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From: "Deborah Jaquiss" <>
Subject: [VAFairfax] Old Washington Star & other US/Canadian Newspapers digitized
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:48:15 -0400
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Old Washington Star & other newspapers in the Americas digitized.

Thank you, Ken, for alerting us that this process is underway to allow
access
to newspaper files to provide a greater availability of these great
resources.

A search on Google.com shows the following:
http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/wnd020812.htm;

Cold North Wind to Digitize The Washington Star Archives
Cold North Wind, Inc. and Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive (WPNI) have
agreed to publish full-page, searchable images of The Washington Star's
archives on the Internet. The Washington Star was a major newspaper in
Washington, D.C., for many years but discontinued publication in 1981. Its
archive rights were obtained by The Washington Post Co. Terms of the
agreement were not released.
The Washington Star's 1.5-million newspaper page archive spans a large
portion of newspaper history in the nation's capital and chronicles about
130 years of U.S. history. The coverage dates to 1852 and includes events
from the Civil War, Reconstruction, the two World Wars, the Depression, and
the struggle for civil rights.

Founded in 1999, Cold North Wind is currently creating an online newspaper
archive. The company uses proprietary technology to turn newspaper archives
on microfilm into high-resolution, searchable, digital images on the
Internet. Cold North Wind provides revenue-producing solutions to
organizations that hold valuable microfilm archives, as well as to
distributors of online content.

Cold North Wind recently launched Paper of Record
(http://www.paperofrecord.com), a fee-based portal that provides access to a
growing archive of historical newspapers, most of which are Canadian. WPNI
will have the option of using The Washington Star stories elsewhere,
including on washingtonpost.com.

Source: Cold North Wind, Inc.

[Editor's Note: WPNI's The Washington Post will be digitized through
ProQuest Information and Learning's Historical Newspapers initiative.
ProQuest targets the first quarter of 2003 for the project's completion.]
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These websites have more information

http://www.coldnorthwind.com/news/press.html;
http://colegroup.com/TCP/0104SA.html;
http://www.coldnorthwind.com/
http://www.paperofrecord.com/ This one shows which newspapers are available.

Hope this is of some help/assistance to someone.

TIA ~ Deborah in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC, USA


snip>>>>>Dear Listers,
The following article may be useful to those researchers with
ancestors who went to the USA. It recently appeared in a local
newspaper regarding the digitizing of American and Mexican newspapers.
The article reads "The Washington Star has joined more than 700
newspapers being digitized by Ottawa's Cold North Wind. The process
allows old editions of newspapers, many of them dating back more than a
century, to be viewed on the Internet. The contract caps a huge summer
for Cold North, highlighted by a $10 million US deal to digitize Mexican
newspapers." There is no indication as to which newspapers are done or
being done nor how to access them on the net. Good hunting, Ken
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