Presentation delivered to Truckee Meadows Community College class on Genealogy

1. Nevada Digital
Newspaper
ProjectChronicling
America
Carrie Gaxiola
Yvonne Wilk
May 4, 2018

2. www.nvdnp.wordpress.com | www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
UNLV Libraries
Special Collections and
Archives
Part I
Presenter: Carrie Gaxiola

3. Special Collections & Archives
for everyone!
• Mission: Preserve and document the
history of Southern Nevada
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4. Digital Collections: 24/7 Access
• UNLV Digital Collections – part of UNLV Special Collections and Archives
• Mission: Provide increased access to unique, rare, and specialized
research collections through digitizing collections and posting on the web
• Example of *some* collections:
• African-American Experience in Las Vegas
• Showgirls
• Dino at the Sands
• Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage
• Howard Hughes
• AND MORE…
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5. https://www.library.unlv.edu/
Visit us!
Online or in person

7. Regional and National History Resources!
(Regional)
Mountain West Digital Library:
Mission to provide FREE access
to over 960,000 resources
from universities, colleges,
public libraries, museums, historical societies and more!
https://mwdl.org/
FREE to all!

8. Digital Public Library of America

9. Digital Public Library of America:
(National)
Discover 21,436,194 FREE images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States
https://dp.la/  scroll down and click this thumbnail
https://dp.la/guides/the-family-research-guide-to-dpla
From this site:
Use our Search Tips to get the most out of your DPLA
experience!
• What was discussed at my ancestor’s local political club meeting?
• What did downtown Memphis look like in the 1910s when my family lived there?
• What route did my fortune-seeking ancestor take to California during the Gold Rush?

10. What else?
Digital Public Library of America:
• Streaming Workshops
• And MUCH MORE…

11. Newspapers!
• Why Newspapers?
• The first draft of history!
• Shows the daily lives of people
• What they wore, bought, watched, felt…
• Historical events and their perspectives
• Track historical development of particular topics
• Keep in mind: CONTEXT
• Nevada Digital Newspaper Project | Chronicling
America
• Keep in mind- NATION WIDE newspapers
o FREE internet based
Source of ads: Morning appeal. (Carson City, Nev.) November 10, 1883
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12. Digitized titles available online
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The Carson Daily Appeal
1866-1870
The Daily State Register
1870-1872
The New Daily Appeal
1872-1873
Carson Daily Appeal
1873-1877
Morning Appeal
1877-1906
The Daily Appeal
1906-1907
Carson City Daily Appeal
1907-1922
The Ely Record
1872-1872
Pioche Daily Record
1872-1876
Pioche Tri-weekly Record
1876-1876
Pioche Weekly Record
1877-1900
Lincoln County Record
1900-1905
Pioche Weekly Record
1906-1908
Pioche Record
1909-1922
Tonopah Bonanza
1901-1909
Tonopah Daily Bonanza
1906-1922
The Elko Independent
1869-1872
Weekly Elko Independent
1872-1887
Daily Independent
1887-1915
Weekly Independent
1887-1914
Elko Independent
1915-1921
Gold Hill Daily News
1863-1873

13. Our website:
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14. www.nvdnp.wordpress.com | www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
Chronicling America
Part II
Presenter: Yvonne Wilk

15. HOME PAGE
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16. SEARCHING
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17. DIGITIZED NEWSPAPERS

18. MORE INFORMATION

19. CALENDAR VIEW

20. SEARCH BY ETHNICITY

21. SEARCH BY LANGUAGE

22. Show All Digitized Newspapers

23. Finding an article

24. Search Results

25. Source Citation

26. Advance Search

27. Refining our search

28. Saving an article

29. Saving an article part II

30. Crop and Adjust

31. US Newspaper Directory

32. Reno Evening Gazette

33. VIEW COMPLETE HOLDINGS
INFORMATION

34. SEARCH BY LANGUAGE

35. SEARCH BY ETHNICITY

36. SEARCH BY LABOR PRESS

37. Social Media
• Every Month on the 3rd Tuesday of every month we
invite you to join us for a special Facebook and
Twitter celebration when we showcase a selected
subject matter, whether it be a holiday or special
remembrance - for example this month we
celebrated True Crime Tuesday. This monthly
forecast is organized by Chronicling America all
participating states find and post articles from
newspapers published in their states. They are
funny, interesting, strange, unusual or simply
fascinating.
• And now just few examples of our posts

38. Social Media

39. Social Media

45. Facebook: www.facebook.com/nvdnp
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nvdnp

46. Good Day
• We hope that this resource will be useful to you
when exploring early Nevada.
• The Nevada Digital Newspaper Project is an effort
to make Newspapers from early Nevada’s History
freely available.
• We thank you for your time and wish you a
wonderful day.