A Publication of Lake County Public Library Summer 2011

Using the Historic Newspaper Website

You can leaf through an issue page by page, search for topics, people, businesses and organizations. You can look at an individual article by itself or a part of the full page, or search through articles, graphics, letters to the editors and ads. In addition, you can choose which newspapers to search.

Colorado Springs Gazette June 10, 1878

Georgetown, Colorado Miner May 17, 1879

Fort Collins Courier June 12, 1878

Fort Collins Courier June 26, 1879

Saguache Chronicle May 25, 1878

Saguache Chronicle December 28, 1878

Colorado Chieftan, Pueblo March 27, 1879

Saguache Chronicle April 12, 1879

Colorado Weekly Chieftan, Pueblo February 20, 1879

Colorado Springs Gazette December 15, 1877

Boulder County Courier June 22, 1878

Boulder County Courier November 8, 1878

Colorado Weekly Chietan, Pueblo October 31, 1878

Colorado's Historic

Newspaper Collection Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection

(CHNC) is an exciting and constantly

growing database of Colorado's earliest

published newspapers. Eventually, all of

Colorado’s historic newspapers will be

available on the Web in a single database.

CHNC currently includes 136 newspapers

published in Colorado from 1859 to 1933.

Newspapers come from 71 cities and 41

counties throughout the state, which were

published in English, German, Spanish, or

Swedish. CHNC contains over 449,000

digitized pages from these newspapers.

CHNC now relies exclusively on financial

contributions to add new materials to the

collection. Local libraries, museums,

foundations and other organizations have

funded the digitization of over 2,000,000

pages.

When a community raises funds for

digitization of historic newspapers, turn-

around time is approximately 3-4 months.

www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org

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Photographic Slides Chronicling Leadville History

Newspapers “In reading books and magazines in almost any part of Colorado, you realize that newspapers are the only thing really in existence that tell actually what the people were doing at that time, how they lived, what problems they were having, what the prices of their goods they had to buy were in relation to their wages, what their entertainment was, and their births and deaths. The newspapers are the real source to find this history.”

-Leroy Wingenbach-

Newspaper Digitization “Our Newspaper Digitization Project was in the planning stages in 2004, after we discovered papers never microfilmed in the basement of the Herald Democrat office” said Director Nancy McCain. “In 2006, we invested $29,398.75 from several funding agencies to digitize and put some of these earliest newspapers online. We now have over 50,000 pages online and they are getting a huge amount of use.”

All of the original articles for this program were taken from: www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org

Evening Call, Central City June 12, 1878

Georgetown Courier December 12, 1878

Saguache Chronicle September 6, 1879

Colorado Springs Gazette August 31, 1878

Colorado Weekly Chieftan, Pueblo November 27, 1879

Colorado Miner, Georgetown February 8, 1879

Colorado Miner, Georgetown April 12, 1879

Denver Daily Tribune January 30, 1879

MORE TO GO There are still more than 125,000 pages of Leadville newspapers prior to our copyright cutoff date of 1923. It will cost about $180.000 to digitize all issues. Lake County Public Library began with the earliest dates and is working to maximize daily coverage to 1923.

Colorado Weekly Chieftan, Pueblo December 12, 1878