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The FPRDNP: Accessing Historical Newspapers

Melissa Jerome Project Coordinator Sarah “Moxy” Moczygemba Outreach and Promotion Assistant

Florida & Puerto Rico Digital Newspaper Project

• FPRDNP is part of the National Digital Newspaper

Program (NDNP)

• Digitizing historical newspapers
• published in FL & PR
• 1884-1922
• Current content
• 40 FL titles, 2 PR title
• ~230,000 total pages

Our Workflow

Select titles Duplicate reels Collation Digitize material Quality review Ingest

1 2 3 4 5 6

2TB hard drive Microfilm reel Microfilm reader/scanner

Content Locations

Florida Papers 1880s-1922 Puerto Rico 1836-1907

Content In Includes

• International
• World War I
• Spanish American War
• Travel Technologies
• Heads of State
• National
• Governance and Elections
• Suffrage Movement
• Prohibition
• Sports News
• Presidents and their Families
• Ads for National Brands
• Nativism

From The Ocala Evening Star November 4, 1908. Article retrieved from Chronicling America. From The Daytona daily news January 8, 1910. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.

Content In Includes

• Florida
• State Politics and Elections
• Creation of University

System

• Travel Reports
• Entertainment
• Agricultural Reports
• Railways and Steamboats
• Natural Disasters

From La Democracia (San Juan, PR) June 9, 1902. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.

• Puerto Rico
• Governance
• News from Spain
• International News
• Epidemics
• Sale of Land and

Slaves

From The Ocala evening star (Ocala, FL) June 17,

• 1916. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.

Access

Chronicling America

ChronAm is a database of historic newspapers published in the United States and its territories

• date range expanded from

1836-1922 to 1690-1963 Currently houses over 11 million pages of newspapers contributed from 40 states and one territory

chroniclingamerica.loc.gov

ChronAm continued

Usefulness:

• Preservation
• Broader Access
• Primary Sources
• First hand accounts- news as it happened!
• User friendly

ChronAm fu functions

Search options:

• General
• Advanced
• All newspapers

chroniclingamerica.loc.gov

Advanced Search

chroniclingamerica.loc.gov

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.

About the papers

Optical Character Recognition

• Chronicling America is

fully searchable

• Not perfect technology
• Extraneous marks on page
• Unusual Fonts
• Misreading text or

combining words

• Be patient with searches

and think outside of the box

• Context
• Time period

From the Monroe City Democrat (Monroe City, MO) August 22, 1907. Image Retrieved from Chronicling America. From The Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, FL) August 16, 1908. Article retrieved from Chronicling America.

Search Tips

When searching think about…

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

bodies

From the Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, Fla.) August 26,1914. Image Retrieved from Chronicling America. From the Enterprise Recorder (Madison, Fla) July 14, 1910 Image Retrieved from Chronicling America.

Known OCR Is Issues

From the Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, Fla.) May 3,1913. Image Retrieved from Chronicling America. From the Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, Fla.) February 16, 1913. Image Retrieved from Chronicling America.

A Note on Historical Language

Examples

From The Punta Gorda Herald (Punta Gorda, FL) February 12, 1920. Article retrieved from Chronicling America. From The Punta Gorda Herald (Punta Gorda, FL) January 29, 1920. Article retrieved from Chronicling America From The Punta Gorda Herald (Punta Gorda, FL) August 7, 1919. Article retrieved from Chronicling America

Punta Gorda

Punta Gorda

From the Punta Gorda Herald (Punta Gorda, Fla.) June 23,

• 1922. Retrieved

from Chronicling America. From the Punta Gorda Herald (Punta Gorda, Fla.) November 13, 1919. Retrieved from Chronicling America.

Resources

• Library of Congress’ Genealogy Reading Room http://www.loc.gov/rr/genealogy/
• National Archives http://www.archives.gov/research/genealogy/
• The United States Census https://www.census.gov/history/
• The University of Florida
• UF Digital Collections http://ufdc.ufl.edu
• Florida History guide http://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/floridahistory
• Local societies and organizations
• Florida Historical Society https://myfloridahistory.org/library
• Florida Department of State Archives http://dos.myflorida.com/library-archives/
• Florida Memory https://www.floridamemory.com/
• Florida State Genealogical Society http://www.flsgs.org/
• University of Glasgow Historical Thesaurus http://historicalthesaurus.arts.gla.ac.uk/

These resources AND more on our libguide: http://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/ufndnp

Keep in Touch!

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Contact us! Project Team: ufndnp@uflib.ufl.edu Melissa Jerome: mmespino@ufl.edu Sarah “Moxy” Moczygemba: s.moxy@ufl.edu