding: The Commonwealth Succeeding: The Northwest Worker ; Co-operative News WSL publish history chart: Essay Draft The Commonwealth [LCCN:sn84025731], an Everett, Washington Socialist weekly, found itself deep in debt after only three years of publication. Though business manager Katherine Hodgins was able to make the paper pay its current bills and some of its debt [...]
[...] History Succeeding title: Related titles: Los Angeles Record, Seattle Star, Spokane Press, Portland News. These paper were also part of the Scripps-Canfield League (later Scripps League). Essay Draft The Tacoma Times was one of several west coast papers founded by E.W. Scripps. Scripps' approach to the newspaper business was to provide minimal funding for printing equipment and facilities in small or mid-sized cities. He would leave the day-to-day operation of the paper in the hands of ambitious young editors who were offered stock in the company. National content [...]
[...] origins reaching back to 1891, and its history reflects the rapid growth and changes experienced by a new state and its capital. In his History of the Puget Sound Country, John Prosser wrote, “Like the majority of journals, it Morning%20Olympian .ashx" title="the Morning Olympian ">the Morning Olympian has passed through various hands and sailed on both rough and smooth waters.” However, throughout its varied history the paper remained devoted to reporting the daily happenings of the growing state capital. Olympia was center stage for all the political happenings of [...]
[...] Norman Wallace Lermond and Ed Pelton of Maine decided that the best way to convert the United States to a Socialist system would be to start a network of communes in a sparsely populated state and peacefully gain control of the state government through elections. One the nation observed the general prosperity possibly under a Socialist system the entire country would soon follow their example. The plan was endorsed my leaders in the radical community. Because the state had ample natural [...]
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Ayer Annual 1 Publish day: Evenings, except Sunday; There is also a weekly edition published Saturday Content: Democratic Established: 1861 (weekly); 1880 (daily) Pages: 8 Size: 15x22 in. Editor: none listed Publisher: Statesman Publishing Co. Ayer Annual 2 Publish day: Evenings, except Sunday; There is also a weekly edition published Saturday Content: Independent Established: 1858 (weekly); 1880 (daily) Pages: 8 Size: 17x24 in Editor: Seth Maxwell Publisher: E. E. Fall Frequency: daily Coverage Region: Southeast County: Walla [...]
[...] be aware that these instructions are written for use with data from an MS Access 2007 database and a Windows operating system. Download QA_Report.tar v1 or QA_Report.zip v1 Feel free to download but please help us improve it by emailing me if you find bugs. Install Extract QA_Report and save it on your server or external hard drive. This script works best (and is faster) if you save the folder on the same drive as the batch your are testing (e.g. C:\NDNP\OUT\batch_wa_2009_sample and C:\NDNP\OUT\QA\QA_Report) save to same folder as the batch FYI: the pictured [...]
[...] The community of Leavenworth had been growing since the 1890s when the Great Northern Railway built a line through nearby Stevens Pass. The Lamb-Davis Lumber Co. built a large timber operation in the area. The town of Leavenworth was incorporated on July 28, 1906 and Deed Mayar was elected the first mayor. 7 News about the railroad industry is particularly well covered by this small-town paper. Timber and mining were also important in this region and accidents are frequently described. The activities of both [...]
[...] Annual 1 Content: Populist; Ind. Dem. Established: 1894 Pages: 4 Size: 13x20 ; 15x22 Editor: Robert A. Turner Publisher: Robert A. Turner Frequency: Saturday Coverage Region: County: Kittitas county Unique ids The reformer's dawn (OCLC #781972759, LCCN 2012252554); covers Nov. 1893-Jan. 1894. Dawn (Ellensburg, Wash. : 1894) (OCLC #17308839, LCCN sn 88085011); covers Aug. 4, 1894. The Weekly dawn (OCLC #781971529, LCCN 2012252559); covers Aug. 11, 1894-Jan. 12, 1895. Dawn (Ellensburg, Wash. : 1895) (OCLC #781973481, LCCN 2012252560); covers [...]
[...] W. (Edwin Willis) Scripps, newspaper businessman, once wrote "the best community in which to found a newspaper is one that is comparatively young and whose population has in very recent time increased." 1 . With a population of 40,000 and growing, Seattle, Washington in 1899 fit Scripps'description well. Scripps hired editor E. H. Wells to found his latest venture, the Seattle Star , on February 2, 1899. Scripps papers generally supported the principle of public ownership. The Star was a strong advocate of [...]
[...] 1917 the Socialist weekly The Northwest worker [LCCN:sn88085770] changed its name to the Co-operative News. This title lasted until at least June 1918. That last edition and the editions preceding it are filled with predictions of newspaper’s impending doom based on the federal government’s on-going suppression of other Socialist and radical publications taking place throughout the nation under the authority of the federal Espionage Act of 1917, as amended in April 1918. The Co-operative news continued to publish news [...]
[...] e.g. 2008-2009 grant
Plan to digitize 1907-1922 - 2 reels
History Preceding title: Vashon Island news (DLC)sn 92038389 ; Vashon Island record (DLC)sn 92038390 ; Succeeding title: Islander (Vashon, Wash.) (DLC)sn 92038388 Islander news-record (DLC)sn 87093322 (OCoLC)17239182 Related titles: Essay Draft
Essay Notes
Research N.W. Ayer & Son's American newspaper annual -- 1919-- 1012 Vashon Island Record N.W. Ayer & Son's American newspaper annual -- 1922-- 1041 Vashon Island News-Record NDNP Candidate [...]
[...] founded by the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1825. Strategically located along the Columbia River, the site was a primary headquarters for the British Company. In 1846, the United States and Britain settled on the 49th parallel as the demarcation between U.S. and British interests, and Fort Vancouver became American. The city of Vancouver was incorporated into Washington Territory in 1857. By this time, the importance of the fort had declined, and agriculture became the major industry in the area. The region grew throughout the 1860s due to an influx of prospective gold miners [...]
[...] Bartley. Theses and Dissertations Concerning the Pacific Northwest/Alaska Relating to Communication: A Subject Bibliography Through 1970. Seattle: University of Washington, 1994. Mitchell, Marlene. Washington Newspapers: Territorial and State: A Bibliography and Checklist . Unpublished masters thesis, Seattle: University of Washington, 1964. UW Libraries - Microforms and Newspapers Dept. Bibliography for Pacific Northwest Minority, Ethnic, and Special Audience Newspapers . Seattle : University of Washington, 2003.
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[...] Library of Congress NDNP Wiki (Laura Robinson WA) NDNP The National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) is a partnership between the NEH and the Library of Congress to provide enhanced access to United States newspapers. Ultimately, over a period of approximately 20 years, NDNP will create a national, digital resource of historically significant newspapers from all the states and U.S. territories published between 1836 and 1922. This searchable database will be permanently maintained at the Library of Congress (LC) [...]
