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[...] Performance Report
(September 1, 2012—March 31, 2013)
NEH Award Number: PJ-50038-08
NDNP State: Washington
Submitted By: Shawn Schollmeyer
Report Date: March 31, 2013 REPORT NARRATIVE 1. Describe any changes that you have made or that you anticipate making in the project work plan or methodology from the award proposal submitted to the competition . No major changes will be implemented during our third grant cycle though we are working on fine tuning the OCR correction process. By deciding to outsource our early stages of image processing, the de-skewing and [...]
Working group Loryn Lestz , WA-NDNP Project Assistant, University of Washington Rachel Foshag , WA-NDNP Project Assistant, University of Washington Glenda Pearson , University of Washington, 206.685.1645 | 206.543.4164 Jessica Albano , University of Washington, 206.543.4164 | 206.685.1637 Judy Pitchford , Washington State Library, 360.704.5254 Marlys Rudeen , WA-NDNP Director, Washington State Library, 360.704.7132 [...]
[...] NDNP Awardee Final Report
(July 1, 2008 – June 30, 2010)
NEH Award Number: PJ50038-08
Project Name: Washington State Digital Newspaper Project
Awardee Institution: Washington State Library
NDNP State: Washington
Project Director: Marlys Rudeen
Project Manager: Laura Robinson
Report Date: September 30, 2010 Project Activities Project Administration Upon notice of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) award, an internal project team at the Washington State Library (WSL) [...]
[...] Digitization plan 2010 grant
Plan to 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 [...]
[...] and completing his portfolio before he graduates this June. Kate Ratcliff is a familiar face at the Washington State Library and UW as a recent graduate from their MLIS program. In between jobs at UW in Seattle and indexing political comics for a local cartoonist, she is volunteering in our WSL office assisting with processing. We have four volunteers in total contributing to about 15 hours per week of our processing and research time. Karen and Barb, retired school teachers from Olympia, appear every Tuesday at WSL and are great fun to work with. They have been steadily [...]
[...] sn88085769 OCLC: ocm18197849 Digitization plan 2008-2009 grant
Plan to digitize 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 [...]
[...] Editor: Publisher: John M. Murphy Frequency: Weekly, Semi-weekly in 1921 Coverage Region: Olympia, Washington Territory County: Thurston County Unique ids LCCN: sn84022770 OCLC: 10580261 Digitization plan 2012-14 grant
On sub list to digitize 1860-1921 (18 reels)
History Other edition title: Olympia Daily Standard Related titles: Twice-a-week Washington Standard NEH Approved Essay [...]
[...] 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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2012-2014 Grant Titles Washington Standard , 1860-1921 (WSL) Seattle Post-Intelligencer , 1876-1900 (UW) Seattle 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 [...]
[...] 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 work on the papers, Miller decided to leave the family enterprise and start his own. Though the Washington Farmer was ostensibly an agricultural journal, Legh Freeman had employed it as a political organ supporting William Jennings Bryant. Young Miller, who had witnessed the struggle to found the state agricultural college, saw that there was a need for a [...]
[...] 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 projects and make select titles available through the Chronicling [...]
[...] inhabited by Wanapum Indians, the naturally arid area that would later become the community of Kennewick, Washington, was avoided by white settlers for much of the 19th century after being described by a Hudson’s Bay Company governor as exceptionally “sterile.” This changed temporarily in the 1880s and again in the early 1890s with the construction of a railroad bridge over the Columbia River and a few failed irrigation schemes. However, Kennewick’s population growth began in earnest when the Northern Pacific Irrigation Company began advertising farmable land in 1902. The [...]
Overview WSL's Historic Newspapers of Washington is the repository for and online presentation of issues of historic newspapers throughout Washington State. Purpose Historic Newspapers in Washington will serve as the integrated search and browse interface for digital issues of Washington Pioneer Newspapers (volunteer indexed pre-statehood newspapers) and the full-text searchable newspapers (OCRd text, issues published before 1923) digitized as part of the NDNP grants. [...]
[...] 1914-1915 Related titles: NEH Approved Essay
Robert A. Turner, a newspaperman from Missouri, moved to Washington for health reasons in 1890. He and his wife, Minnerva, first settled in Seattle, but when he could not secure an adequately affordable space for his paper plant, they moved to Ellensburg in 1891. In November 1893, Turner began publishing a 12-page monthly, the Reformer’s Dawn LCCN sn88085011 , to advocate for the People’s Party and the Populist movement which “was sweeping westward with wonderful strength and had just reached Kittitas county in force,” according [...]
[...] largest city in Grays Harbor County (known as Chehalis County until 1915), situated on the central Washington coast. Named for Aberdeen, Scotland, the city is located at the confluence of the Chehalis and Wishkah Rivers, just east of Grays Harbor itself. The first white farmers settled in the area in the 1860s; in the following decades, Aberdeen blossomed into an industrial city that boasted numerous sawmills and salmon canneries. By the 1920s Aberdeen declared itself “The Lumber Capital of the World,” but the following decades saw a decline in industrial activity, [...]
[...] (1897-1900) Related title: The Gem State miner (Old Town, Ida.) 1971-current NEH Approved Essay
Newport, Washington, is located in the Pend Oreille Valley on the Washington/Idaho border. It was established in 1895 when townspeople from Newport (now Oldtown), Idaho migrated west with the Great Northern Railway line. Newport grew steadily as settlers developed agriculture (alfalfa and cattle), logging, milling (lumber and saw), and mining industries. The origin of the Newport Miner is a subject of debate amongst local historians. Many believe [...]
[...] 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 the newspapermen were able to start the first weekly paper in the town of Colfax by the end of September. The paper was renamed the Colfax Gazette in 1893 [...]
[...] 2009-06-29 Digitizing 1894-1912 (title changes from Ranch to Ranche and Range > The Ranch (Seattle) > Washington Farmer ) (8 reels) Top
History Continued by: Ranche and Range , Ranch (Seattle) , Washington Farmer WSL publish history chart: Essay Draft The Ranch [LCCN: 2007252175] The first issue of the Ranch came off the press of the Yakima Herald [LCCN: sn88085523] on January, 20th, 1894. During the same year C. P. Wilcox, W. H. Wilcox, George N. Tuesley, and Ranch editor Edgar Libby formed the Yakima Publishing Company and bought [...]
[...] public informed about Labor issues and perspectives. The need for such information is explained by the Washington State Federation of Labor (WFL) in History of the Washington State Federation of Labor, 1902-1954 , which states, “For the most part the daily papers and some weekly papers, in times of industrial disputes and on other matters, have either taken a lukewarm attitude toward the labor side or have been openly hostile.” By focusing on issues relevant to local unions, the Journal enjoyed continued support and readership in the thousands. [...]
Seattle Star. Sept. 24, 1910
View Washington Newspapers at chroniclingamerica.loc.gov This is a project wiki. It tracks the progress of the Washington State Library's participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program . With a grant from the National Endowment for Humanaties , the Washington State Library is participating in the National Digital Newspaper Program; an effort to digitize early (pre 1923) issues from newspapers around the United States. Currently Washington [...]
[...] 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. Brothers-in-law Wilford, Ira, and Karl, who each would later serve as editors, soon followed. Fire and water are early themes in the history of Pullman, and their interplay is well-documented in the pages of this paper. Fires in 1886 and 1887 had decimated the city's business district. The civic-minded Herald began a series of editorials [...]
[...] the Post-Intelligencer reported on the historic constitutional convention in Olympia, which prepared Washington for statehood. Hit hard during the national financial Panic of 1893, Hunt was forced to sell the paper to a group of Ohio-based investors in 1894. Under new leadership and with a renewed fiscal commitment, James D. Hoge increased the P-I’s circulation and eliminated many of its previous competitors; only the Seattle Daily Times LCCN sn86072007 remained.
Having survived fire, financial disasters, and feverish competition, the newspaper reported in July 1897 [...]
[...] 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: sn 83045604] and the Spokane Spokesman Review [LCCN: sn 84024754], but was enchanted by Colville. He purchased [...]
[...] ample natural resources, a fair climate, and a population generally sympathetic to liberal causes, Washington was chosen as the site for this experiment. The Equality Colony was founded in September 1897 near the town of Edison. The national headquarters of the BCC opened offices in Edison in 1898. Though some local papers had been courteous toward the colonists, other reports had been less favorable. In order to better communicate with the outside world and with members of the BCC who did not live in Washington the group decided to publish [...]
[...] 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 a 1902 ballot initiative to allow the city to generate its own power, for instance. 2 When editor Wells proposed starting a newspaper in Tacoma (Washington), Scripps proposed borrowing money [...]
[...] [LCCN: sn86063742]. The Tacoma Times was edited by some of the first graduates from the University of Washington's journalism program. Roy Pinkerton was part of the first class to graduate from the program in 1911 and began editing the Times in 1915 . He left the paper in 1921 and after editing a few other Scripps papers founded the Ventura County (CA) Star [LCCN: sn95062154] in 1925. Another UW graduate, Ralph Benjamin, took Pinkerton's place in 1921. His first editorship had been at the Olympia Recorder [LCCN: sn88085358]. He served as editor-in-chief of the Scripps-Canfield [...]
[...] happenings of the growing state capital. Olympia was center stage for all the political happenings of Washington State, and the Morning Olympian dutifully covered the all legislative news of the day. It was published every day except Monday, from 1898 to 1927. Like many papers at the time, the paper was backed by a political party and its Republican leanings led to a healthy rivalry with the Democratic Washington [...]
[...] Online News release Seattle Post Intelligencer x x x x Seattle Star x x x + + x + + x Washington Standard x + + Note: x (finished), + (partial or in progress) Top 2010-2012 Progress Chart Title Duplication Evaluation Scanning OCR QA Essay Delivered Online News release Aberdeen Herald x x x x x x x x x Adams County News x x x x x x x x x Ellensburg Dawn x x x x x x x + Evening Statesman x x x x x x x x x Kennewick Courier x x x x x x x x x Labor Journal x x x x x x x x Lynden Tribune [...]
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Ayer Annual 1 Publish day: Content: Established: Pages: Size: Editor: Publisher: Frequency: Coverage Region: County: Unique ids SN: OCLC: History Continues: Continued by: WSL publish history chart: Essay Draft The Northwest Worker was published in Everett, Washington during a particularly violent chapter in local history. News coverage of this Socialist weekly focused on the unsuccessful reelection campaign of a Socialist city commissioner James M. Salter, the paper’s financial struggles, [...]
Contact For questions re: WA-NDNP contact Shawn Schollmeyer , Washington State Library, 360.570.5568 | 360.480.9538 See also Working Groups for more contacts 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 [...]
