Transcribing Women’s Suffrage in Colorado
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Colorado Historic Newspapers
The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) currently inclu
des over 350 newspaper titles published in Colorado from 1859 up to 1923 and beyond with publisher permission. Newspapers within the collection come from throughout the state, and include papers published in English, German, Spanish, Swedish and Japanese. CHNC provides access to over 1,700,000 and growing, digitized pages from these newspapers. Digitization of additional newspapers continues through a local fund-raising model with contributions made by local libraries, archives, museums, and other organizations. Newspapers are digitized from microfilm or from the original newspaper. For more information about the CHNC, see our help and forums page. To explore the database of over one million pages of historic newspapers, check out CHNC yourself.
Pedestrianism – A 19th Century Quirk for 21st Century Life?
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Help CHNC while Social Distancing and Win a Prize!
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How Gunnison Dealt with the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
The year was 1918 and the Spanish Flu pandemic was in full swing. The disease…
Lucky Us! Temporary Newspaper Digitization Discount is Back
As part of a promotional effort, one of the digitization partners working with the Colorado…
CHNC and the Online Historic Newspaper Landscape
With over 1.7 million digitized pages representing nearly 400 newspaper titles stretching back to Colorado’s…
Support is Here for Newspaper Digitization
CHNC New Content Support Program The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) is excited to announce…
Impeachment: The View from Colorado’s Historic Newspapers
Whether it concerns moments in Colorado’s local history or happenings in the national arena or…
Topics in History: Intersectionality in Colorado: Women’s Rights are Human Rights
As we continue to celebrate women’s history month here in Colorado and across the world,…
CHNC’s Text Correction Champions
The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) is an outstanding resource for researchers and genealogists to…
Black History is Colorado History
The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection is more than just an online catalog for Colorado’s Historic…
Topics in History: Five Points: The Heart and Soul of Denver
In recent decades, the city of Denver has undergone a drastic transformation both aesthetically and…
OCR Correction Makes Our Shared History More Accessible to All
We at the State Library are honored to be partnering with the cultural and civic…
CHNC Welcomes the Westminster Journal with help of SIPA & New Content Support Program!
The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection is proud to welcome Westminster’s first local news publication, The…
Topics in History: The Lake County War
The Lake County War, as it has become known, was not actually a war at…
New Year, New Newspaper Support Program
CHNC New Content Support Program The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) is excited to announce…
Topics in History: Leadville’s 1896 Crystal Carnival and Palace
The City of Leadville was founded in much the same way as many Colorado mining…
Temporary Discount on Newspaper Digitization Costs
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Colorado’s Cultural Newspaper History
The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection has once again grown by thousands of pages thanks to…
Topics in History: Colorado’s Homegrown History
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