North Carolina Historic Newspapers recently finalized its list of newspaper titles on microfilm to digitize as part of its partnership with the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). The project’s advisory board met in the fall of 2012 to make a preliminary list of titles based on research value, geographic representation, temporal coverage and other selection criteria as defined by the NDNP. Project staff then inspected the selected titles’ microfilm for conformance to the NDNP’s technical requirements. The finalized list is comprised of 21 newspaper titles totaling 100,000 pages of North Carolina newspapers dating from 1836 – 1922. The digitized newspaper pages will be added incrementally to the Library of Congress’ collection of historic American newspapers on the Chronicling America website, with all pages to be delivered to the Library of Congress by the summer of 2014.
Runs from the following titles will be digitized:
Watauga Democrat, Boone
The North-Carolina Standard, Raleigh
The Asheville Citizen, Asheville
The Independent, Elizabeth City
Newbern Weekly Progress, New Bern
The Charlotte Democrat, Charlotte
Tarboro Press, Tarboro
Rockingham Post-Dispatch, Rockingham
Fisherman & Farmer, Edenton and Elizabeth City
The Review, High Point
The French Broad Hustler, Hendersonville
The Durham Daily Globe, Durham
The Semi-weekly Messenger, Wilmington
The Sun, Fayetteville
Journal of Freedom, Raleigh
The Gold Leaf, Henderson
The Weekly Caucasian, Clinton, Goldsboro and Raleigh
The Progressive Farmer, Winston and Raleigh
The Western Democrat, Charlotte
Wilmington Journal, Wilmington
Cherokee Scout, Murphy
Project titles distributed across North Carolina can be found on this map:
North Carolina Historic Newspapers Available via Chronicling America.
North Carolina Historic Newspapers has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: We the People. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this post do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.