[Ads-l] Databases for Historical U.S. Searching

[Bonnie Taylor-Blake]

Two examples come to mind, Fred.

I was able to find a 1922 appearance of "the whole six yards" (sorry,
everyone) in that Georgia database and several "whole mary anns"
(1909-1925) in that California database. I couldn't (and didn't) find them
over at Chronicling America.

I'm not sure whether the latter has holes or whether some small-town
newspapers just aren't offered up to Chronicling America or whether I'm
just not skilled at using that database, but these experiences have
prompted me to dig into these and other state databases whenever I can.

-- Bonnie

On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 8:06 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

Thanks, Bonnie, for your usual helpfulness.  But I have always assumed that
> all these state newspaper databases are covered by searching Chronicling
> America.  Is that not true ?
>
> Fred Shapiro
>
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> Subject: Re: Databases for Historical U.S. Searching
>
> I find that the following also come in handy sometimes, mostly because I
> sense that some of the newspapers in these collections haven't appeared in
> some of the better known databases.
>
> Georgia Historic Newspapers:
> https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cfred.shapiro%40YALE.EDU%7C519e60adfd3a478fbdbf08da59621a89%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C637920575136374271%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=9q%2F9C%2BYbBgniyk80M2I6CAELTy%2BlmZ4Kq62mRSASjZg%3D&reserved=0
>
> A similar one for Texas:
> https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftexashistory.unt.edu%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cfred.shapiro%40YALE.EDU%7C519e60adfd3a478fbdbf08da59621a89%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C637920575136374271%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3MXncmz0ziPnGb65zqvDWy8LIff9%2B86OkkBh7JGMmuc%3D&reserved=0
>
> California Digital Newspaper Collection:
> https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdnc.ucr.edu%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cfred.shapiro%40YALE.EDU%7C519e60adfd3a478fbdbf08da59621a89%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C637920575136374271%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=GsBMFgFPBYaf0L3x1rlC%2Bv41C6%2B8u4zgpgEdQt6Dvls%3D&reserved=0
>
> Hoosier State Chronicles:
> https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnewspapers.library.in.gov%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cfred.shapiro%40YALE.EDU%7C519e60adfd3a478fbdbf08da59621a89%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C637920575136374271%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=VrXsMeHZTZAtWcI6pKj0M38B9%2BOVKLhBsa9OfWhuj8Y%3D&reserved=0
>
> (TBH, poking around to see what each state has to share for its historic
> newspapers sometimes helps.)
>
> Yours in competitive antedating,
> Bonnie
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 7:40 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
> wrote:
>
> I am trying to do comprehensive searching for a certain phrase in U.S.
> > newspapers or books or periodicals from the 1824-1878 period.  I have
> > already searched the following databases:
> >
> > Newspapers.com
> > NewspaperArchive
> > ProQuest Historical Newspapers
> > America's Historical Newspapers
> > GenealogyBank
> > Chronicling America
> > 19th Century U.S. Newspapers
> > Fulton History
> > Accessible Archives
> > JSTOR
> > HeinOnline
> > Google Books
> > Internet Archive
> > HathiTrust
> >
> > Am I missing any U.S. databases from this time-peirod ?
> >
> > Fred Shapiro
> >
> >
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