Georgia Historic Newspapers Update Summer 2018

Over the summer, the Digital Library of Georgia released several new grant-funded newspaper titles to the Georgia Historic Newspapers website. Included below is a list of the new titles along with titles added from previous newspaper websites.

Titles funded by the R. J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation

Albany Courier (Albany), 1847

American Standard (Albany), 1855

Athens Gazette, 1814-1820

Corner Stone (Columbus), 1853-1861

Carrollton Advocate, 1860-1861

Cartersville Express, 1860

Cassville Standard, 1855-1857

Columbus Daily Times, 1858-1861

Columbus Sentinel, 1837

Columbus Times, 1841-1849

Columbus Weekly Times, 1859-1862

Daily Chronicle & Sentinel (Augusta), 1860

Daily Constitutionalist (Augusta), 1860

Daily Locomotive (Atlanta), 1860

Daily True Democrat (Augusta), 1860

Democratic Platform (Calhoun), 1859

Foreign Correspondent & Georgia Express (Athens), 1809-1810

Georgia Courier (Albany), 1853-1855

Georgia Express (Athens), 1808-1809

Georgia Express (Athens), 1812-1813

Georgia Platform (Calhoun), 1858

National American (Atlanta), 1860

North-east Georgian (Clarkesville), 1857

Richards’ Weekly Gazette (Athens), 1849-1850

Southern Literary Gazette (Athens), 1848-1849

Southern Literary Gazette (Charleston), 1850-1852

South-Western News (Americus), 1856

Weekly Chronicle & Sentinel (Augusta), 1857-1861

Weekly True Democrat (Augusta), 1860

Western Herald, 1833-1834

 

Titles funded by a Digitizing Hidden Collections grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR):

Clark Atlanta University Panther, 1991-1996; 2017

The Panther, 1965-1980

Spelman Campus Mirror (Atlanta), 1925-1950

 

Titles funded by a National Digital Newspaper Program Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities:

Savannah Morning News, 1881-1887

 

The DLG has also added several previously digitized newspaper titles to the GHN website, including:

Daily Georgian (Savannah), 1835-1847

Daily Morning News (Savannah), 1850-1864

Daily News and Herald (Savannah), 1866-1868

Daily Republican, 1839-1840

Daily Savannah Republican, 1829-1839

Georgian (Savannah), 1819-1823, 1829-1835

Georgian for the County (Savannah), 1822

The Republican; and Savannah Evening Ledger, 1809-1816

Savannah Daily Georgian, 1853-1856

Savannah Daily Georgian & Journal, 1856

Savannah Daily Herald, 1865-1866

Savannah Daily Morning News, 1868

Savannah Daily Republican, 1818-1824, 1840-1853, 1855-1858, 1866-1868

Savannah Georgian, 1825-1829, 1847-1849

Savannah Georgian (tri-weekly), 1822-1831

Savannah Georgian & Journal, 1856

Savannah Morning News, 1868-1880

Savannah Republican, 1816-1818, 1824-1829, 1853-1855, 1858-1865

Weekly Georgian (Savannah), 1839-1841

 

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South Georgia Newspapers Added to the Georgia Historic Newspapers Website

The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the addition of the previously digitized South Georgia newspaper titles to the Georgia Historic Newspapers (GHN) website.

https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/

Daily Times Enterprise (Thomasville), March 9, 1916

GHN now provides online access to forty seven South Georgia newspaper titles published in eleven cities (Albany, Americus, Bainbridge, Brunswick, Cairo, Cuthbert, Thomasville, Tifton, Valdosta, Vienna, and Waycross) between 1845 and 1922, including:

Advertiser (Brunswick), 1875

Advertiser and Appeal (Brunswick), 1888

Albany Daily Herald, 1906

Albany News, 1869-1880

Albany Patriot, 1845-1866

Albany Tri-Weekly News, 1867

Albany Weekly Herald, 1892-1901

Americus Daily Recorder, 1884-1890

Americus Recorder Tri-Weekly, 1881-1884

Americus Times-Recorder (daily), 1891-1900

Americus Times-Recorder (weekly), 1891-1902, 1907-1910, 1817-1821

Americus Weekly Recorder, 1883-1891

Americus Weekly Times-Recorder, 1902-1907

Bainbridge Democrat, 1881-1909

Bainbridge Search Light, 1903-1913

Bainbridge Weekly Democrat, 1872-1876

Brunswick Advertiser, 1875-1881

Brunswick Advertiser and Appeal, 1881

Brunswick Weekly Advertiser, 1889

Cuthbert Appeal, 1866-1884

Cuthbert Enterprise and Appeal, 1884-1888

Daily Advertiser-Appeal, 1888-1889

Daily Times-Enterprise (Thomasville), 1890-1922

Grady County Progress (Cairo), 1910-1917

Post-Search Light (Bainbridge), 1916-1922

Search Light (Bainbridge, 1901-1903

Thomasville Times, 1873-1889

Thomasville Times-Enterprise, 1893-1903

Tifton Gazette, 1892-1919

Times-Enterprise Semi-Weekly Edition (Thomasville), 1913-1922

Times-Recorder (Americus, daily), 1891

Times-Recorder (Americus, weekly), 1891

Tri-Weekly Sumter Republican (Americus), 1866-1867

Tri-Weekly Republican (Americus), 1870

Valdosta Times, 1905-1912

Waycross Evening Herald, 1911

Waycross Headlight, 1884-1887

Waycross Herald, 1892-1893

Waycross Journal, 1901-1914

Waycross Weekly Herald, 1893-1902, 1908-1910

Waycross Weekly Journal, 1914

Weekly Advertiser Appeal (Brunswick), 1888

Weekly Edition of the Waycross Evening Herald, 1904-1908

Weekly News and Advertiser (Albany), 1880-1892

Weekly Sumter Republican, 1870-1885

Weekly Times Enterprise and South Georgia Progress, 1905-1908

Weekly Times-Recorder, 1910-1917

The site offers full text searching and multiple browsing options. GHN is compatible with all current browsers, and the newspaper page images can be viewed without the use of plug-ins or additional software downloads.

This summer, the Digital Library of Georgia will be adding several previously digitized newspaper titles, including titles from the Savannah and Athens Historic Newspaper Archives. Upcoming new releases will include dozens of R.J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation-funded antebellum titles from around the state, the NDNP-funded Savannah Morning News, and several CLIR-funded student newspapers from Atlanta University Center and Spelman and Morehouse Colleges.

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