Library of Congress Adds Stars and Stripes from WWI

The Library of Congress has announced the online collection of The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919. It's available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/.

This collection contains the complete run of the newspaper -- that's 71 weeks. There are three ways to go through the collection. You can search it by keyword, browse it by date, or choose from an issue list. The search option is extensive, allowing you to narrow your search by date as well as specify whether you want to search for word variables or not.

A search for "airplane" found 90 results, with a list display of issues. Click on the issue number and you'll get a page with a thumbnail of the page, with a "navigator" close-up of the story containing your keyword and a highlight of the keyword. You can click on various areas of the page to have the information appear in the navigator box.

Note that everything was scanned when creating this archive -- the comics, advertisements, everything. In addition to searching the archive, you can also download individual pages of newspapers, either as PDF files or TIFF files. You can even download entire issues as PDF files (though they're very large.) Great archive.

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