Probably later than your time period but I just released a dataset of late 19th and early 20th c African American newspapers found in the Rowell and Ayer directories for a forthcoming article: zenodo.org/records/1942...
I owe you an email but chiming in to say I'm so glad to see at least one other scholar who loves directories
The new features are still in alpha—but @djevans.bsky.social's contextual tools for Viral Texts data are live clusters.viraltexts.org
Click "View witness in context" to see a given reprint on the newspaper page, alongside other reprints on that page—click a cluster ID here to see its other reprints
!Stop Press! Article on bias in digitised newspaper collections: ’Whose News’, in the new journal of @comphumresearch.bsky.social by Kaspar Beelen, @jonhistorian61.bsky.social, @kmcdono.bsky.social and me. See blog for summary & 🧵 1/7
Article doi.org/10.1017/chr....
Blog is.gd/2IFc30
#dh #c19 🗃️
with apologies to @xkcd.com
@zoeleblanc.bsky.social @djevans.bsky.social working with serial data. Focusing on periodicals that offer insights into the global south as well as with copyrighted info. A shout out to @bschmidt.bsky.social bc drawing on his approach to sequence alignment. #chr2024