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[...] 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 text-zoning stages, we are speeding up some of the [...]
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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) 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 [...]
[...] 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 the paper in 1909 and continued editing it for forty years. [...]
[...] Reports
April 26, 2012 Spring Report Production
We've really picked up speed with two more batches out the door and the next one in the data verfication stage. Batch_wa_bumping and batch_wa_columbia were shipped at the end of March and mid-April respectively. They have been received at the LC receiving center and are waiting to be approved and uploaded by LC. Newpspaer titles that will be uploaded from these batches include The [...]
[...] order 2008-12-01 History Preceding: Palouse Gazette (Colfax, Wash) 1877 - 1893 3 Related Title: The Colfax Commoner (Colfax, Wash) 1911 - 1932 3 Succeeding: The Gazette-commoner (Colfax, Wash) 1932 - 1958 3 WSL publish history chart: http://www.secstate.wa.gov/library/docs/iii/charts/whitman.htm Essay Draft Charles B. Hopkins and Lucien E. Kellogg were delayed in starting their new enterprise, the Palouse Gazette [LCCN: sn 88085456]. During the spring and summer of 1877, [...]
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Ayer Annual 1 Content: Republican? Established: 1898 Pages: 8? Size: 18 x 24? Editor: Publisher: Olympian-Tribune Pub. Co. Frequency: Daily, Except Monday Coverage Region: Olympia, County: Thurston County Unique ids LCCN: sn88085354 OCLC: 17372151 Digitization plan 2012 grant
On sub list to digitize 1898-1922 (46 reels)
History Succeeding title: Daily Olympian Related titles: Olympian NEH Approved Essay
Morning Olympian , LCCN sn88085354 [...]
[...] Annual 1 Content: Republican Established: 1868/1876 Pages: 12 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 [...]
[...] Approved Essay
Aberdeen Herald LCCN sn87093220 Aberdeen Weekly Herald LCCN sn90099799 Aberdeen is the 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 [...]
[...] reels), perhaps also 1905 from WSL (1 reel) History Preceding titles: Yakima Democrat?, preceded by the Signal Succeeding title: Yakima_Morning_Herald Related titles: Yakima Daily Republic Essay Notes 1989-02-26 Yakima Herald Republic article: 1889 M Reed and James R Coe buy subscription list from Democrat, start "independent" paper. Reed worked for JM Adams at the Signal. Bought the Signal. Coe bought the Signal, changed the [...]
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Text not converted this grant cycle Digitized 1903-1910 (22 reels) Top History Continues: The statesman (Walla Walla, Wash.), 1901-1903 Continued by: WSL publish history chart: http://www.sos.wa.gov/library/docs/iii/charts/wallawalla.htm NEH Approved Essay
The first newspaper in Walla Walla County was the "Washington Statesman" [LCCN: sn84022799], founded in 1861 as an independent weekly. Two pairs of newspaper entrepreneurs had separately obtained presses in order to begin a newspaper in the [...]
Succession
Cataloger writes :I can't remember now if the titles were connected in the existing OCLC
records. But in any case, I decided to connect Ranch (North Yakima, Wash.)
(.b57920357) to Ranche and range (.b57920503) because: 1) The issues for June 10, 1897- were called new ser. v. 1, no. 10- and also
old ser. v. 3 , no. 43-. I was puzzled by the double numbering, but then I
counted things out on calendars for 1894-1897 and saw that yes, the June [...]
[...] written to compare WSL's newspaper input data (i.e. data created for NDNP during reel evaluation) to the NDNP output after data conversion (i.e. the batch, mets issue and mets reel files). You may be able to adapt the script for use but 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 [...]
[...] to digitize 1907-1912 (5 reels) History Preceding title: Newport Pilot (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 [...]
[...] Republican , Caytons Weekly , Caytons Monthly Essay Draft
Final Seattle Republican - final draft Draft The Seattle Republican was Seattle's first truly successful African American newspaper. Out of seven black newspapers to appear in the city between 1891 and 1901, it alone survived into the early 20th century. First issued on May 19, 1894 and continuing until 1913, the paper (initially called simply the Republican ) represented the [...]
[...] 1875-1884 - 8 reels
History Preceding title: Succeeding title: Related titles: NEH Approved Essay
The settlement of Vancouver was 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 [...]
[...] 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. Brothers-in-law Wilford, Ira, and Karl, who each [...]
[...] 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 Jan. 19, 1895-Mar. 11, 1898 The Ellensburg dawn (OCLC #17308844, LCCN sn 88085012); [...]
[...] 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 [...]
[...] 1914 Seattle Star NEH Approved Essay E. 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. [...]
[...] Courier LCCN sn87093028 and Kennewick Courier LCCN sn87093029 Originally 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 [...]
[...] in this grant cycle 1909-1922 (3 reels)
History Continues: Related titles: NEH Approved Essay The Labor Journal [LCCN: sn88085620] was the official paper of the Everett Trades Council, the Central Labor Council of Everett, and the Everett, WA chapter of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) until it ceased publication in October 1978. Originally published in 1891 as an annual newsletter for the [...]
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 [...]
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Ayer Annual 1 not included Content: collectivist (The Equality Colony of Skagit County) Established: 1898 Pages: 4 Size: 15 x 22 in. Editor: none listed Publisher: The Brotherhood of the Cooperative Commonwealth Frequency: Weekly Coverage Region: Northwest County: Skagit Unique ids LCCN: sn88085617 OCLC: ocm18032509 Digitization plan 2008-2009 grant
1898-1901 (1 reel) History Continues: na Related titles: na Essay Draft
The Brotherhood of the [...]
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Plan to digitize 1904-1922 (6 reels) History Continues: Current Continued by: NA Essay Draft The first issue of the Leavenworth Echo was published January 15, 1904 by Deed H. Mayar. 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.
[...] WSL's film - 1899-1914 (9 reels) History Preceding title: Islander (Friday Harbor) Essay Draft The Islander was first published by James Cooper Wheeler on March 6, 1891 in Friday Harbor, Washington. Friday Harbor is located on San Juan Island in the Puget Sound about half-way between Bellingham, Washington and Victoria, British Columbia. The paper included news from nearby Orcas Island and Lopez Island. The inhabitants of the islands were mostly fishermen [...]
[...] reels) History
NEH Approved Essay
Lynden Tribune (LCCN: sn88085445)
Washington State Library The town of Lynden is situated near the Canadian border in northwest Washington State. The Nooksack Indians dominated this area prior to the 1870s. English and Scandinavian settlers incorporated the city in 1891, but an economic depression caused the population to drop significantly by 1900. At this time, Dutch immigrants started [...]
[...] 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 [...]
[...] Suggested by Glenda Pearson 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 [...]
[...] edition label is "last Edition". It would probably be better if "last" was capitalized in order to match the style of other edition labels. major error: sn87093407\00211107492\1910072201 issue 1910-07-23 is in this folder, should be moved to its own folder. minor issue: sn87093407\00211107480:1910-04-14, 1910-04-16, 1910-04-19; 00211107455: 1908-12-22, 1908-11-14; 00211107352: (1904-09-21 through 1904-10-01), 1904-10-07, 1904-09-08 are missing edition label information in the xml file. 1904-10-07 seems to be fine, reported the [...]
[...] converted this grant cycle Digitized 1905-1910 (13 reels) Top History Continues: NA Continued by: The Wenatchee World 1971-current WSL publish history chart: NA NEH Approved Essay The Wenatchee Daily World was founded in 1905 by C.A. Briggs and Nat Ament, as a Republican paper. The paper was the town’s first daily newspaper and initially consisted of four pages. In 1907, Briggs and Ament sold the ailing paper after threats were made on their lives [...]
