Our thankss to Catherine Marx for sharing this info that was on another list. Please feel free to post anything genealogical in topic that others might need to know, at any time. You don't need our permission to share... GO FOR IT!!! We're all in this together. 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 Hope this helps, Lanita Sconce Miller Any family tree produces some lemons, some nuts and a few bad apples.

Another big thanks to Catherine Marx for referring the link. Catherine is getting to be an expert. ----- Original Message ----- From: "lanita miller" <ozarkn@southwind.net> To: <MO-OREGON-HISTORY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 10:08 AM Subject: [MO-OREGON-HISTORY] online collection of The Stars and Stripes > Our thankss to Catherine Marx for sharing this info that was on another > list. Please feel free to post anything genealogical in topic that > others might need to know, at any time. You don't need our permission > to share... GO FOR IT!!! We're all in this together. > > > > > > 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 > > > Hope this helps, > > Lanita Sconce Miller > > Any family tree produces some lemons, some nuts and a few bad apples. > > > ==== MO-OREGON-HISTORY Mailing List ==== > http://www.oregoncountyhistory.net/ >