Congratulations to the Connecticut State Library for winning a third grant for its Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project. This allows the Library to digitize another 100,000 pages from the microfilm it holds from old Connecticut newspapers. Those pages will be added to the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America newspaper database.
The latest selections, scheduled to be online by the fall of 2019, include some Hartford-based publications; they’re listed below according to category, with their years of publication. The complete list is here.
African American:
- Hartford-Springfield Chronicle, 1940
- Hartford Chronicle, 1946-1947
- Connecticut Chronicle (Hartford, Conn.), 1948
- New England Bulletin (Hartford, Conn.), 1949
Labor:
- The Examiner (Hartford, Conn.), 1881-1888
- The Weekly Examiner (Hartford, Conn.), 1890-1901
- Hartford Labor, 1894
- The Labor Standard (Hartford, Conn.), 1910-1922
- The Connecticut Craftsman (Hartford, Conn.), 1932