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3.7 Million Digitized (and Searchable) Newspaper Pages Now Accessible From "Chronicling America" Database

Filed by on May 22, 2011

The 3.7 million page total was announced via the Chronicling America RSS feed the other day. It also said that 230,000 newspaper pages in various titles were just added to CA.

Current Chronicling America Database Totals:

“The site now provides access to more than 3.7 million searchable newspaper pages from 506 newspaper titles, published in 22 states and the District of Columbia between 1860 and 1922 .”

See Also: So Long and Goodbye! Google Is Ending Newspaper Digitization Project

See Also: Milestones: National Library of Australia Newspaper Digitisation Program Passes Five Million Pages Online

About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.

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