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[...] Ayer Annual 1 Content: Independent Established: 1903-1949 Pages: 4 Size: 17x22 in. Editor: Publisher: Tacoma Times Publishing Co.; Yakima Herald Pub. Co. (later 19??) 3 Frequency: Daily (evening, except Sun.) Coverage Region: Pierce 2 County: Pierce Unique ids LCCN: sn88085187 OCLC: 17347623 Digitization plan 2008-2009 grant
Plan to digitize WSL's 1909-1918 reels (24 reels) and UW's 1903-1904; 1907 reel (1 reel) Also checking on paper copies Substitute for now. Checking to see where negatives are. History Succeeding title: Related titles: Los Angeles Record, [...]
[...] 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 [...]
[...] 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 Northwest Native tribes and is located 65 miles southwest of Spokane. By 1881, the Northern [...]
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 projects and make select [...]
[...] 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 record - Bremerton news WSL record - Bremerton News UW record - Bremerton News [...]
[...] partners’ institutions (non-NDNP-funded). Over the past year, the University of Washington Microforms and News (MicNews) Department, where we have an office for our Washington NDNP processing, has been working with the Hokubei Hochii Foundation in identifying a select range of the North American Post, a Japanese American paper published in the Seattle area, for digitization. At my suggestion they have selected a small group of papers, post-World War II years 1946-48, to start with as a pilot batch to learn the basic process of creating files, delivering derivative files to [...]
[...] 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 [...]
[...] Titles Industrial Freedom - 00211108484 Washington Socialist (w/ Northwest Worker , Co-operative News , Commonwealth ) - 00211108496, Seattle Star - 00211107479, 00211107509 Batch errors No significant batch errors found (2010/03/11, drb)
Top Gilia This batch was later combined with the Sample batch after LC let us know that batches cannot be combined on one hard drive. Titles Ranch , Ranche and Range and Ranch (Seattle) (4 reels - 00211107728, 0021110773A, 00211107741, 00211107753) Seattle Republican , Daily Republican , Republican , (1 reel - 00211100503) [...]
[...] columns regularly. The area is noteworthy for its silver mining, timber, and agricultural industries. News, history, and legends of the nearby Spokane and Colville Indian tribes were included. News related to surveying activities on the Columbia River anticipating the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam appears occasionally. Reports of bootlegging and liquor smuggling were frequently related due to the community's proximity to the Canadian border. Harrigan was a witty and self-effacing writer who commented upon local, state, and national [...]
[...] that Shawn Moriarty, an early member of the NDNP team, has decided to resign from WSL. But the good news is she'll be able to spend more time with her daughter Nina, future digital librarian extraordinaire. They also make appearances in the department from time to time to get that "early librarian learning time in. Judy Pitchford will be taking on some additional hours to help with NDNP processing in ShawnM's place. Thanks everyone!!!! January 5, 2012 A New and Exciting 2012!
Happy New Year from WA-NDNP!
We have ambitious goals ahead of us as we're gearing up for [...]
[...] Milestones
2012-2014 Progress Chart Title Duplication Evaluation Scanning OCR QA Essay Delivered 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 [...]
[...] of causes such as public ownership of utilities. Unlike its sister papers in western Washington (the Tacoma Times [LCCN: sn88085187] and Seattle Star [LCCN: sn2008253048], the Spokane Press did not prove to be profitable. Under most circumstances the paper would have closed immediately, but Scripps conceived of the Press as a "buttress" paper that strengthened the Seattle "pillar" paper by providing news from eastern Washington to the Seattle Star and other Scripps papers. It was therefore allowed to continue printing, subsidized by the [...]
[...] 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 was local party politics and Seattle's African American community. It became a daily in February 1896 in order to publish a newly revised City Charter and help the daily Seattle Post Intelligencer outmaneuver its rival the Seattle Times , but it quickly reverted [...]
[...] 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 the newspapermen were able to start the first weekly paper [...]
[...] 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, Challenges and Opportunities, 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2006, Kyoto, Japan, November 27-30, 2006(pp. 303-312). Berlin: Springer. Abstract: We examine the problem of designing a generalized system for building institutional repositories. [...]
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Newspaper Titles
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 [...]
[...] Sun-pilot [LCCN: sn88087026]. By 1909 the Tribune had been purchased by Dan Cloud, former editor of the Tacoma Daily News [LCCN: sn86072044] and future owner of the Montesano Vidette [LCCN: sn87093197]. On October 19, 1911, Herman Rosenzweig became the proprietor of the Tribune after Cloud fell ill. In October of 1914, Sol H. Lewis took ownership of the paper. Lewis was among the first graduates of the University of Washington’s journalism program. After graduation, he taught journalism at the University of Kansas for two years, then went to [...]
[...] 11 moves and more than 17 owners, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer as of March 2009 no longer prints news in broadsheet, but remains an active force in the world of digital publishing.
Soon after its creation, the Post-Intelligencer experienced a number of challenges and frequently changed owners for over a decade. After acquiring the paper in 1874 and publishing under the name the Daily Intelligencer , David Higgins resold the paper in1878 to then editor Thaddeus Hanford who quickly expanded the P-I while absorbing two rival publications: the Puget Sound Dispatch [...]
[...] 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 [...]
[...] communication from the Library of Congress (LC) regarding the upload and availability of newspaper pages, news was announced via the Washington State Library blog and press releases for each title were sent to media, the advisory committee, museums, schools, and other interested parties to announce the availability of new content on Chronicling America. Due to state budget reductions, the project team lost two Digital Project Librarians (one at the beginning of the grant and one half way through), both of whom had a total of 13 hours a week devoted to the NDNP grant. While [...]
[...] 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, and labor turmoil in Everett, leading up to and following the infamous “Everett Massacre” of November 5, 1916. The paper was formerly known as the Washington Socialist [LCCN:sn88085769]. Faced with relatively low circulation numbers, the paper sought to expand its coverage to the entire Pacific Northwest [...]
[...] 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 Standard LCCN sn84022770 . But, Olympia wasn’t all about politics. In 1898, with a population of about 6,000 the city was a bustling seaport with thriving timber, farming, and mining industries. In 1898, the Morning Olympian was owned by [...]
[...] 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 and farmers and much of the paper is devoted to news [...]
[...] phone Contract awarded to OCLC 2008-10-23
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[...] 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 businessmen and labor unions were reported, as well as the entertainment events of the town, which ranged from saloon brawls to theatrical events and an annual Chautauqua. News [...]
[...] of alcohol was a heated topic in Pullman. The Herald promoted the "dry" side and in 1907 the Pullman News was started to argue the "wet" side. The town had a third paper at that time (the Pullman Tribune [LCCN: 88087185]).. The fight was quite bitter, but by 1910 Pullman was declared "dry." In 1911 the News [...]
