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British newspaper front pages are displayed at a supermarket and on a screen, all carrying the headline that Britain's Catherine, Princess of Wales, has revealed she is undergoing preventative chemotherapy, after tests taken following abdominal surgery in January revealed cancer had been present, 23 March 2024.
📷: REUTERS / Toby Melville
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yeoldenews · 2 days
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i recently came across some newspapers my family kept from the 1950s-- i'd love to scan them and donate the papers, but i'm not sure how to go about looking for historians who'd be interested. do you have any advice?
The first thing I'd do is dig around online just to double check that they haven't already been digitized. There have been some HUGE newspaper digitization projects just in the last five years or so, and new newspapers are being put up online pretty much every day.
Searching for "location + title of newspaper + "newspaper archives"" should give you a good idea of what's already been done. Even if the sites are pay-to-access they usually let you do a search for free.
The US, Australia and New Zealand all have ongoing national digitization projects you can also check.
If you're in the US/Canada, the majority of states/provinces have their own digitization projects where you can find additional information. (Just search for State/Province name + "newspaper archives").
If it doesn't look like the papers you have have been digitized anywhere - these projects (especially the state-level ones) would be a good place to contact. Oftentimes they have dozens of newspapers that are still waiting to be scanned, so it's also possible they do have copies even if they aren't online yet. If they don't have any copies of the newspaper issues you have, they may be interested in them.
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yesterdaysprint · 7 months
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Daily Mirror, England, April 8, 1920
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beggars-opera · 3 months
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Boston Globe, December 31st 1923
The really funny thing is there WAS a female crime wave in 1924 and it was so high-profile there's now a famous musical about it
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nobrashfestivity · 3 months
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“It seemed as if all the stars in heaven were being hurled from their places and cast unto the earth.” -- unknown newspaper clipping in the Shankland Nashville History Scrapbook
Tennessee State Archives
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huariqueje · 1 month
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The round table  - Carl Gustafsson , 2022.
Swedish , b, 1952 -
Oil on canvas , 46 x 46 cm.
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retropopcult · 2 months
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Kansas City bookstore, 1950s
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temiree · 2 months
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This was the comic I made for The Neopian Times on Neopets, which celebrated it's 1000th issue today. Neopets, and the comics that appeared in The Neopian Times way back between 2001 and 2005, were the primary reason I got into character art myself. I eventually did some comics of my own, called The Near Side, which you can see some of here. I believe all this was the primary reason I got into character art, and why I'm a professional character artist today. If you look at my style, you can probably see shades of the Neopets art style in it.
Sadly, the comic was rejected and not included in the issue, so that sucks, especially since I spent my days off this week to make it. I doubt I'll find out why it didn't make the cut, but it was nice to get to draw these guys again. Back to focusing on my own IP, I guess!
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saywhat-politics · 2 months
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The rack price for the weekly newspaper is $1, so someone spent $12 opening racks and removing all the newspapers, the publisher said.
Nearly all the copies of a small-town Colorado newspaper were stolen from newspaper racks on the same day the Ouray County Plaindealer published a story about charges being filed over rapes alleged to have occurred at an underage drinking party at the police chief’s house while the chief was asleep, the owner and publisher said Friday.
Mike Wiggins vowed to get to the bottom of it, posting Thursday on X, formerly Twitter: “If you hoped to silence or intimidate us, you failed miserably. We’ll find out who did this. And another press run is imminent.”
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shiftythrifting · 4 months
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found 9/11 news papers on facebook marketplace
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pratchettquotes · 7 months
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Hughnon sighed. "Words are too important to be left to machinery. We've got nothing against engraving, you know that. We've nothing against words being nailed down properly. But words that can be taken apart and used to make other words...well, that's downright dangerous. And I thought you weren't in favor, either?"
"Broadly, yes," said the Patrician. "But many years of ruling this city, Your Reverence, have taught me that you cannot apply brakes to a volcano. Sometimes it is best to let these things run their course. They generally die down again after a while."
"You have not always taken such a relaxed approach, Havelock," said Hughnon.
The Patrician gave him a cool stare that went on for a couple of seconds beyond the comfort barrier.
"Flexibility and understanding have always been my watchwords," he said.
"My god, have they?"
"Indeed."
Terry Pratchett, The Truth
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life-spire · 11 months
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yeoldenews · 3 months
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I know we live in a very different world now, but I find it concerning how the newspapers printed all these kids' addresses. Did any harm ever come from that, to your knowledge?
I feel like the concept of your address being private information is a very modern one. Any news story until the mid-20th century (and much later in small towns/rural areas) would include the addresses of the individuals involved. Even the smallest towns printed yearly city directories that listed everyone's current address and occupation. So I can't imagine anyone would hesitate to publish a child's address, as why bother concealing what was already considered public information?
Furthermore, the concept of stranger kidnapping - and 'stranger danger' in general - was not something that really entered the public consciousness in the US until the 1920s, and even then the vast majority of kidnappings were for ransom. It was something that happened to rich people, usually in big cities.
It wasn't until several extremely high profile kidnappings of children in the late 20s/early 30s (namely Marion Parker, Walter Collins and Charles Lindbergh Jr.) that the concept of a stranger taking your child would probably have even crossed the mind of the average parent.
Additionally it's important to understand that the role of small town newspapers (where most of the Dear Santa letters are from) was something closer to Facebook or the Nextdoor app than a source of important news. Going on a trip? It's in the newspaper. Having a small dinner party? That's getting reported, along with the guest list, menu, party favors and any decorations you put up. Your child built a particularly nice snowman? There's a reporter here and entire town will know before dinner time.
So is it possible that some burglar used a Dear Santa letter to target the home of a wealthy child sometime in the 1890s? Sure? But I can't see why in an era where if you wanted to know where someone lived you could stop any random person on the street and say "Hey, where do the Johnsons live?" and no one would hesitate to tell you.
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yesterdaysprint · 1 year
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Daily News, New York, New York, June 14, 1931
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newyorkthegoldenage · 3 months
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Men reading newspapers on the El, ca. 1945.
Photo: Jeanne Ebstel via the Keith de Lellis Gallery
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theclasharchives · 29 days
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the clash in record mirror on decemebr 22nd 1979. full article here!
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