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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't find proof for, & asked if I could help. Here's what I suggested (1/7)
1. Try the Old Fulton Postcards Newspaper Repository. It's larger & more diverse than most databases, even if it's quite janky to use & cite. But more than once, it's saved me (2/7):
https://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html
https://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html
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 am *NOT* a Ron Unz fan, and detest much of the racist politics on his website. But the site has digitzed an enormous number of out-of-print mainstream periodicals (like The Saturday Review) & you can search for them here (5/7) https://www.unz.com/print/Search/?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=9cbd8f274c80aea62849129c806d937f5ed3f58c-1587564823-0-AVFiYWrFMpV2SvkG9Qvw8cD5xKptwKdaho7a6gpProCEJMNpqJYuG9Zb_B4Xs-rNIYPciYFRIgCzf2IxRsIi2Acq8K9Yjn_yjV3TqKeGe4RaTpqX6ddtxgZNDt8zAZHIsdLdO5jfT9IHDFtwMyaDw407JaYkiFrEhWsfNRM4A7mAlz7nvyEI2-D1mA2stG8H02S0X6kvI8VNQxmfh-xyKM9kDT7o29tOlx6SK5eFqvBgd5Izuk_WIZibJEocwwc03tR8OAJXhpiCVRG7P945AxXoTOlvhb0aWG1CjE2AWlrA
There exist many aggregators of digital archival materials. One of my favorites is the Digital Public Library of America (6/7) https://dp.la/
I've got a few more go-to digital archival places, but this thread's just intended to make public ways I'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)
