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Happy #MicrofilmMonday! These rolls all contain photographs of pages of newspapers that we digitize to produce the images on Chronicling America. Each roll typically contains about 3 months' worth of pages. The following pictures are of boxes of service copies of microfilm available to view in the Reading Room at the Alaska State Library here in Juneau. ... 📷: Boxes of the Cordova Daily Times on microfilm from 1915-1924. ... 📷: Boxes of the Valdez Daily Prospector and Valdez Daily Miner on microfilm ranging in date from 1911-1921. ... 📷: Boxes of the Nome Nugget on microfilm from 1913-1918. ... 📷: Boxes of the Alaska Daily Empire on microfilm from 1914-1919. ... #Microfilm #HistoricalCollections #AlaskaStateLibrary #HistoricNewspapers #Digitization #AnalogMedia #ChroniclingAmerica #NDNP #AlaskaHistory #CordovaDailyTimes #NomeNugget #AlaskaDailyEmpire #ValdezDailyProspector #ValdezDailyMiner #JuneauAlaska #ValdezAlaska #CordovaAlaska #NomeAlaska

Exciting announcement: The National Endowment for the Humanities, which funds the National Digital Newspaper Program, recently approved funding for another 2-year cycle! This means that historic Alaska newspapers will continue to be added to Chronicling America, the online newspaper platform provided by the Library of Congress. Keep your eyes peeled for more Alaska newspaper titles on Chronicling America! ... 📷: Taken from advertisement in the July 7, 1902 issue of the Alaska Prospector, published in Valdez, Alaska. ... #NDNP #HistoricNewspapers #ChroniclingAmerica #Digitization #Update #NationalEndowmentForTheHumanities #LibraryOfCongress #AlaskaNewspapers

To celebrate National Fishing Month this August, now is a great time to acknowledge the time-honored tradition of salmon fishing in Alaska. The sheer variety of the fish (Chum/Dog, Sockeye, King/Chinook, Coho/Silver, Pink/Humpy) points to the nutrient-rich waters that allow them to thrive. All throughout Alaska, salmon are now returning to the freshwater creeks from whence they hatched to spawn. Swipe for a collection of historical news items about salmon fishing in Alaska. ... 📷: Illustration of a fisherman spearing a salmon while another looks on from an advertisement for Goodrich “Hi-Press” Rubber Footwear from the September 22, 1919 issue of the Cordova Daily Times. Text reads: “National Fishing Month” ... 📷: Editorial from the April 28, 1918 issue of the Daily Alaskan reads: “The King salmon are caught by trolling, while the sockeye, coho, and humpback are caught mostly by nets. A number of years ago, a special agent of the British Government, who was accustomed to fishing with a line only, spoke of the abundance of the salmon on the west coast of America. He said that while there were great numbers of fish they could never be of use to man for the “bloody fish would neither take bait nor fly.” Fish traps catch the salmon going into bays and rivers on their way to the spawning grounds, before they reach the fresh water. Gill nets hang vertically on the water, so that the fish catch their gills in its meshes. They catch a very small part of the salmon taken in Southeastern Alaska, while the traps and seines take great numbers. The salmon are pickled, cured, salted, frozen and canned for the sale in different markets of the world, and help to furnish a part of the food supply of which we hear so much these days.” ... 📷: Red canning label for Rapid River brank Alaska Pink salmon, pictured with fish leaping to the upper right hand corner of the label. From the Alaska State Library Historical Collections, identifier ASL-MS108-6-07. ... #NationalFishingMonth #ChroniclingAmerica #NDNP #AlaskaSalmon #CordovaAlaska #SkagwayAlaska #AlaskaStateLibraryHistoricalCollections #Salmon #SalmonLabel #HistoricalNewspapers #Digitization #Microfilm #Fishing

For #MicrofilmMonday here’s a soothing “start” to the work week! This video clip shows what a reel of microfilm looks like when fed into a microfilm reader. This is known as a “target”. Targets like this helped determine what was the beginning and end of a reel, in case it was rewound backwards. Because Chronicling America features the content of the newspapers, and not the filming targets themselves, this clip sheds a bit of light on the experience of viewing newspaper issues on microfilm. ... #ChroniclingAmerica #Microfilm #MicrofilmReader #Digitization #NDNP #MicrofilmReel #Monday #HistoricalNewspapers #MicrofilmTarget #Start

Today marks Hot Dog Day, a culinary staple of Americana in the summer. To celebrate, here's a hot dog-related news item that comes from the Alaska Daily Empire and recounts in thrilling detail the robbery at a lunch wagon (a precursor to food trucks) that served hot dogs and coffee in the wee hours of the morning: 📷: May 3, 1913 article, bordered by squiggles of ketchup and mustard, reads: “Robbery at Early Hour Startles Denizens: There was a realistic touch pulled off in Juneau last night. “Butch” Moore’s lunch wagon was robbed at the corner of Front Street and Seward shortly after two o’clock this morning. This lunch wagon is a new innovation in the Capital City streets and was given its first tryout as a business venture last evening. Quite a number were congregated around the novel rig at an early hour eating “hot dogs” and coffee. Suddenly there was an explosion- the gasoline stove had blown up. “Butch” was greatly agitated and in order to soothe his excited nerves sought an emporium where soothing potions are dispensed. When he returned and attempted to make change for a patron the discovery was made that some person or persons, as yet unknown, had taken the cash register (an old china sugar bowl) with all of the cash assets, amounting to $65.00. Great excitement prevailed for a time but as yet no arrests have been made and local police circles are up in the air.” ... #HotDogDay #HistoricalNewspapers #JuneauAlaska #NDNP #ChroniclingAmerica #Robbery #HotDog #Food #Ketchup #Mustard #Digitization #Microfilm #AlaskaDailyEmpire

👀Here’s looking at you from historic Alaska newspapers! Just this small detail from these drawings point to the care and craft that went into hand-drawn newspaper advertisements and illustrations, truly a lost art. Clockwise from the top right are the following: … Rexall Cherry Juice Cough Syrup, Red Cross Drug Store, Alaska Citizen (Fairbanks), January 2, 1911. … Front page editorial cartoon, Alaska Citizen (Fairbanks), July 3, 1916. … Rex Beach’s “Going Some” film screened at Spickett’s Palace, Alaska Daily Empire, February 23, 1922. … S.J. Arneson, Jeweler, Alaska Daily Empire (Juneau), December 2, 1919. … Illustration from society page of the Daily Morning Alaskan (Skagway), January 6, 1901. … James Kennedy suits, Daily Alaskan (Skagway), June 23, 1917. … Cordova Drug Co. from the Cordova Daily Times, May 7, 1919. … Rexall Cherry Juice Cough Syrup, Red Cross Drug Store, Alaska Citizen (Fairbanks), February 2, 1911. ... #EyeMeme #AlaskaHistoricNewspapers #Illustration #NDNP #ChroniclingAmerica #CordovaAlaska #FairbanksAlaska #JuneauAlaska #SkagwayAlaska #HistoricNewspapers #Microfilm #Digitization #👀 #👁👁

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