Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Washington, D.C.: U.S. vows 30M newspaper pages to go on Net

Published on 2004-11-18 by Mark VandeWettering

The National Endowment for the Humanities is teaming with the Library of Congress to make 30 million newpaper pages from 1836 to 1922 available for free download over the net.

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The span of the joint project is limited because type faces of printers used before 1836 are too difficult for optical scanners to read, and copyright restrictions are in force on papers published after 1923.