{"id":1300,"date":"2013-12-15T03:56:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T03:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2013-12-16T02:41:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T02:41:33","slug":"delaware-county-library-has-online-digital-copies-of-chester-pa-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/delaware-county-library-has-online-digital-copies-of-chester-pa-newspapers\/","title":{"rendered":"Delaware County Library Has Online Digital Copies of Chester PA Newspapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a rapid pace these days, old newspapers are being digitized and made openly available to researchers and as I work on projects I often found additional collections of these valuable publications.\u00a0 That was the case recently, as I worked on the <a href=\"http:\/\/cecilcounty.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/26\/details-announced-for-flight-214-remembrance-program-on-dec-8-2013\/\">\u201cFlight 214 Remembrance Program\u201d<\/a> to mark the passage of fifty years since a Pan American World Airways jet on approach to Philadelphia crashed.\u00a0 The big jet was struck by lightning and everyone onboard perished.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the passengers were from Southeastern Pennsylvania and South Jersey, so I needed to examine 1963 papers from those areas.\u00a0 Many haven\u2019t been digitized yet, but I discovered one very helpful resource, which I think will have value for other readers of this blog.\u00a0 The Delaware County (PA) Library System has created high quality e-copies of\u00a0products published in Chester.<\/p>\n<p>The newspapers in the database are fully searchable and are excellent for gaining the local perspective on historical news or for researching your family history. The databases, provided to the Library System by the Newspaper Archive, includes, papers beginning in 1867 and running up to 1976.\u00a0 The titles include the Chester Daily Times, Chester Evening Times, Chester Reporter, Chester Times, and Delaware County Daily Times.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/delawarecolib.newspaperarchive.com\/\">Click here to access the Delaware County Public Library&#8217;s digital archives.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1301\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1301\" style=\"width: 1205px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12-14-2013-10-29-41-PM.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1301\" alt=\"A Chester Times extra announcements an assassination attempt on President McKinley in 1901.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12-14-2013-10-29-41-PM.jpg?resize=640%2C372&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12-14-2013-10-29-41-PM.jpg?w=1205&amp;ssl=1 1205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12-14-2013-10-29-41-PM.jpg?resize=300%2C174&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12-14-2013-10-29-41-PM.jpg?resize=1024%2C595&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12-14-2013-10-29-41-PM.jpg?resize=800%2C465&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1301\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Chester Times extra announcements an assassination attempt on President McKinley in 1901.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a rapid pace these days, old newspapers are being digitized and made openly available to researchers and as I work on projects I often found additional collections of these valuable publications.\u00a0 That was the case recently, as I worked on the \u201cFlight 214 Remembrance Program\u201d to mark the passage of fifty years since a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Delaware County Library Has Online Digital Copies of Chester PA Newspapers  - Mike&#039;s History Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I use this blog as a place to share my experiences while practicing the history craft. 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