Exploring Missouri’s

Historic New

spapersM

att ButlerDigitization Consultant, M

issouri State Library

Patsy LuebbertGrant M

anager, State Historical Society of Missouri

1,500,000 Pages!The State Historical Society has digitized over one m

illion new

spaper pages. 227 Titles79 Counties and City of St. Louis21 Partners

Partners•B

arry-Lawrence R

egional Library •C

ameron P

ublic Library •C

arter County Library

•Caruthersville P

ublic Library •C

urtis Laws W

ilson Library –•M

issouri University of S

cience & Technology

•Gentry C

ounty Librry •H

enry County Library

•Hickory C

ounty Library •Lincoln U

niversity •M

acon Public Library

•Marion C

ounty Library District –

Palm

yra

Partners•M

ercantile Library –U

niversity of Missouri-S

t. Louis •M

issouri History M

useum

•Missouri S

tate Library •P

almyra Library D

istrict •S

cenic Regional Library

•Shelbina C

arnegie Public Library

•St. C

harles City-C

ounty Library •S

t. Joseph Public Library

•St. Louis P

ublic Library •W

illiam Jew

ell College C

urry Library -•W

illiam E

. Partee Center

Counties with Digitized Titles

The State Historical Society of M

issouri W

ebsite

•https://shsm

o.org/newspaper/m

dnp/

Finding Missouri N

ewspapers on M

DNP

https://shsmo.org/new

spaper/

Searching on MDN

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http://digital.shsmo.org/cdm

/helpdocs

•After selecting “Advanced Search,” this m

enu will show

.

•Refine your search by using the drop-dow

n menus show

n above.

•Add different collections you w

ant to search including other newspapers or other collections that the State

Historical Society has including the “American Civil W

ar in Missouri” and “W

orld War I.”

Searching by year or years

Library of Congress-Chronicling America

•http://chroniclingam

erica.loc.gov/

Finding Missouri N

ewspapers on Chronicling Am

erica

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

•Select the “U

S New

spaper Directory, 1690-Present button.•

You can either browse for the title you w

ant or you can use the drop-down m

enus to select the state, county, and city of the paper and enter the approxim

ate title in the “Enter keywords” box

Searching in Chronicling America

•Pick the state w

here the paper you want is located from

the drop-down m

enu.

•Select a date range from

the year drop-down m

enus if you have one.

•Enter your keyw

ords. •

Hint: Your searches will yield better results if you keep the follow

ing points in mind:

•Com

mon w

ords such asand,not, andthe

are ignored by the search engine.•

Case of letters is ignored. For example,Civiland

civilare treated the same.

•Diacritic characters (accent m

arks, in non-English text) and other special characters produce inaccurate results, so plain (unaccented) letters should be substituted for letters w

ith diacritics.•

Chronicling America's search engine utilizes language-specific dictionaries to include w

ord variants for your search term

s. This is often called stemm

ing. For example, the search term

house, when

stemm

ed in English, would also return w

ords like housesand

housing.

Basic Searching

Advanced Searching

Other potential resources

•New

spapers.com

•Local libraries/historical societies –physical/m

icrofilm

•Others?

Questions?

Contact info

Matt Butler

Digitization ConsultantM

issouri State Library573-522-1477

matthew

.butler@sos.m

o.gov

Patsy LuebbertGrant M

anagerState Historical Society of M

issouri573-882-3671

LuebbertP@shsm

o.org