CHRONICLING AMERICA NEVADA'S PART

NEVADA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
CONFERENCE OCTOBER 14, 2018
Part of the National Initiative:
Chronicling America
Scholars & Researchers | K-12 | Casual Browsing | Genealogist | Lifelong Learners

Presenters: Carrie Gaxiola & Yvonne Wilk
University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries. Digital Collections, a Unit of Special Collections and Archives

PART I: ABOUT THE
PROJECT
 Clips on the side to show you
samples (not always relevant to
content of discussion on slide)
 Part II : Yvonne Wilk will show you
the action – finding materials in
Chronicling America and more…
1884-09-11
Morning Appeal
(Carson City)

Always FREE
NO sign-ups
NO questions
___________________
OPEN TO ALL

ABOUT THE PROJECT:
So, what is Chronicling America?
Main goal: Digitize the Nation’s historical
newspapers
You can search, save, download, print, and clip articles FREE!
https://nvdnp.wordpress.com/the-project/project-partners/

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GRANT AWARDEES & PROJECT ADVISORY
BOARD:
UNLV Libraries & the people who made it all happen!
Jason Vaughan
Co-Principal Investigator; Director, Library Technologies
Cory Lampert
Co-Principal Investigator; Head, Digital Collections
Peter Michel
Co-Principal Investigator; Special Collections Curator
• The statewide Project Advisory Board is comprised of eleven volunteers:
• historians, archivists, educators, librarians, …
• The board is responsible for selecting and ranking newspaper titles for digitization
• Bios available on our website: https://nvdnp.wordpress.com/the-project/project-advisory-board/
Lyon County Times, 1877

Title
Selection
Microfilm
Positives
and
Negatives
Metadata
Creation /
Collation
Scan, OCR,
XML files
Quality
Review
Library of
Congress
platform
review –
OCR
Deliver to LoC
Full text
searchable
papers online
(Above) Goldfield News 01/19/1906
(Right) Goldfield News 01/26/1907 

NATIONAL PROJECT
Not just Nevada…
• In Nevada, we have every County and our Capital represented
• Our papers range from 1863-1922 (perhaps 1923 soon!)
• Third grant cycle – 2018-2020
Each produces 100,000
of digitized newspaper
pages
States not participating yet:
• MA, NH, RI, AL, WY have not
yet applied for the grant,
we hope they do
Eureka Daily
Sentinel; Feb.
12, 1874

WHY
NEWSPAPERS?Twitter of today!
First draft of our history
• Entertainment
• Communication
• Lost items, who is in town, advertising, vital
stats, world and regional news, and more!
• What they wore, what they ate, & lived
• How they reacted to events and people
• The economy (mining!)
• Track trends over time
• Trends: FIRES!!! Taverns, taverns and more taverns!
Baths for $0.50, potions for illnesses
• Topics: Women's Rights and suffrage, WWI, Mexican-
American War, Conflicts with Native Americans and
other European settlers
• Fashion! Shoes, hats, etc… Children, women, and
men
• Children WORKED and went to school on the side
• Xenophobia
• Groups of Diversity: School taught in French
Eureka Daily Sentinel Dec 25 1873

Eureka
Sentinel, 03/28/1914
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Photo courtesy:
– University of Nevada, Reno Digital
Collections: www.library.unr.edu/DigiColl
– University of Nevada, Las Vegas Digital
Collections: www.digital.library.unlv.edu
Nevada
History

Yerington Times 
Just added:
The White Pine News!

CONTENTS
Lyon County Times
07/19/1874
Eureka Weekly
Sentinel,
02/06/1889
Eureka Sentinel, 03/20/1915
Eureka Sentinel 05/16/1908
a sample

context
Lyon Co Times 07/10/1878; US rest LCT 04/03/1880; race war Goldfield News 09/1910; state news LCT 01/26/1878; passed through Carson Daily Appeal 09/24/1875; librarian LCT
07/16/1879

Lyon County Times, 11/24/1917
 Eureka Sentinel 01/21/1922 http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/extras/
Scholars
Primary sources for many
historical events:
• Women’s suffrage
• Human rights
• Immigration
• Early mining
• Track trends
• WWI (all wars)
• Specific people of
interest (Twain)
• Language
• Mapping Texts
http://mappingtexts.org/
 Election results: Town of
Midas
November 8, 1916
Daily Independent Elko NV
10/15/1913
Carson City Daily Appeal, 10/20/1915

SCHOLARLY INTEREST CONT
 Lyon Co News
06/26/1878Eureka Sentinel, 10/04/1913
above. Eureka Sentinel, 1916/03/20

Genealogists
• Millions of personal announcements
• Vitals: Births & Deaths
• Marriages
• Accidents and Injuries
• List of registered voters
• School records (yes, they reported how many days the child
made it to school and their grades in math…)
• Patent applications
• And more… remember, newspapers were THE communication!
Tonopah Bonanza
5/26/1906
Gold Hill Daily News, 07/11/1878
Carson City Daily Appeal, 10/20/1915
Gold Hill Daily News, 01/02/1869
Creative Commons by GDJ
Carson Daily Appeal, 09/24/1875

Eureka Daily Sentinel May 13, 1873
https://dp.la/guides/the-family-research-guide-to-dpla
Genealogists

THE LIFELONG LEARNER
• Browsing or Use Recommended topics:
• This day in history
• Territory to Statehood
• Flappers
• Crime and trials
• Jack the Ripper
• Seward’s Folly
• Comics
• Prohibition & Law
• And much, much more
https://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/index.html
Goldfield News
and Weekly
Tribune,
07/15/1916 &
11/4/1916

K-12 TEACHING
RESOURCESThe history we receive is from the adult perspective. It is important to allow children and
teens/young adults to have a chance to use primary materials to see history through their eyes.
Curriculum plans available by grade, era, and topic on the Chronicling America Site!
Example:
Grades 3-8
Dust Bowl: Use of Karen Hesse’s Newbery Award-winning “Out of the Dust” as an introduction to
this event, identify with the personal experiences of youth in the 1930s, and then students correlate
the fictional text with actual visual, auditory, and manuscript accounts.
Objectives: Students will be able to:
1- examine primary source materials to gain knowledge of the Dust Bowl;
2- use historical fiction to understand the human aspect of the Dust Bowl experience;
3- relate primary source materials from American Memory collections to passages, characters, and
events from the novel;
4- develop research skills and strategies, such as keyword searches, for finding information.
Credit Jan King and Rena Nisbet

K-12 USE OF CHRONICLING
AMERICAhttp://www.loc.gov/ndnp/extras/
& http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/

K-12
What would they find?
Example: Grades 9-12
American Indian Reservation Controversies: Introduce students to events around the 1870s –
Use PBL (Problem Based Learning) in which the student is confronted or faced with a real
world problem which has no preconceived right or wrong answers.
Using various teaching/learning strategies, which include brainstorming, role playing, and
oral presentations, the students access primary sources and other background sources to
arrive at a recommendation, based on the information. The teacher, librarian, and other
support staff act as guides or advisors through most of the process.
Topic
American Indian History
Era
Rise of Industrial America, 1876-1900
Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
Credits: Brett Silva & Peter Milbury
Objectives: Students will be able to:
1-Use primary sources effectively to gain an understanding of the
history of government relations, policies, and experiences with American Indian
peoples.
2-Become effective users of historic newspapers via Chronicling America

1- Goldfield News and Weekly Tribune 05/06/1916; 2-Eureka Sentinel 05/27/1916’ 3- Eureka Sentinel 08/12/1877; Eureka Weekly Sentinel 04/20/1901;
Daily Independent 05/05/1896;
context
critical thinking

Eager to learn how to get articles?
Searching, clipping, saving, social media, and more!
Introducing, Yvonne Wilk!
Part II

FASCINATING EVENTS YOU
CAN READ ABOUT
Titanic Sinks at
Sea
World War I
Chicago in
Ashes
Assassination of President
Lincoln
Typhoid Mary

African American history, Human Rights
American Enterprise, Industrialization and
Development
Arts, Education, Culture, Sports
Science, Technology,
Disasters, Politics, War and many more…

American Enterprise, Industrialization and Development
Arts, Education,
Culture
Natural Wonders,
Disasters
Science, Technology and many
more

There are two options for performing searches
using the Chronicling America website
Basic search or
Advanced Search

Basic search options are limited to :
State
Time period and
Key words

 Common words such as and, not and the are ignored by the search engine
 Case of letters is ignored (For example Civil and civil are treated the same.)
 Diacritic characters (accent marks, in non-English text) and other special
characters produce inaccurate results, so plain unaccented letters should be used

 Advanced search options allow you to search by:
 State
 Particular newspaper or newspapers
 Entire date range, or a specific date
 Specific search term in the keyword boxes

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 To narrow or expand search parameters on a given person, or place.
 In the Keyword box “…with the words” enter your search terms then,
 Select a numeric value for how close the words should be to each other
(proximity).

 Language changes
 Be sure to use search terms used at the time the materials were created, even if
those terms are now obsolete. For example :
 Use filling station rather than gas, or service station
 Use icebox rather than refrigerator
 Use suffrage rather than voting rights
 Use moving pictures rather than movies

ICEBOX
MOVING
PICTURES
SUFFRAGE
FILLING STATION

 Chosen articles or pages can easily be saved as a PDF or JP2(4.1 MB)
 Or you can use the scissors icon to download the image or article and then crop,
enhance or adjust it to your specifications
 You can share an article on:

 Misspellings
 Badly-formed words
 Typos and errors do occur
 Microfilm quality not always in best condition
 OCR software is not 100% accurate and particularly if the original item has
extraneous markings or physical damage on the page.

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