Indiana Historic Newspaper Digitization Project

FAIN: PJ-287517-22

Indiana State Library (Indianapolis, IN 46204-2207)
Robert William Clark (Project Director: January 2022 to present)

The digitization of 100,000 pages of Indiana newspapers published between 1896 and 1963 with an emphasis on newspapers from northern Indiana.

This project will continue the work completed with the 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2017 NEH-NDNP grant to digitize and make available approximately 100,000 pages of historic Indiana newspapers published between 1890 and 1963. Digitization will be from second generation silver negative print masters created for the project from first generation silver negative camera masters of Indiana newspaper titles. Products of this grant will include: uncompressed TIFF page images, derivative JPEG2000 images, derivative PDF files, OCR text files, and structured metadata. An historical essay will be created for every newspaper title along with updated CONSER-level MARC records. Digitization of these newspapers will allow important elements of Indiana's rich history to be more accessible to researchers.