tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post3503274517839719850..comments2024-03-28T12:31:21.785-07:00Comments on SearchReSearch: Answer: Who was she, and how much did she get?Dan Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13603209997260423532noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-44316326964444652302011-12-22T21:21:46.620-08:002011-12-22T21:21:46.620-08:00A little off topic, but according to US copyright ...A little off topic, but according to US copyright laws, any work published before 1923 are supposedly in the public domain. How can newspapers charge you for articles written in the 1890's?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03016065947505159010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-54478869902147936982011-12-14T09:42:36.366-08:002011-12-14T09:42:36.366-08:00This is an interesting topic to research. It must...This is an interesting topic to research. It must be relevance but I recently read a historical novel on the Kindle app called "The Wonder of Worlds" which has an entire chapter on Twain and this typesetter. I was already interested in the Linotype and Monotype typesetters but had not heard of the Paige machine previously.<br /><br />I am a frequent user of a couple newspaper archives for my research. I used ProQuest Historic Newspapers for many years but now don't have a university affiliation in the family. With it I could use the big US papers like the NY Times, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, Atlanta Journal, Washington Post, Hartford Courant, and probably a couple others I have forgotten. So far I have not found a place to subscribe as an independent scholar at an affordable rate.<br /><br />I do subscribe to NewspaperArchive.com and GenealogyBank.com and these provide access to smaller newspapers. The content of the former can also be obtained via my Ancestry.com account but the output is not as nice and the search is not as flexible (though NA could be better!). Hence, I continue to subscribe to all three.<br /><br />Interesting that you looked to the LA Times for your answer and the pay articles there. The NY Times is closer to the events (so might have more detail) and most of the pre-1923 articles are free on their site.<br /><br />One of the things I have noticed is that there was (and still is) a huge practice of syndicating articles so that the same content is repeated verbatim in many newspapers around the country. Before electronic transmission these articles were distributed via electrotype plates that could be mailed and used as filler for a smaller paper. A larger paper would be more likely to typeset it themselves and edit for length needs.<br /><br />We like to watch History Detectives on PBS and sometimes I will engage in a parlor game of trying to research the topics being described in the segment. Quite often I can find the desired data quicker than they can get around to revealing it in the show. Some topics and artifacts are easier than others for this game. My one rule for myself was to avoid a straight Google search since it might pull up a transcript for the show or someone reviewing the episode. However, Google Patents (free), the newspaper archives, Ancestry.com, and FamilySearch.org (free) are tools I have employed with success.<br /><br />Now, if I could just get the NJ libraries to loan the Elizabeth and Newark newspaper microfilms to NewspaperArchive.com for digitization I could make quicker progress on some of my projects.<br /><br />Jameskeelinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16006640946874012637noreply@blogger.com