Two Stories: One Hundred Years Apart
- The following information
resources have been gathered and selected by the C.H.S. Librarian
especially for use with the Chico High West project: Two Stories: One Hundred Years Apart
Historic
Newspapers
Although they may not be the source you would normally turn to, newspapers can provide insights into the world our ancestors inhabited, including personal information not available through any other means. News articles in small publications give glimpses into the everyday life of our ancestors.
Search Historical Newspapers
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Historical Newspaper Collection
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Nineteenth Century in Print, Periodicals: Browse Titles
Choose a historical magazine, select the year and issue you want to read, and browse into it to see the contents.
Historic Colorado Newspapers
Several dozen historic Colorado newspapers are available here in their full text to browse or search.
Historic Missouri Newspaper Archive
Eleven historic newspapers from Missouri are available here for searching and reading.
Library Historical Newspaper Index
Eleven historic newspapers from Virginia are available here for searching and reading.
Historic Newspaper: Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online (1841-1902)
This is a newspaper from Brooklyn, NY. It is available for searching and reading online.
Other Historic Information Sources
American Memory Collection Finder Search
Over 100 separate collections of digital information from U.S. history and culture. Just go to this page and scroll down to see the many collections that are available. Each collection has a very large number of resources. This is a huge site, so take your time to look it over!
Browse Ad*Access: Historic American Advertisements
Browsing the Ad*Access database allows you to search within each of the five main categories, one at a time. Each category is further broken down by a number of subcategories and dates. For example, Railroads:1950 is a subcategory within the broad category of Transportation; the time period 1939-1947 is a subcategory of Television.
Photographs from the Chicago Daily News:1902-1933, Chicago Historical Society
This collection comprises over 55,000 images of urban life captured on glass plate negatives between 1902 and 1933 by photographers employed by the Chicago Daily News, then one of Chicago's leading newspapers. The photographs illustrate the enormous variety of topics and events covered in the newspaper.
California, First Person Narratives: General Collections
Offers the full texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history through eyewitness accounts. The collection covers the dramatic decades between the Gold Rush and the turn of the twentieth century.
American Indian Observed
Sketches and Documents From the Collections of the Archives of American Art. Found among the Archives' collections are many containing artists' depictions of the American Indian. While the work of artists like George Catlin, W. Langdon Kihn, and Dorothy Newkirk Stewart all look different, they, and the work of other artists represented in this display, are united in one respect: their subject matter came from life.
The North American Indian: A Photographic Collection by Edward Curtis
In over 2000 photogravure plates and narrative, Curtis portrayed the traditional customs and lifeways of eighty Indian tribes. The twenty volumes, each with an accompanying portfolio, are organized by tribes and culture areas encompassing the Great Plains, Great Basin, Plateau Region, Southwest, California, Pacific Northwest, and Alaska. Featured here are all of the published photogravure images including over 1500 illustrations bound in the text volumes, along with over 700 portfolio plates.
Created by the Chico H.S. Librarian on 9-20-04