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ProQuest Historical Newspapers
ProQuest Information and Learning
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The new historical newspapers database from ProQuest contains full-text and full-image articles from newspapers dating back to 1850. Historical Newspapers currently covers The New York Times from 1851-1855 and 19751977, and The Wall Street Journal beginning in 1985 and working backwards into the 1880s. The goal is comprehensive coverage of both of these titles, as well as other major newspapers. The newspapers are searchable by both article citation and article text. This includes advertisements, obituaries, sports pages - essentially the entire issue. The displays are in PDF format with an underlay of ASCII text, which allows for full-text searching. The images are amazingly clear, and the printout quality makes microfilm printing seem...