University of MD LIbraries Receive Funding for Phase 2 of Newspaper Digitization Project

American Republican and Baltimore Daily Clipper, July 4, 1845.  Source:  The Library of Congress, Chronicling America
American Republican and Baltimore Daily Clipper, July 4, 1845. Source: The Library of Congress, Chronicling America

The University of Maryland Library system has received a $290,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to continue digitizing historic Maryland Newspapers.  The “Historic Maryland Newspapers Project” was first awarded a grant in 2013 to digitize 100,000 pages of newsprint between 1826 and 1922.  About 86,000 pages are now available on the Library of Congress database, Chronicling America.

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