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That Was A Good Idea, Keeping Count. The Library Of Congress Achieves Ten...
could be no. 6,568,116 possibly no. 8,745,522 And the Virginia Newspaper Project was there. At Chronicling America‘s start in 2007 as well as today in continuing to provide digitized Virginia...
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US News Map: Newspaper Coverage over Space and Time
This will be quick because we want you to drop what you’re doing and try out the latest newspaper resource. When alert colleagues at the Virginia Newspaper Project find a research tool or web site that...
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more dreadful than the most gruesome of tales: Newspaper Coverage of The East...
Photograph of Ocey Snead, taken December 21, 1907. From the Grantham Bain collection of glass negatives In 1909, a mystery unfolded that was so shocking, it’s nearly too strange to believe today. Shows...
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Portraits of a Prophet: 100 Years of Nat Turner in Print
“I have a horrible and heart-rending tale to relate,” read a letter from the editor of the Norfolk Herald and printed in the Sept.3, 1831 issue of the Genius of Liberty, “and lest even its worst...
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To-night is Halloween!
By Claire Johnson, Newspaper Project Intern Happy Halloween From the VNP! In honor of the spookiest of holidays, here’s a look back at how Richmonders of the past celebrated Halloween. For young women...
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Virginia Chronicle and Chronicling America
If you read this blog, you might know that the Virginia Newspaper Project (VNP) contributes digitized newspapers to two websites, Chronicling America and Virginia Chronicle. These sites are...
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WWI Centennial Anniversary –“Queens of the Spy World”
By Kyle Rogers, LVA Newspaper Project volunteer In recognition of the centennial anniversary of the Allies’ victory in World War I, the Newspaper Project remembers the “Queens of the Spy World Whose...
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Back to School
By Kyle Rogers, LVA Newspaper Project volunteer As the start of the K-12 school year looms, and college students gear up for their fall semester, the Library of Virginia peers back at how the...
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Assembling The Digital Page: Team VNP Attends National Digital Newspaper...
The Library of Congress, Madison Building. Meeting place for the 2018 National Digital Newspaper Program Conference. What’s true of most conferences was true of ours last week in Washington: An...
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Breaking News! Now available on Virginia Chronicle!
The following titles are now on Virginia Chronicle: Virginia Beach WeeklyThe Musical Advocate and Singer’s FriendAlexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & PoliticalAlexandria Gazette, Commercial and...
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