Chronicling
America
Historic American
Newspapers
The National Digital
Newspaper Program in
Hawaiʻi
November 2010
National Digital
Newspaper Program
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• Library of Congress
• State projects
• English language newspapers
• All states and D.C.
– now to include territories
• 1836 – 1922
NDNP - Annual Expansion
• More states (and
territories)
• More newspaper titles
• More content
Chronicling America
Quarterly Updates
June 2009 Dec 2009 June 2010 Sept 2010
States
Dates
Papers
Pages
11
15
20
23
1880-1922 1880-1922 1860-1922 1860-1922
140
212
291
348
1,249,747 1,729,826 2,303,512 2,692,369
HI Dates 1886-1905 1886-1913 1877-1913 1877-1913
HI Papers
2
3
12
12
HI Pages
12,603
23,072
60,662
98,254
Newspaper Title Selection Process
• Advisory board
• Content criteria
– Research value
– Geographic representation
– Temporal coverage
– Additional criteria
• Technical criteria
– Availability of microfilm
– Technical quality of microfilm
Chronicling America
Hawaiʻi titles currently available
• The Hawaiian Gazette (Honolulu, 1865-1916; online: 18771913)
• The Saturday Press (Honolulu, 1880-1885)
• Daily Bulletin (Honolulu, 1882-1894)
• The Daily Honolulu Press (Honolulu, 1885-1886)
• The Daily Herald (Honolulu, 1886-1887)
• Evening Bulletin (Honolulu, 1895-1897)
• The Independent (Honolulu, 1895-1905)
• Austin’s Hawaiian Weekly (Honolulu, 1899-1900)
• The Honolulu Republican (Honolulu, 1900-1902)
• The Honolulu Times (Honolulu, 1902-1911)
• The Democrat (Honolulu, 1910-1910)
Still To Come
• From 2008 - 2010 grant, awaiting upload
– Hawaiian Star
• For 2010 - 2011 grant
– Completion of Hawaiian Gazette
(currently online: 1877-1913)
(adding on: 1865-1876, 1914-1916)
– Hilo Tribune Herald
Still To Come
for 2010-2011 grant
• From Hawaiʻi (to be confirmed)
– The Garden Island (Kauaʻi)
– Honolulu Star-Bulletin (Honolulu)
– The Maui News (Maui)
– The Polynesian (Honolulu)
– Sandwich Island Gazette and Journal of Commere
(Honolulu)
– Pacific Commercial Advertiser (Honolulu)
Still To Come
for 2010-2011 grant
• From US-administered Pacific (to be
confirmed)
– The Cablenews-American, 1902-1920
(Manila, Philippines)
– O Le Faʻatonu, 1903-? (for NDNP, 1903-1922)
(Pago Pago, Am. Sāmoa)
– Guam News Letter, 1909-1922
(Agaña, Guam)
Still To Come
for 2010-2011 grant
• From US-administered Pacific – OTHER TITLES?
– Selection criteria up to now:
• Karen Peacock said so
– Selection criteria now:
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from a US-administered area, during US administration
between 1836-1922
in the English language (primarily English)
representing geographic and temporal diversity
representing cultural and political diversity
offering research value
article that
includes one of
our search
terms but not
both of them,
and not as a
phrase
article with our
search terms,
AMERICAN
SAMOA, as a
phrase
Chronicling America
Search Strategies
Search Terms
Search Option
SAMOA
Pages
Retrieved
29,273
SAMOA NAVAL STATION all of the words
SAMOA NAVAL STATION within 10 words of each other
AMERICAN SAMOA
all of the words
AMERICAN SAMOA
as a phrase
6,176
186
24,418
119
Chronicling America
• Additional content
– Topics in Chronicling America
• Annexation of Hawaii
• From Territory to Statehood
– Historical essays for selected newspapers
– General information for all newspapers
– Exportable images
Project Staff:
Joan Hori, project director
Martha Chantiny, project coordinator
Dore Minatodani
Beth Tillinghast
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov