The Division of the Alaska State Libraries, Archives and Museums received notice on Friday, April 4th, that the current National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) Grant to Alaska was cancelled. The Division and the Department of Education and Early Development are working together to determine next steps. We will continue …
Perjured Petroff and the Bering Sea Case
Perjured Petroff A peek into the historical record reminds us that misinformation is nothing new. Take the curious case of one Ivan Petroff (sometimes spelled Petrof or Petrov), a man with a penchant for spin who, according to historian Terrence Cole, "holds the distinction of probably telling more lies about Alaska that were believed for …
Alaska awarded 4th newspaper grant!
https://www.neh.gov/news/neh-announces-315-million-226-humanities-projects-nationwide We are happy to say that the National Endowment for Humanities recently announced that Alaska would receive a 4th grant in the National Digital Newspaper Project, covering 2022-2024. This means that the Alaska Digital Newspaper Project will be able to add an additional 100,000 pages of Alaskan newspapers to Chronicling America! We are excited …
More Alaskan Newspapers!
Good News Everyone! Since our last update post on March 21st we have added over 40,000 pages of Alaskan newspapers to ChroniclingAmerica.loc.gov! These pages contain over 6000 issues from 34 newspaper titles over a period of more than 50 years of Alaska's history. Here's the breakdown of our newest uploads: The "J" Bird, 1932 - …
Fashion upheaval in the 1930s
Fashion and culture changes over time but once in a while, someone gives it a push to help it along. One shove came in 1930 with the movie Morocco, starring Marlene Dietrich. In the most famous scene from the film, Dietrich appears on camera wearing a tuxedo and during a performance number gives a kiss …
Looking for newspaper issues!
Hi Readers, We're putting out the call here at the Alaska Digital Newspaper Project for issues of The Alaska Spotlight! Do you or anyone you know still hold copies of this newspaper? If so, let us know! The Alaska Spotlight was an Anchorage weekly that started in 1952 and ended sometime in the 1960s. The …
More Alaskan newspapers online!
If you're a fan of old Alaskan newspapers then we have good news for you: two more batches of newspapers have been uploaded to the Library of Congress' website, Chronicling America! These two new batches, named bow head whale and killer whale, contain over 22,000 newspaper pages across more than 2500 issues. These issues come …
New batches uploaded!
Our work here at the Alaska National Digital Newspaper Project continues and the Library of Congress has accepted and uploaded two new batches of Alaskan newspaper pages since our last post. These latest batches, nicknamed jaeger and icelandgull, contain over 3,000 newspaper issues and more than 22,000 pages covering the time period from 1923 through …
Old titles and new batches
Our New Years resolution to bring you more Alaskan newspapers is going swimmingly so far as our latest batch, Halibut, has been uploaded to ChroniclingAmerica. You can view this batch online here or see all of the titles we have uploaded here! As always, our website provides a geographic breakdown of the different titles that …
New titles online!
Good News Everyone! Two new batches of data from the Alaska Digital Newspaper Project are now online at https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ Our batches, arcticfox and iceworm, contain over 5000 newspaper issues from the following titles: Fort Wrangel News (1898-1898) Stikeen River Journal (1898-1899) Alaska Sentinel (1902-1909) The Wrangell Sentinel (1909-1956) The Nome Daily Nugget (1906-1914) The Nome …
Old Alaskan newspapers coming your way!
October and November were exciting months here at the Alaska Digital Newspaper Project. We submitted 5 new batches of newspaper issues to the Library of Congress and all 5 were accepted! This means that in the next few months you should be able to find the following on Chronicling America: -We will have several new …
Pull Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps
We've all probably heard the phrase “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” at some point in our lives. This common phrase has been a tried and true saying in American discourse since the 19th century, but what does it actually mean? The image connected with this saying – literally pulling yourself up by your bootstraps …
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