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On-Line Newspapers

Written by Heather Tennies, Director of Archival Services   

The Lancaster County Historical Society is committed to providing our patrons with local primary resources through digital media.

The Lancaster County Historical Society is a participant in the Lancaster County Digitization Project, a consortium of institutions interested in digitizing the county's newspaper and manuscript collections.  Through this and other collaborative efforts we have been able to provide the several county newspapers in digital format.
 
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Pennsylvania Civil War Newspapers

pacivilwarnewspapersPennsylvania Civil War Newspapers, a project at the Penn State University Libraries, allows users to search the full text of eleven newspapers from around the Commonwealth for the years 1850 to 1870.  The Lancaster County Historical Society is a part of this effort in making the contents of key newspapers available on the Internet. The historical society provided microfilm of The Columbia Spy so that it could be digitized

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