[Corpora-List] Texts 1900-1970

[Mark Davies]

> Does anyone know of any freely downloadable or searchable 
> corpora or text collections which contain English texts 
> spanning (at least) the period 1900-1970? 

> Try newspapers archives on the net. You may need to (freely or not)
subscribe to the sites. 
> The New York Times Archive
(http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nytimes/advancedsearch.html) 
> goes back to 19th century

I have a follow-up question on this.  I'm looking for periodicals from
1900-1970, but I need texts that are in text format and might be
downloaded (even for a fee).  While the New York Times is nice, the
search results just take you to a PDF file. Even with Adobe Acrobat or
other PDF>TXT conversion programs, the resulting PDF file can't be saved
as text.

I would imagine that some other newspapers contain (downloadable)
text-format articles from probably the 1970s on.  While this would be
nice, I'm particularly interested in "popular culture" periodicals from
1900-1970 (magazines like Good Housekeeping, Seventeen, Reader's Digest,
etc [examples from the US]).  Because of the dates, there would
undoubtedly be copyright/licensing issues, but it would nevertheless be
nice to know if such text-based resources exist in the first place.

Thanks in advance for any leads others might have.

Mark Davies

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Mark Davies
Assoc. Prof., Linguistics
Brigham Young University
(phone) 801-422-9168 / (fax) 801-422-0906

http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu

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