Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project

FAIN: PJ-293221-23

Connecticut State Library (Hartford, CT 06106-1569)
Anna Newman (Project Director: January 2023 to present)

Digitization of 100,000 pages of Connecticut newspapers published prior to 1963, as part of the state’s continuing participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). This phase would focus on papers from the early nineteenth century, a Polish newspaper, and papers covering Hartford during the 1940s and ’50s.

The Connecticut State Library will digitize 100,000 pages of historic Connecticut newspapers, focusing on political, economic, and social change in Connecticut in the early 19th century, the Polish immigrant community in New Britain, and suburbanization in the greater Hartford region in the 1940s and 1950s. Project staff will follow the Library of Congress's Technical Guidelines for quality review and deliver digital files, metadata, updated MARC records, and duplicates to the Library of Congress for access in Chronicling America.