It took 7 pickup truck loads to get this huge collection of Trenton newspapers into my garage a number of years ago. The collection begins in the 1870's with only a volume or two from the late 1860's and fills up 4 shelves from floor to ceiling in my Local History Collection workshop at the Hamilton Township Public Library. Prior to the advent of the personal computer, digital image scanning was an unknown concept. Most libraries decided that these huge volumes took up too much storage space and opted to convert their newspaper collections to microfilm, and sending those impossible-to-replace originals to the recycle bin. Something told me that somewhere in the future this treasure of printed history would lend itself to a new technology, and of course it did! 
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Sunday, October 26, 2008
2008: MY TRENTON NEWSPAPER COLLECTION
It took 7 pickup truck loads to get this huge collection of Trenton newspapers into my garage a number of years ago. The collection begins in the 1870's with only a volume or two from the late 1860's and fills up 4 shelves from floor to ceiling in my Local History Collection workshop at the Hamilton Township Public Library. Prior to the advent of the personal computer, digital image scanning was an unknown concept. Most libraries decided that these huge volumes took up too much storage space and opted to convert their newspaper collections to microfilm, and sending those impossible-to-replace originals to the recycle bin. Something told me that somewhere in the future this treasure of printed history would lend itself to a new technology, and of course it did!
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