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th Century Early 20 th ry New Reli ligious Movements and Historical Newspapers Melissa Jerome Project Coordinator, FPRDNP Some Digital Newspaper Repositories ProQuest Institutional Affiliation Required Access Newspaper Archive

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Early 20th

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ry New Reli ligious Movements and Historical Newspapers

Melissa Jerome Project Coordinator, FPRDNP

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Some Digital Newspaper Repositories

  • ProQuest
  • Institutional Affiliation Required
  • Access Newspaper Archive Academic Library Edition
  • Institutional Affiliation Required
  • Readex/Newsbank
  • Institutional Affiliation Required
  • LexisNexis
  • Institutional Affiliation Required, UF discontinuing subscription
  • Google News
  • Open Access
  • Florida Digital Newspaper Library
  • Open Access
  • Chronicling America
  • Open Access
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National Dig igital Newspaper Program

  • “ a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities

(NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. Supported by NEH, this rich digital resource will be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of

  • Congress. An NEH award program will fund the contribution of content from,

eventually, all U.S. states and territories”

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Our Workflow

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Selected titles

NDNP 2013 1)Ocala Evening Star: 22,800 2)Ocaleean Ensign: 24 3)Punta Gorda Herald: 3,200 4)Palatka News: 342 5)Palatka News & Advertiser: 3,600 6)The Palatka Daily News: 3,600 7)Palatka Daily News: 2,800 8)Pensacola Journal: 15,400 9)Gazeta de Puerto-Rico: 51,400 NDNP 2015 1)Pensacola Journal 2)Daytona Daily News 3)Lakeland Evening Telegram 4)La Democracia 5)La Correspondencia de Puerto Rico

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In Ingest

All content: 1)Chronicling America (ChronAm) chroniclingamerica.loc.gov 2)Florida & Puerto Rico Digital Newspaper Project ufdc.ufl.edu/ndnp

English content:

  • Florida Digital Newspaper

Library (FDNL) ufdc.ufl.edu/newspapers Spanish content:

  • Digital Library of the Caribbean

(dLOC) dloc.com

  • Biblioteca Digital Puertorriqueña

bibliotecadigital.uprrp.edu/cdm

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Content & Functionality

Search options

  • General
  • Advanced
  • All newspapers
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Advanced Search

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Additional Functions

Zoom in/out by clicking these

  • buttons. Can

also use mouse scroll Full screen view! Use these options to change page Use these options to change issue Save pdf Zoom in and clip something

  • f interest.
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Optical Character Recognition

  • Automated process that converts printed

text into computer readable text

  • Chronicling America is fully searchable
  • Not perfect technology
  • Extraneous marks on page
  • Unusual Fonts
  • Misreading text or combining words
  • This means that it isn’t as accurate as a

search engine (like Google)

  • Be patient with searches and think
  • utside of the box.

From The Pensacola Journal August 16, 1908. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.

Search Term: Catholic Search Term: Thailand

From The Monroe City Democrat (Monroe City, MO) August 22, 1907 Image Retrieved from Chronicling America

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About the Papers

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Tips

When searching think about…

  • Vocabulary
  • Historic spelling and typos
  • Change in terms
  • Search parameters
  • Change scope to get more useful results
  • Diversify name searches
  • Affiliated organizations, businesses, and governing

bodies

From the Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, Fla.) November 8,1914. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.

From The weekly true Democrat (Tallahassee, Fla.) October 26, 1906. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.

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Why Language Matters

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Historical Tone

  • Obituary for Swami Vivekananda
  • Hindu who presented at the World

Parliament of Religions in Chicago during 1893

  • Introduced Hinduism to America
  • In this article:
  • Faker spelled “Fakir”
  • “Hindustan” instead of India
  • Argued the “supremacy of the Buddhist

doctrines”

  • No author name, so no way to know why

someone would write this From The Palatka News and Advertiser August 14, 1902. Image Retrieved from Chronicling America.

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Mormons

  • Founded by Joseph Smith Jr. in

New York in 1820s

  • Controversial for a number of

reasons including stance on Polygamy which was renounced in 1890

  • Common by early 20th century,

but not normalized in the public eye

From Pensacola Journal October 29, 1910. Article retrieved from Chronicling America

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From The St. Lucie County tribune October 15, 1909. Article retrieved from Chronicling America. From The Pensacola journal January 15, 1905. Article retrieved from Chronicling America

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Koreshan Unit ity

  • Started in New York in the 1870s
  • Moved to Chicago in 1888
  • Moved to Estero, FL in 1894
  • Leader Cyrus Teed
  • Died in 1908
  • Believed he was going to return

from the dead-didn’t

  • Last member gave land to

Florida in 1961 to form a state park

  • Koreshan State Historic Site

From The Ocala evening star September 12, 1895. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.

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From The Ocala evening star December 26, 1908. Article retrieved from Chronicling America. From The Palatka news and advertiser September 6, 1912. Article retrieved from Chronicling America. From The St. Lucie County tribune June 4, 1909. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.

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Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp

  • Established 1894 North of

Deltona, FL by George P. Colby

  • Medium known for séances
  • Cassadaga is a U.S. Historic

District

  • “Psychic Capital of the World”
  • Still an active community

From Daytona daily news March 10, 1909. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.

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From Daytona daily news December 15, 1909. Article retrieved from Chronicling America From DeLand news April 9, 1909. Article retrieved from Chronicling America

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How to Cit ite Historical Newspapers

  • Cite like you would any other newspaper

following the guidelines of a particular style (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.)

  • Including the date you accessed it
  • Provide the persistent/permalink

available via the scissors icon in the page view.

  • Permalink is for the entire page
  • From this page you can also download

image and print

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Resources

  • The United States Census

https://www.census.gov/history/www/genealogy/decennial_census_records/census_records_2.html

  • Topics in Chronicling America http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/topicsAlpha.html
  • Bureau of Vital Statistics http://www.floridahealth.gov/certificates/
  • Library of Congress’ Genealogy Reading Room http://www.loc.gov/rr/genealogy/
  • National Archives http://www.archives.gov/research/genealogy/
  • University of Glasgow Historical Thesaurus http://historicalthesaurus.arts.gla.ac.uk/
  • The University of Florida Library Catalog http://library.ufl.edu
  • The USGenWeb Project http://usgenweb.org/
  • Local societies and organizations
  • Florida Historical Society https://myfloridahistory.org/library
  • Florida Department of State Archives http://dos.myflorida.com/library-archives/
  • Florida State Genealogical Society http://www.flsgs.org/
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Keep in Touch

Links: facebook.com/ufndnp twitter.com/ufndnp ufndnp.wordpress.com pinterest.com/ufndnp ufdc.ufl.edu/ufndnp

guides.uflib.ufl.edu/ufndnp Contact us! Project Team: ufndnp@uflib.ufl.edu

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Contact Us!

Sarah “Moxy” Moczygemba s.moxy@ufl.edu Melissa Jerome mmespino@ufl.edu