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Minnesota Digital Newspaper Project

Introduction

The Minnesota Historical Society received a two-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to particiapte in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). This program is a partnership between the NEH and the Library of Congress to build a national digital resource of newspapers published between 1836 and 1922. The material will be full-text searchable and accessible through a database on the Library of Congress website.

The program will be implemeted in several phases. During the next two years (2007-2009), the Society will follow the principal criteria set by the NDNP to select 100,000 pages from microfilm published between 1880 and 1910. The selected material will be digitized and OCR text files will be created according to scanning specifications and added to the Library of Congress website.

Project Documents

Websites

Contact

For more information regarding the project, contact:

Bob Horton, Project Director
robert.horton@mnhs.org
651-259-3240

Irene van Bavel, Manager
irene.vanbavel@mnhs.org
651-259-3248