{"id":1543,"date":"2011-01-14T15:26:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T15:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2024-11-22T10:13:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T15:13:14","slug":"athens-historic-newspapers-archive-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=1543","title":{"rendered":"Athens Historic Newspapers Archive Now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Athenssitefinal1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1558 size-medium\" title=\"Athens Historic Newspapers Archive\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Athenssitefinal1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"screenshot of The Athens Historic Newspapers Archive web page\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Athenssitefinal1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Athenssitefinal1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the availability of a new online resource: The Athens Historic Newspapers Archive<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/athnewspapers\">http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/athnewspapers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Athens Historic Newspapers Archive provides online access to five newspaper titles published in Athens from 1827 to 1922. Consisting of over 57,000 newspaper pages, the archive provides historical images that are both full-text searchable and can be browsed by date. The site will provide users with a view into the history of Athens in its early years as the home to the first state-chartered university in the nation and its eventual growth into the largest city in northeast Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>The archive includes the following Athens newspaper titles: <em>Athenian<\/em> (1827-1832), <em>Southern Banner<\/em> (1832-1882), <em>Southern Watchman<\/em> (1855-1882), <em>Daily\/Weekly Banner-Watchman<\/em> (1882-1889), <em>Daily\/Weekly Athens Banner<\/em> (1889-1922).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/athensscene.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1554 size-medium\" title=\"Athens Landmarks\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/athensscene-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"image collage of Washington St. School, a water tower, a double barrel cannon, Baxter St. School and Athens Water Works.\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/athensscene-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/athensscene-1024x729.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/athensscene.jpg 1992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Athens Historic Newspapers Archive is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia as part of the Georgia HomePLACE initiative. The project is supported with federal LSTA funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. Digitization is also made possible through a grant provided by the Francis Wood Wilson Foundation, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Other newspaper archives available through the Digital Library of Georgia include the Atlanta Historic Newspapers Archive (1847-1922), the <em>Macon Telegraph<\/em> Archive (1826-1908), the <em>Columbus Enquirer<\/em> Archive (1828-1890), the Milledgeville Historic Newspapers Archive (1808-1920), the <em>Southern Israelite<\/em> Archive (1929-1986), and the <em>Red and Black<\/em> Archive (1893-2006) (by <a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #333;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dresshead.com\/dresshead-staff-profile-jodi-bryan\/\">jodi<\/a> at <a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #333;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dresshead.com\">dresshead.com<\/a>). These archives can be accessed at <a href=\"http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/MediaTypes\/Newspapers.html\">http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/MediaTypes\/Newspapers.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the availability of a new online resource: The Athens Historic Newspapers Archive http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/athnewspapers The Athens Historic Newspapers Archive provides online access to five newspaper titles published in Athens from 1827 to 1922. Consisting of over 57,000 newspaper pages, the archive provides historical images that are both &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=1543\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Athens Historic Newspapers Archive Now Available&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[46,52,286,16],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-athens-ga","tag-clarke-county-ga","tag-georgia-homeplace","tag-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9191,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions\/9191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}