Thank You! [email protected] wrote: > Subject: > > ILPEORIA-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 73 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [ILPEORIA-L] Old Newspapers ["Cheryl Rothwell" <[email protected]] > #2 [ILPEORIA-L] Research at State His ["Cheryl Rothwell" <[email protected]] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from ILPEORIA-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: [ILPEORIA-L] Old Newspapers > Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 10:47:56 -0400 > From: "Cheryl Rothwell" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > http://www.neh.gov/preservation/usnp.html > > UNITED STATES NEWSPAPER PROGRAM > The United States Newspaper Program is a cooperative national effort among > the states and the federal government to locate, catalog, and preserve on > microfilm newspapers published in the United States from the eighteenth > century to the present. Funding is provided by the National Endowment for > the Humanities. Technical assistance is furnished by the Library of > Congress. Last updated: January 2000. > > ILLINOIS > > Status: Current > Accomplishments: 8,700 titles cataloged by the Chicago Historical Society > and the Illinois State Historical Library; 5,500 titles cataloged in > Chicago-area repositories; concurrently, 5,200 titles cataloged at the > University of Illinois and other repositories > NEH support: $2,477,043 > > Cheryl Pence > Illinois State Historical Library > Newspaper Library > Old State Capitol > Springfield, IL 62701 > telephone: 217-785-7941 > website: http://www.state.il.us/hpa/lib/#NEWSPAPERS > > Linda Evans, Chief Cataloger > Chicago Historical Society > 1601 North Clark Street > Chicago, IL 60614 > telephone: 312-642-5035 ext 311 > e-mail: [email protected] > website: http://www.chicagohistory.org/newspaper.html > > Sharon E. Clark, Newspaper Librarian > 1 Main Library MC-522 > 1408 W. Gregory Drive > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign > Urbana, IL 61801 > telephone: 217-233-2579 > e-mail: [email protected] > website: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/techserv/inp/main.htm > > You can go to the last one and search by town and county. I haven't tried > the others. > > Cheryl Rothwell > [email protected] > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: [ILPEORIA-L] Research at State Historical Society > Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 10:56:32 -0400 > From: "Cheryl Rothwell" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > http://www.state.il.us/hpa/lib/default.htm > > Here's a link you'll want to bookmark if you haven't already. Be sure to > check out their information on newspapers, obituary searches, genealogical > research and so on. This is a good time for non-residents to make use of > Illinois relatives since Illinois residents get this service a LOT cheaper > than non-residents. > > Cheryl Rothwell > [email protected]