{"id":5120,"date":"2016-07-21T10:33:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T14:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=5120"},"modified":"2024-11-20T14:21:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T19:21:18","slug":"enhanced-macon-telegraph-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=5120","title":{"rendered":"Enhanced Macon Telegraph Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the re-release of the enhanced <em>Macon Telegraph<\/em> Historic Newspapers Archive:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5121\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5121\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/telegraph\/id:mwt1826-0001\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5121 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mwt1826-0001-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"First Issue of the Macon Telegraph, November 1, 1826\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mwt1826-0001-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mwt1826-0001-704x1024.jpg 704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First Issue of the Macon Telegraph, November 1, 1826<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/telegraph\">http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Macon Telegraph<\/em> Historic Newspapers Archive is now compatible with all current browsers and provides access to early issues of the <em>Macon Telegraph<\/em> ranging from its inception as a weekly newspaper in 1826, through the daily issues of the early twentieth century without the use of plug-ins or additional software downloads. Consisting of over 51,000 newspaper pages, the website provides historical images that are both full-text searchable and can be browsed by date.<\/p>\n<p>The archive includes the following titles: <em>Daily Telegraph and Messenger<\/em> (1873), <em>Georgia Telegraph<\/em> (1832-1835, 1844-1858), <em>Georgia Weekly Telegraph and Georgia Journal &amp; Messenger<\/em> (1869-1880), <em>Georgia Weekly Telegraph, Georgia Journal &amp; Messenger<\/em> (1880-1882), <em>Macon Daily Telegraph<\/em> (1860-1863, 1865-1869, 1908), <em>Macon Georgia Telegraph<\/em> (1836-1844), <em>Macon Telegraph<\/em> (1826-1832, 1894-1905), <em>Macon Telegraph and Messenger<\/em> (1873-1882), <em>Macon Tri-Weekly Telegraph<\/em> (1862-1863), <em>Telegraph and Messenger<\/em> (1871-1873), <em>Twice-A-Week Telegraph<\/em> (1907), <em>Weekly Georgia Telegraph<\/em> (1858-1869), <em>Weekly Telegraph<\/em> (1885-1895), <em>Weekly Telegraph and Messenger<\/em> (1884-1885).<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Macon Telegraph<\/em> Historic Newspapers Archive is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia, a part of Georgia\u2019s Virtual Library GALILEO and is based at the University of Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Other newspaper archives available through the Digital Library of Georgia include the Atlanta Historic Newspapers Archive (1847-1922), the Savannah Historic Newspapers Archive (1809-1880), the South Georgia Archive (1845-1923), the Athens Historic Newspapers Archive (1827-1928), the West Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive (1843-1942), the North Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive (1850-1922), the <em>Columbus Enquirer<\/em> Archive (1828-1890), the Milledgeville Historic Newspapers Archive (1808-1920), the <em>Southern\u00a0 Israelite<\/em> Archive (1929-1986), the <em>Red and Black<\/em> Archive (1893-2006), and the <em>Mercer Cluster <\/em>Archive (1920-1970). 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the re-release of the enhanced Macon Telegraph Historic Newspapers Archive: http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/telegraph The Macon Telegraph Historic Newspapers Archive is now compatible with all current browsers and provides access to early issues of the Macon Telegraph ranging from its inception as a weekly newspaper in 1826, through the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=5120\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Enhanced Macon Telegraph Archive&#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":[8,18],"tags":[21,20,16],"class_list":["post-5120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-dlg-collections","tag-bibb-county-ga","tag-macon-ga","tag-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5120","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=5120"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9054,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5120\/revisions\/9054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}