The Douglas Public Library (DPL) is excited to announce the completion of the first phase of a long- range project to bring the city’s local newspaper, the Douglas Daily Dispatch, online at the Arizona Memory Project (AMP). With grant funding from the Arizona State Library, over 400 reels of microfilm – more than 115 years and 400,000+ pages – were converted to searchable Portable Document File (PDF) format, and the first portion of the run (1926-1937) is now available to read and research at https://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/nodes/view/247363. DPL and AMP are working to make additional years available soon.
The Arizona Memory Project provides free online access worldwide to digitized Arizona archives such as photographs, maps, newspapers, directories, government documents, and multimedia files that chronicle Arizona’s past and present. According to AMP, Douglas newspapers provide content that is culturally and historically significant locally and nationally, adding value both to AMP's collections and to the research of individuals interested in Douglas history.
Because the Douglas Daily Dispatch has never before been indexed, this project is especially significant for researchers, since the paper is now keyword-searchable, making it much easier to find and read stories of interest – without having to search issue by issue and page by page.
Whether it’s an article about Camp Harry J. Jones, cross-country Powderpuff racers at Douglas International Airport, the development of copper mining, local and national politics, Apache raids, “Douglas Doings,” Prohibition, the local and national sports scene, John Dillinger, and so much more, our history is at your fingertips in the Douglas Daily Dispatch on the Arizona Memory Project.
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