September 10, 2014 Texas Digital Newspaper Program: Two Million Pages Preserved Recently, the Texas Digital Newspaper Program (TDNP) reached two million pages of Texas newspapers on The Portal to Texas History. Made digitally available from microfilm, physical pages, and PDF e-print editions (more) featured Collections … The Canyon City News The city of Canyon was founded by… Read more »
Yearly Archives:: 2014
Beyond the Bytes, August 27, 2014
August 27, 2014 recently added Collections … Bellaire Area Newspapers The city of Bellaire, inside the Houston metropolitan area, was founded in 1908 by William Wright Baldwin, the vice president of Burlington Railroad. It was begun as a residential neighborhood and continues to be dominated by residences today, which is why it is known as… Read more »
Beyond the Bytes, August 1, 2014
August 1, 2014 Recently added collections … The Jasper News-Boy The Jasper News-Boy was founded by Captain Edward Irwin Kellie who had come to Texas after working as a news boy in New Orleans. Kellie worked for a newspaper in Galveston and then for the Sabine Times until 1860. After the Civil War he set… Read more »
The Paducah Post: A Historical Preservation Effort that Will Live in Perpetuity
This past weekend, I had the very great honor to travel to Paducah, Texas, and meet up with their newspaper publisher, Jimmye Taylor, and the Cottle County librarian, Becky Tucker. Jimmye contacted me last week, out of the blue, asking if we could digitize her newspaper, The Paducah Post. She was retiring and would… Read more »
Spring Cleaning: A Pun Read
Now that warm weather is finally returning in the Northern hemisphere, we can spring into spring. Here on the Digital Newspaper Team, we’ve been dusting off papers for upload. Thanks to partners like University of Texas at San Antonio, Southwestern University, the Old Jail Art Center, and newspaper publishers themselves, new titles you’ll see preserved… Read more »
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