Library of Congress Newspaper Digitization

12 Historic Gems From One of the Best Time Capsules Online

The Library of Congress's sprawling newspaper-digitization project just published its 10 millionth page

Adrienne LaFrance | October 7, 2015

There are now 10 million pages in the Library of Congress’s massive digitized database of historic American newspapers. The Chronicling America collection amounts to some 74 terabytes of data, and it includes news accounts from more than 1,900 newspapers in dozens of states and territories between 1836 and 1922.  

Source: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

The database is a rich resource, but it’s also the best kind of Internet rabbit hole: You go in looking for one thing, and encounter a dozen fascinating oddities along the way. I tend to gravitate to the here-and-there coverage, daily snippets and stories that offer glimpses of what life was like a century or more ago. (The pages that detail bigger news events, like the sinking of the Titanic, are fascinating, too.)

<more at http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/old-newspaper-gems/409270/; related links: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ (Chronicling America. Historic American Newspapers) and http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/ (National Digital Newspaper Program)>