Last month, the staff of the NJ Digital Newspaper Office wrote about the U.S. census in NJ’s historical newspapers. With census on our minds, we couldn’t help but notice this headline from the May 21, 1914 Bridgeton Pioneer. We hope…
Author: Caryn Radick
Old News of the Day–May 12-15
At the NJ Digital Newspaper Project office, we realize we’re often drawn to certain types of stories, images, and advertisements. Even though we ran a circus ad in last week’s post, we couldn’t resist featuring another one this week from…
Old News of the Day–May 3-7
Although we in the NJ Digital Newspaper Project office see plenty of images that make us do a double-take, we needed a minute to take in everything going on in this advertisement for a Barnum and Bailey Circus performance from…