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Newspaper Archives |
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GenealogyBank.Com: A subscription service.
First choice for searching U.S. newspapers from 1800 to 1950. Good
search capabilities and although missing a few major papers, much of
the news was published elsewhere. (RCF)
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The London Times : A
subscription service. 1785 - 1985 newspapers. (RCF) |
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New York Times : A
subscription service that is free if you subscribe to the paper. Link
is an advanced search for "Post Office" in 1863 but change search
terms, date for desired results. At present newspaper are avaialble
back to 1851. (RCF) |
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Newspaper Archive : A pay site. Its search engine
is a bit more cumbersome than genealogybank. You can “view” their
paper holdings for free. They do have runs of certain papers that
genealogybank does not have and you can search items by paper. (Vince
King) |
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Accessible Archives : A subscription
site. Useful especially for per 1800 papers (SC, PA and VA) and Civil
War era papers. (John Olenkiewicz). |
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California Digital Newspaper Collection
: Useful but search results often incomplete due to poor quality of
images that were OCR'd. (RCF) |
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British Library
Site of British Newspapers : 1800-1900, Good site (RCF) |
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Niles Weekly
Register : A Google Books Search Result Link. These issues include
great info on period 1811-1849. Or for an expensive subscription, site
try here. (RCF) |
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The
Charleston Mercury : An example of what can be found via
Google News (RCF) |
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Paper Of Record
: Database purchase by Google but some papers possibly still not
included there. (David D'Alessandris) |
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Historical Papers Online : A list of links to newspapers
available. This table provides a list of historical U.S. newspapers
that are available online at no cost. Newspapers available for free
through Google News Historical Archives and Newspaperarchives.com are
listed individually as I identify them. Newspapers available through
Chronicling America and state digitization projects are usually listed
as a group. (Leonard Piszkiewicz) |
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Wikipedia List of Online Newspapers : Most free access sites are
included. (Martin Hosselmann) |
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Trove - Australian Newspapers : Hit and miss (Fred Gregory) |
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Proquest Newspapers : You need a library card from a library that
has it available to get access. Lots of libraries have the ProQuest
NYTimes available online. Where I live, in California, one can get
access fairly easily. (Leonard Piszkiewicz) |
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Antebellum Southern Newspapers : There is a search engine at top.
Enter “mail” and you can see. The papers are listed below. They have
transcribed articles generally of local interest. However, only 1%
content is transcribed (Vince King) |
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Map Archives |
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David
Rumsey Map Collection : The best map site by far. Maps can
be downloaded at high resolution. (RCF) |
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N2Genealogy Maps - An aggregator site with links to standard
atlases (Mike Ludeman) |
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Census Archives (non commercial) |
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PhilaMercury cover census : A good
database which is now suitable for foreign covers as well as United
States. Please contribute! Refine browses by variable criteria and set
order functionality, etc (RCF) |
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Philapedia
: A start for world cover census site, limited sort and
search abilities (RCF) |
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Post Office, Postal Acts and Rate Information |
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Simple Domestic US Postal rates 1816-1869 : The bare minimum
(Steve Walske) |
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US Postal Acts and Rates : From
Frajola site. Searchable PDF files from source documents and rate
summaries. Early post road maps. (RCF) |
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United
States Postal Treaties : (David Savadge) |
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Postmaster finder : (David
Savadge) |
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Best Google Searches |
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Google Books : Link is an advanced
search for "Post Office" but change search term for desired results.
Filters are set for preview available, date order, and 19th century.
Set filters as desired. Many useful public records and books are
available. (RCF) |
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Image Search : Link is search for
James Smillie with filter set for large size images only which helps
reduce the number of hits. Typically there are way too many results (RCF) |
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Patent Search : (from Mike Ellingson)
For my machine and patent cancel works, an example would be (one
of Leavitt's patents). You can also find novelties such as
this. Freeform searches on 'letter stamping machine', 'canceling
machine', 'handstamp', 'stamp perforating', 'envelope maker', etc
yield hours of fun."A
North Dakota Patent cancel" article by Mike E based on
search info. |
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Whaling Ships : (Ron Cipolla) |
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Image Searches |
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New York Public Library Digital Images
: Link is search for James Smillie images as an example. (RCF) |
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University of Wyoming digital collections
: great photos of early forts, (Ken Stach) |
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University of Wisconsin repository of
river steamboat photographs : A great site! (Ken Stach) |
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History Research |
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Rocky Mountain Online
Archive : A central search engine for the archives of a couple
dozen western institutions. You have to manipulate many different
style search engines to retrieve documents. (Leven Parker) |
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Steamboats (River Boat Daves) :
Detailed history of various river steamboats, with listing by boat
name, company name, captains (Ken Stach) |
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Official Records of the War of Rebellion : (Steve Walske) |
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Official Records of the Civil War Navies : (Steve Walske) |
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US Statutes at Large : (Steve
Walske) |
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CSA Railroads
and
Ships : (Steve Walske) |
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The Ships List
: Ship descriptions & some arrival dates (David Savadge) |
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Famous Americans
: part of ancestry.com (Gordon Eubanks) |
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California Online
Archive : (RCF) |
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City
Directories : A list of directories (David D'Alessandris) |
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Philadelphia Directory : (David D'Alessandris) |
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Archive : The
collection is international and includes historical text and images. A
good Google book directory,
Butterfield contract link, for example. (Richard Coffey) |
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Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS) : Not complete
yet for all listed in print volumes. Good CSA. See also
Hazegray : (Steve Pacetti) |
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Gale Digital Collections
: (Martin Hosselmann) |
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Adam Matthew Collection
: Period documents strong in 1700 to 1900 era (Martin Hosselmann) |
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US / Canada Government Source Documents |
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A Century of Lawmaking : U.S.
government documents. Somewhat hard to use but has text and image
files of documents. (RCF) |
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US Statutes
: (Gordon Eubanks) |
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Library and Archives Canada - Post Offices and Postmasters : Lists
all the Post Offices in Canada from at least 1867 to 1981 with
opening/closing dates and name changes (Jane Sodero) |
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G.P.U.
Treaty of 1874 : I suppose some fishing around would produce other
relevant treaties (Fred Gregory) |
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Hawaii Treaties : Has various Hawaiian treaties, ignore politics.
Also,
Hawaii Civil Code has some treaties (Fred Gregory) |
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Other |
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Perpetual calendar : Easiest I have
found. Year at a glance. (RCF) |
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Word Orgins
: Probably useless but interesting (Gordon Eubanks) |
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Post
Office in Paradise : Hawaii stamps and postal history (Fred
Gregory) |
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Connecticut
Postal History (Gordon Eubanks) |
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New York Postal
History : Empire States Society (Gordon Eubanks) |
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David
D'allesandris site : Lanman Kemp Correspondence, etc (Gordon
Eubanks) |
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National Postal Museum
: (Gordon Eubanks) |
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EXPONET : An exhibit archive site with hundreds of exhibits. Link
is direct to postal history section. (Mike Ludeman) |
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Stage Coach Lines of the American West :
(Steve Pacetti) |
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Making
of America - Cornell University : (Steve Pacetti) |
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Non Profit Philatelic Organization Sites With
Resources |
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USPCS Chronicle Search :
Classics Society journal search past articles available to members (RCF) |
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Philatelic
Foundation Search Certificate : Has ability to search old
certificates (RCF) |
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Western Cover Society Library :
Articles available. Membership required for full access to complete
archive of articles (RCF) |
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Postal
Museum State Postal History Register : (Steve Pacetti) For one of
the better links from the site, see
North Carolina Postal History Society Postmark Catalog
: (Stefan Jaronski) |
