Chicago Tribune (now 2004)

[Fred Shapiro]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

>    Ah, they've discovered that the 19th century Chicago Tribune is
> nearly illegible.  No surprise there!  You spend hours and hours

I was at a ProQuest Historical Newspapers demonstration where they asked
for suggestions for other newspapers to digitize.  I suggested the Boston
Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, Baltimore Sun, St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
Atlanta Constitution, San Francisco Chronicle and Rocky Mountain News (I
probably should have said New Orleans Times-Picayune as well) among
current papers, and also said they should do some defunct but historically
important papers such as New York Herald and New York Tribune.  In case I
get another chance to make suggestions, are there any others I should push
for?

Fred Shapiro


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