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    Online Newspaper archives

    Folks-

    I'm in need of some online 19th C. newspaper archives. 1840s - 1860s. Especially Southern. I know there are some floating out there, can you post for me your favorites?

    Thank you,

    Greg Starbuck
    The brave respect the brave. The brave
    Respect the dead; but you -- you draw
    That ancient blade, the ass's jaw,
    And shake it o'er a hero's grave.


    Herman Melville

    http://www.historicsandusky.org

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    Re: Online Newspaper archives

    Greg,
    I'm sure you know about this archive at the Library of Virginia but just in case, here's the link:
    http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/index.htm
    Also, here's a page full of The Richmond Dispatch
    http://www.mdgorman.com/Hospitals/camp_lee.htm
    Hope this helps....if you look around on that website a little you will also find articles from The Richmond Whig and The New York Times.
    Luke Gilly
    37th VA Inf.
    Breckinridge Greys
    Lodge 661 F&AM


    "May the grass grow long on the road to hell." --an Irish toast

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    Re: Online Newspaper archives

    Vicki Betts has transcribed a number of southern newspapers available at
    http://www.uttyler.edu/vbetts/
    Carolann Schmitt
    cschmitt@genteelarts.com
    19th Annual Ladies & Gentlemen of the 1860s Conference, February 28-March 3, 2013

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    Re: Online Newspaper archives

    While not southern I thought I would put it out here for someone that may not have found it yet.

    The New York Times archives for 1851-1980.

    http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?srchst=p
    Respectfully,

    Jeremy Bevard
    Sally Port Mess
    Historic Fort Wayne Coalition
    Old Northwest Volunteers

    "If the men pursue the enemy as vigorously as they do the whores they will make very efficient soldiers."
    Charles B. Haydon, 2nd Michigan-May 6, 1861

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    Re: Online Newspaper archives

    "Nineteenth Century American" and "Nineteenth Century British Newspapers." Both are subscriber-only sites, but, if you're looking for something in particular, shoot me a PM and I'll see what I can dig up.

    Regards,

    Mark Jaeger

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    Re: Online Newspaper archives

    Greg,

    The University of Richmond has hundreds of transcriptions available from the Richmond Daily Dispatch:

    http://dlxs.richmond.edu/d/ddr/

    As Luke pointed out, Mike Gorman's Civil War Richmond site, is a treasure for anything relating to both the War and Richmond...and I don't hesitate to search beyond the link which has been posted for that site.

    Personally I'm in search of Newspapers which may have circulated from the following Virginia Counties/Cities: Amelia, Albermarle, Brooklyn, Charlotte, Halifax, Louisa, Lynchburg, Goochland and Pittsylvania.

    Paul B.
    Paul B. Boulden Jr.


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    (Loblolly Mess)
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    Waggoner's Company of the Virginia Regiment

    Company of Military Historians
    Museum of the Confederacy
    Historic Sandusky

    Inscription Capt. Archibold Willet headstone:

    "A span is all that we can boast, An inch or two of time, Man is but vanity and dust, In all his flower and prime."

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    Re: Online Newspaper archives

    Newspaperarchive.com is the subscription service I use. It's a little pricey, but I've had very good results with it. I don't know about other services, but this allows you to download .pdfs of pages.
    Bob Welch

    Dirty Shirts
    Cornfed Comrades

    The Eagle and The Journal
    My blog, following one Illinois community from Lincoln's election through the end of the Civil War through the articles originally printed in its two newspapers.

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    Re: Online Newspaper archives

    Two more sources:

    Accessible Archives is a subscription database that has several antebellum and Civil War era newspapers (as well as the complete run of Godey's Lady's Book). http://www.accessible.com/accessible/

    The Brooklyn Daily Eagle can be found at http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.o...sp?Skin=BEagle
    Carolann Schmitt
    cschmitt@genteelarts.com
    19th Annual Ladies & Gentlemen of the 1860s Conference, February 28-March 3, 2013

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    Re: Online Newspaper archives

    The Valley of the Shadow has newspapers and other information for Augusta County Virginia from 1859 - 1870

    http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/

    Regards,
    Kevin French

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    Re: Online Newspaper archives

    http://nines.org/

    nines.org is an organization dedicated to digitizing nineteenth-century primary source material and scholarship.
    Christopher J. Daley

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