{"id":510,"date":"2021-02-05T11:24:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T20:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/?p=510"},"modified":"2021-09-06T16:21:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T00:21:45","slug":"old-newspapers-and-images-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/old-newspapers-and-images-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Newspapers and Images Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Research old newspapers and Photographs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chronicling America at the Library of Congress<\/a>. Many Newspapers from 1777 to 1963 are available in digitized format. You can view or download images or pdfs of individual pages.<\/p>\n<p>Copy the text by clicking the Text button at the top right of the image window. Sometimes the text is nearly perfect and sometimes it requires extensive editing. You can search for specific newspapers or search by person\u2019s name or location. In the early 1900s, newspapers listed who was registered at local hotels or traveling by steamship. It\u2019s worth trying a search for a relative\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p>Also look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/collections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">other digital collections<\/a> available from the Library of Congress here. Maps, photographs and collections of letters are available.<\/p>\n<p>Every year more documents are entering the public domain. Generally, that means that you can download and use or quote from materials in the public domain. <a href=\"https:\/\/lifehacker.com\/these-1923-copyrighted-works-enter-the-public-domain-in-1825241296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LifeHacker<\/a> gives more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research old newspapers and Photographs Go to Chronicling America at the Library of Congress. Many Newspapers from 1777 to 1963 are available in digitized format. You can view or download images or pdfs of individual pages. Copy the text by clicking the Text button at the top right of the image window. Sometimes the text [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}