This was started in Bloomfield Mo. Nov 9, 1861 and the museum has an original copy. http://wwwstarsandstripemuseumlibrary.org/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sherri Hall" <ldrbelties@earthlink.net> To: <KENTUCKY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 5:29 PM Subject: [KY] FW: National Digital Library: The Stars and Stripes: The American > Forwarded FYI - > > The Library of Congress' Serial & Government Publications Division is > pleased to announce the release of a new addition to the National Digital > Library - the online collection The Stars and Stripes: The American > Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919, available on the American > Memory website at: > http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/. > > At the direction of General John J. Pershing, The Stars and Stripes > newspaper was published in France by the United States Army from February 8, > 1918 to June 13, 1919. By early 1918, American forces were dispersed > throughout the western front, often mixed at the unit level with British, > French and Italian forces. The primary mission of The Stars and Stripes was > to provide these scattered troops with a sense of unity and an understanding > of their part in the overall war effort. > The eight-page weekly featured news from home, poetry, cartoons and sports > news, with a staff that included journalists Alexander Woollcott, Harold > Wallace Ross and Grantland Rice. On borrowed printing presses, using a > delivery network that combined trains, automobiles (including three > Cadillacs) and one motorcycle, the staff produced a newspaper with a > circulation that peaked at 526,000 copies. This new online collection > presents the complete run - 71 weeks - of the World War I edition. > > The collection also includes special presentations that discuss the > newspaper's content: its illustrations and advertising, its publication of > soldiers' poetry, its coverage of women. Brief biographies of editorial > staff members and their later careers hint at the level of journalistic > talent within The Stars and Stripes. A timeline and map place the newspaper > within the greater historical and geographical context of the war. > > The collection was processed with optical character recognition (OCR) > software to allow users to search the full text of the newspaper for a word > or phrase. This feature expands the collection's usefulness to historians > and genealogists researching names and details that do not appear in the > headlines. The Stars and Stripes collection served as a pilot project in > the development of search and display capabilities to be utilized on future > releases of historic newspapers. > > Please direct all general inquiries to: > http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-contactus2.html > > > > ==== KENTUCKY Mailing List ==== > The Registry -- NEW -- > http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/ > Help defeat spam > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >