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Humanities and the Sunshine StateTeaching Florida’s Climates
Melissa JeromeProject Coordinator
Sarah Moxy MoczygembaOutreach & Promotion Coordinator
UF George A. Smathers Libraries
• Creation of a digital version of an analog source• For example: sound, image, object
• Why digitize?• Preservation
• Including avoiding obsolescence
• Broader access
• Teachable Content
• Newspapers an excellent candidate for digitization
Source: 2010 Smithsonian Digitization Plan https://www.si.edu/content/pdf/about/2010_SI_Digitization_Plan.pdf
What is Digitization?
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Microfilm reel
National Digital Newspaper Program
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“ a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. Supported by NEH, this rich digital resource will be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of Congress. An NEH award program will fund the contribution of content from, eventually, all U.S. states and territories”
www.loc.gov/ndnp
Content Locations
1880s-1950
1836-1915
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Content Includes
• International• World War I
• Spanish American War
• Travel Technologies
• Heads of State
• National• Governance and Elections
• Suffrage Movement
• Prohibition
• Sports News
• Presidents and their Families
• Ads for National Brands
• Nativism
From The Ocala Evening Star (Ocala, FL) November 4, 1908. Image retrieved from Chronicling America.
From The Daytona daily news (Daytona, FL) January 8, 1910. Image retrieved from Chronicling America.
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Content Includes
• Florida• State Politics and Elections
• Creation of University System
• Travel Reports
• Entertainment
• Agricultural Reports
• Railways and Steamboats
• Natural Disasters
From La Democracia (San Juan, PR) June 9, 1902. Image retrieved from Chronicling America.
• Puerto Rico• Spanish Governance • Sale of Land and Slaves• International News• Epidemics• Social/Cultural• Education• Politics• Autonomy
From The Ocala evening star (Ocala, FL) June 17, 1916. Image retrieved from Chronicling America.
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Access
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Chronicling America
ChronAm is a database of historic newspapers published in the United States and its territories
-date range expanded to now include 1690-1963
Currently houses over 13 million pages of newspapers contributed from 45 states and one territory
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Optical Character Recognition
• Chronicling America is fully searchable
• Not perfect technology• Extraneous marks on page
• Unusual Fonts
• Misreading text or combining words
• Be patient with searches and think outside of the box• Context
• Time period
From The Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, FL) August 16, 1908. Image retrieved from Chronicling America. 9
From the Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, FL.) May 3,1913. Image retrieved from Chronicling America.
Tips and Tricks
When searching think about…
• Vocabulary
• Historic spelling
• Change in terms
• Typos
• Search parameters
• Change scope to get more useful results
• Diversify name searches
• Affiliated organizations, businesses, and governing bodies
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From the Monroe City Democrat (Monroe City, MO) August 22, 1907. Image retrieved from Chronicling America.
From the Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, FL) November 11, 1919. Image retrieved from Chronicling America.
A Note on Historical Language
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About the Papers
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ChronAm functions
Search options:• General
• Advanced
• All newspapers
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Advanced Search
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Additional Functions
Zoom in/out by clicking these buttons. Can also use mouse scroll
Full screen view!Use these options to change page
Use these options to change issue
Save pdf
Zoom in and clip something of interest.
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Early 20th century Environmental Concerns
• Early American Environmental Movement • President Theodore Roosevelt• Pelican Island Florida/Lacey Act• Gifford Pinchot-United States Forest Service• John Muir
• Efforts to Manipulate the Environment• Governor Broward-Draining the Everglades • Construction of the Panama Canal• Henry Flagler and the Key West Railway
Expansion
From the Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, FL) May 19, 1922. Image retrieved from Chronicling America.
From the Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, FL) January 25, 1906. Image retrieved from Chronicling America.
From the Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, FL) January 26, 1908. Image retrieved from Chronicling America. 16
Royal Palm State Park
• Dedicated in 1916 • Result of efforts led by May Mann Jennings
• Supported by Florida Federation of Women’s Clubs• Utilized their Social Networks • Especially prior to the passage of the 19th
Amendment• Raised money to purchase land for
conservation purposes
• Wanted to prevent development at and around Paradise Key
• Eventually the “nucleus” of Florida’s first National Park• Everglades National Park
• Established 1934• Dedicated 1947
• Still two visitor centers in the area
Postcard, date unknown. Image retrieved from
America’s Swamp.
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Royal Palm State Park
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From the Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, FL) December 26, 1915. Image retrieved from Chronicling America
From the Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, FL) February 6, 1916. Image retrieved from Chronicling America
Everglades
From The Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, FL) April 9, 1911. Image retrieved from Chronicling America.
• Land viewed as “empty” or having the potential for development since mid-19th
century• Gov. W.S. Jennings supported drainage • “the was no real settlement in the Everglades
until after 1910” (Dovell 190)• The availability of drained land was heavily
advertised and resulted in the Florida Land boom of the 1920s
• Damaged the ecosystem of the Everglades
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Everglades
From The Sun (Jacksonville, FL) March 10, 1906. Image retrieved from Chronicling America.
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From The Pensacola journal (Pensacola, FL) March 18, 1917. Image retrieved from Chronicling America.
Okeechobee
From The Lakeland evening telegram (Lakeland, FL) October 28, 1918.Image retrieved from Chronicling America.
From The Daytona daily news (Daytona, FL) February 12, 1915. Image retrieved from Chronicling America.
From the Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, FL) February 27, 1906.
Image retrieved from Chronicling America. 21
Forestry & Turpentine
From the The Pensacola journal (Pensacola, FL) March 29, 1905. Image retrieved from Chronicling America. 22
From the Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, FL) January 31, 1911. Image retrieved from Chronicling America.
From the Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, FL) March 26, 1908. Image retrieved from Chronicling America.
Cypress
From The Ocala evening star (Ocala, FL) June 24, 1903. Image retrieved from Chronicling America.
From The Pensacola Journal (Pensacola, FL) March 4, 1908. Image retrieved from Chronicling America.
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Questioning Human use of Nature
From The Florida agriculturist( DeLand, FL) July 11, 1906. Image retrieved from Chronicling America.
From the The Punta Gorda herald (Punta Gorda, FL) November 6, 1913.
Image retrieved from Chronicling America. 24
Suggested Chronicling America Search Terms
Less Useful:• Everglade(s)Park• Climate Change • Global warming • Environmentalism
Useful:• Royal Palm Park
• Royal Palm State Park• Fund/funding• Land• Hammock (only before 1919)
• Conservation or Preservation• Forests
• Reforesting• Turpentine• National forests
• Everglades• Drainage• Broward
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Resources for Students• LOC nature & environment for students
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommateri
als/themes/nature/students.html
• Evolution of the Conservation
Movement
• Mapping of National Parks
• National Parks Service- Kids Page
https://www.nps.gov/kids/index.cfm
• Audubon Society
http://www.audubon.org/
o Conservation
o Water
o Climate
o Education
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• Florida Forest Service
https://www.floridastateforests.org/state-
forests
• NASA Climate Kids
https://climatekids.nasa.gov/menu/teach/
Keep in Touch! Links:
facebook.com/ufndnp
twitter.com/ufndnp
ufndnp.wordpress.com
pinterest.com/ufndnp
ufdc.ufl.edu/ufndnpguides.uflib.ufl.edu/ufndnp
Contact us!
Project Team:[email protected]
Melissa Jerome:[email protected]
Sarah “Moxy” Moczygemba:[email protected]
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