Kickstarter project to preserve and digitize 40+ years of the Times-Picayune!
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For years, material culture enthusiast Joseph Makkos salvaged letterpresses and boxes of rare lead type from local print shops. He was trawling through Craigslist one day in 2013 when he came upon an ad for a "historic newspaper collection." Mere hours later, he had become the proud owner of a Times-Picayune archive from 1888 up to 1929, a collection originally among the newspaper holdings of The British Library..."
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/intelligentarchives/preserve-and-digitize
Additional background from the Columbia Journalism Review:
https://archives.cjr.org/feature/remaking_history.php
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