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Group: rec.music.ragtime · Group Profile · Search for LOC releases online historic newspapers in rec.music.ragtime
Author: mill267
Date: Sep 9, 2008 08:09

...about yesterday's release of a new searchable historic newspaper collection. Some ...which offershistoric newspaperspreviously unavailable online. Read the website release announcement below for ...-searchable site is available atwww.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/. "Chronicling America" is ... than 134 million items -- books, newspapers, periodicals, manuscripts, maps, photographs, films,...
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Group: rec.music.ragtime · Group Profile · Search for LOC releases online historic newspapers in rec.music.ragtime
Author: mill267
Date: Sep 9, 2008 08:09

...about yesterday's release of a new searchable historic newspaper collection. Some ...which offershistoric newspaperspreviously unavailable online. Read the website release announcement below for ...-searchable site is available atwww.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/. "Chronicling America" is ... than 134 million items -- books, newspapers, periodicals, manuscripts, maps, photographs, films,...
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Group: rec.music.ragtime · Group Profile · Search for LOC releases online historic newspapers in rec.music.ragtime
Author: sattalla
Date: Mar 23, 2007 11:43

... which offers historic newspapers previously unavailable online. Read the website release announcement ...-searchable site is available atwww.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/. "Chronicling America" is ...> Web site, an accompanying national newspaper directory of bibliographic and holdings ...> than 134 million items -- books, newspapers, periodicals, manuscripts, maps, photographs, films, ...
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Group: rec.music.ragtime · Group Profile · Search for LOC releases online historic newspapers in rec.music.ragtime
Author: sattalla
Date: Mar 22, 2007 13:26

...which offers historic newspapers previously unavailable online. Read the website release announcement below...searchable site is available at www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/. "Chronicling America" is produced... Web site, an accompanying national newspaper directory of bibliographic and holdings ... than 134 million items -- books, newspapers, periodicals, manuscripts, maps, photographs, films, ...
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Group: rec.music.ragtime · Group Profile · Search for LOC releases online historic newspapers in rec.music.ragtime
Author: Bill Edwards
Date: Mar 27, 2007 09:09

...program will go to the server to retrieve the full resolution page. LoC did what they could with their budget. I currently work with ... of these inherent issues. We may yet get involved with an LoC contract on this scope, although my company seems more gung-ho about...at (in Flash) was Ragtime As Old As Man: http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/ndnp:583612/display.html?n=0&scope=fulltext&pageNum=...
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Author: sattalla
Date: Mar 27, 2007 07:36

... is what I'm used to with other online newspaper archives, but I don't understand what was going on when I tried ...The only remaining difference I see between this archive and most other major online newspaper archives (aside from the extra step of needing to select PDF when others use PDF exclusively) is that these newspapers were scanned in grayscale rather than black and ...
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Author: sattalla
Date: Mar 27, 2007 12:15

You're right, Bill, that the default images are Flash. If you click on the HTML option at the top of the page, you can find PDF and JP2. The black DC papers are outstanding resources. For instance, using the "exact phrase" option, try a search on Ernest Hogan. I've already seen some interesting ragtime or ragtime-related items in the other papers, too. However, I have student essays to ...
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Author: edberlin36
Date: Mar 24, 2007 21:11

This is a great tool for locating articles, but I've been unable to make satisfactory prints. Working from the primary document, the prints are either too small or too faint. Using PDF, the printed documents are too small or overflow beyond printable areas. I can take a snapshot from PDF and create a legible file, but the file doesn't print. I've downloaded a JP2 version but haven't been...
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