Just got an e-mail from a scholar who, like myself, works with non-digitized archival materials & therefore has their research process temporarily suspended by the quarantine. They had a small Q they could& #39;t find proof for, & asked if I could help. Here& #39;s what I suggested (1/7)
1. Try the Old Fulton Postcards Newspaper Repository. It& #39;s larger & more diverse than most databases, even if it& #39;s quite janky to use & cite. But more than once, it& #39;s saved me (2/7):

https://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html ">https://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.ht...
2. HathiTrust is an excellent source for old books and old information from 1920s-1930s and before (3/7):

https://www.hathitrust.org/ ">https://www.hathitrust.org/">...
For media history, nothing beats American Radio History for its OCR search in Broadcasting magazine & other materials (4/7)

https://www.americanradiohistory.com/ ">https://www.americanradiohistory.com/">...
I& #39;ve got a few more go-to digital archival places, but this thread& #39;s just intended to make public ways I& #39;ve been trying to work around place-based archival research. Maybe others have suggestions to add? Good luck to every historian locked out of the archives these days (7/7)
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