{"id":3208,"date":"2019-08-29T12:48:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T17:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/?p=3208"},"modified":"2019-09-19T15:12:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T20:12:15","slug":"lan-series-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/blog\/lan-series-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Latin American Newspapers Series 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now available: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/proxy\/go.php?url=http:\/\/infoweb.newsbank.com\/?db=WHNPX&amp;d_collections=WHNPLAN2\">Latin American Newspapers Series 2<\/a>. Part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/proxy\/go.php?url=http:\/\/infoweb.newsbank.com\/?db=WHNPX\">World Newspaper Archive<\/a> (which also includes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/proxy\/go.php?url=http:\/\/infoweb.newsbank.com\/?db=WHNPX&amp;d_collections=WHNPAFR1|WHNPAFR2\">African Newspapers<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/proxy\/go.php?url=http:\/\/infoweb.newsbank.com\/?db=WHNPX&amp;d_collections=WHNPASIA1\">South Asian Newspapers<\/a>), Latin American Newspapers Series 2 is the second module in what is arguably becoming the best digital collection of Central and South American newspapers available anywhere.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Series 2 boasts four times as many titles as Series 1. Series 2 also marks a major leap forward in digitization quality, which was regrettably poor in the Series 1 release. For example, many issues of <em>Jornal do Commercio<\/em> were so shabbily digitized as to be practically illegible:<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3208 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2019\/08\/Jornal_do_Commercio_published_as_JORNAL_DO_COMMERCIO.___August_31_1884.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2019\/08\/Jornal_do_Commercio_published_as_JORNAL_DO_COMMERCIO.___August_31_1884-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Jornal do Commercio (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), August 31, 1884\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2019\/08\/Jornal_do_Commercio_published_as_JORNAL_DO_COMMERCIO.___August_31_1884-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2019\/08\/Jornal_do_Commercio_published_as_JORNAL_DO_COMMERCIO.___August_31_1884-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2019\/08\/Jornal_do_Commercio_published_as_JORNAL_DO_COMMERCIO.___August_31_1884-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2019\/08\/Jornal_do_Commercio_published_as_JORNAL_DO_COMMERCIO.___August_31_1884-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2019\/08\/Jornal_do_Commercio_published_as_JORNAL_DO_COMMERCIO.___August_31_1884.jpg 1367w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3231'>\n\t\t\t\tDetail from: <em>Jornal do Commercio<\/em> (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), August 31, 1884, in Latin American Newspapers: Series 1.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2019\/08\/Jornal_do_Commercio_published_as_JORNAL_DO_COMMERCIO.___January_1_1889.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2019\/08\/Jornal_do_Commercio_published_as_JORNAL_DO_COMMERCIO.___January_1_1889-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Detail from: Jornal do Commercio (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), January 1, 1889.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2019\/08\/Jornal_do_Commercio_published_as_JORNAL_DO_COMMERCIO.___January_1_1889-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2019\/08\/Jornal_do_Commercio_published_as_JORNAL_DO_COMMERCIO.___January_1_1889-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2019\/08\/Jornal_do_Commercio_published_as_JORNAL_DO_COMMERCIO.___January_1_1889-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2019\/08\/Jornal_do_Commercio_published_as_JORNAL_DO_COMMERCIO.___January_1_1889-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3232'>\n\t\t\t\tDetail from: <em>Jornal do Commercio<\/em> (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), January 1, 1889, in Latin American Newspapers: Series 1.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2019\/08\/Jornal_do_Commercio_published_as_JORNAL_DO_COMMERCIO.___July_1_1849.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2019\/08\/Jornal_do_Commercio_published_as_JORNAL_DO_COMMERCIO.___July_1_1849-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Detail from: Jornal do Commercio (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), July 1, 1849.\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2019\/08\/Jornal_do_Commercio_published_as_JORNAL_DO_COMMERCIO.___July_1_1849-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2019\/08\/Jornal_do_Commercio_published_as_JORNAL_DO_COMMERCIO.___July_1_1849-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2019\/08\/Jornal_do_Commercio_published_as_JORNAL_DO_COMMERCIO.___July_1_1849-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2019\/08\/Jornal_do_Commercio_published_as_JORNAL_DO_COMMERCIO.___July_1_1849-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3233'>\n\t\t\t\tDetail from: <em>Jornal do Commercio<\/em> (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), July 1, 1849, in Latin American Newspapers: Series 1.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>In Series 2, the overall quality of digitization appears to be far better.<\/p>\n<p>Series 2 also includes several Caribbean newspapers, and these newspapers can be cross-searched with those in the collection <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/proxy\/go.php?url=http:\/\/infoweb.newsbank.com\/?db=EANX&amp;d_collections=EANACN\">Caribbean Newspapers<\/a>, all of which can (of course) be cross-searched with Latin American Newspapers Series 1.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the newspapers in Series 2 were digitized from the collections of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crl.edu\/\">Center for Research Libraries<\/a> in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to new titles, Series 2 also greatly expands the number of issues for key titles in Series 1, such as Brazil&#8217;s <em>Jornal do Commercio<\/em>: Series 1 gave us the years 1849, and 1884 to 1901. Now, with Series 2, we have the paper&#8217;s very first issue, in 1827, through 1922. Series 2 also adds four more years (1919-1922) of the Panama <em>Daily Star and Herald<\/em>, and almost 13,000 new issues of<em> El Comercio<\/em> (Lima, Peru), which fill gaps in the Series 1 release, and also extends that run to 1913.<\/p>\n<p>The selection of Mexican newspapers provides excellent coverage of the Mexican-American War period, including several English language newspapers published in Mexico for the occupying American troops.<\/p>\n<p>You will find newspapers from twenty nations in Series 2, including newspapers from eleven nations not previously represented in Series 1, and these eleven are indicated in the following list by a &#8220;plus sign&#8221;\u00a0<span class=\" fa fa-plus-circle sh-text-alma_mater\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span> (we&#8217;ve also listed here a few of more significant newspapers in Series 2):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mexico\n<ul>\n<li><em>Hesperia<\/em> (Mexico City).<\/li>\n<li><em>Courrier Fran\u00e7ais<\/em> (Mexico City).<\/li>\n<li><em>Diario del Hogar<\/em> (Mexico City).<\/li>\n<li><em>Opini\u00f3n<\/em> (Veracruz).<\/li>\n<li><em>El Universal<\/em> (Mexico City).<\/li>\n<li><em>Dem\u00f3crata<\/em> (Mexico City).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Guatemala\n<ul>\n<li><em>Bien P\u00fablico<\/em> (Quetzaltenango).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Belize <span class=\" fa fa-plus-circle sh-text-alma_mater\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Colonial Guardian<\/em> (Belize City).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Honduras <span class=\" fa fa-plus-circle sh-text-alma_mater\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Estado<\/em> (Tegucigalpa).<\/li>\n<li><em>Cronista<\/em> (Tegucigalpa).<\/li>\n<li><em>Republicano<\/em> (Tegucigalpa).<\/li>\n<li><em>Prensa<\/em> (Tegucigalpa).<\/li>\n<li><em>Nuevo Tiempo<\/em> (Tegucigalpa).<\/li>\n<li><em>Excelsior<\/em> (Tegucigalpa).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>El Salvador <span class=\" fa fa-plus-circle sh-text-alma_mater\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Nicaragua <span class=\" fa fa-plus-circle sh-text-alma_mater\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Costa Rica\u00a0<span class=\" fa fa-plus-circle sh-text-alma_mater\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Panama<\/li>\n<li>Cuba\n<ul>\n<li><em>Diario de la Marina<\/em> (Havana).<\/li>\n<li><em>Mundo<\/em> (Havana).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Dominican Republic <span class=\" fa fa-plus-circle sh-text-alma_mater\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Diario del Salvador<\/em> (San Salvador).<\/li>\n<li><em>List\u00edn Diario<\/em> (Santo Domingo).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Haiti <span class=\" fa fa-plus-circle sh-text-alma_mater\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Moniteur Haitien<\/em> (Port-au-Prince).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Brazil\n<ul>\n<li><em>Rio News<\/em> (Rio de Janeiro).<\/li>\n<li><em>Provincia do Par\u00e1<\/em> (Bel\u00e9m).<\/li>\n<li><em>Folha do Amazonas<\/em> (Manaus).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Argentina\n<ul>\n<li><em>Naci\u00f3n<\/em> (Buenos Aires).<\/li>\n<li><em>Cr\u00edtica<\/em> (Buenos Aires).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Chile\n<ul>\n<li><em>Mercurio de Valpara\u00edso<\/em> (Valpara\u00edso).<\/li>\n<li><em>Estrella<\/em> (Valpara\u00edso).<\/li>\n<li><em>South Pacific Mail<\/em> (Valpara\u00edso).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Bolivia\u00a0<span class=\" fa fa-plus-circle sh-text-alma_mater\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><em>\u00c9poca<\/em> (La Paz).<\/li>\n<li><em>Heraldo<\/em> (Cochabamba).<\/li>\n<li><em>Diario<\/em> (La Paz).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Peru<\/li>\n<li>Colombia\u00a0<span class=\" fa fa-plus-circle sh-text-alma_mater\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Conservador<\/em> (Bogot\u00e1).<\/li>\n<li><em>Correo Nacional<\/em> (Bogot\u00e1).<\/li>\n<li><em>Opini\u00f3n<\/em> (Bogot\u00e1).<\/li>\n<li><em>Nuevo Tiempo<\/em> (Bogot\u00e1).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Ecuador\u00a0<span class=\" fa fa-plus-circle sh-text-alma_mater\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Venezuela\n<ul>\n<li><em>Universal<\/em> (Caracas).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Paraguay <span class=\" fa fa-plus-circle sh-text-alma_mater\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Last, but certainly not least, Readex has vastly improved its interface, and users will be pleasantly surprised by the faster, more streamlined experience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/newspapers\/news_search_results.php?title=&amp;city=&amp;call_no=&amp;state=&amp;year=&amp;country=&amp;collection=WNAL&amp;portfolio=&amp;language=&amp;subject=ALL&amp;format=&amp;library=\">Click here to view a complete list of newspapers in Latin American Newspapers Series 1 and Series 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"borderbox panel panel-default palette-blue\"><div class=\"panel-body\"><br \/>\n<span class=\" fa fa-external-link\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/proxy\/go.php?url=http:\/\/infoweb.newsbank.com\/?db=WHNPX&amp;d_collections=WHNPLAN2\">Go to <em>Latin American Newspapers: Series 2<\/em> now<\/a>.<\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now available: Latin American Newspapers Series 2. Part of the World Newspaper Archive (which also includes African Newspapers, and South Asian Newspapers), Latin American Newspapers Series 2 is the second module in what is arguably becoming the best digital collection of Central and South American newspapers available anywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,46,47],"tags":[64,123,6,122,125,58,124],"class_list":["post-3208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-hpnl","category-new-resources","tag-caribbean","tag-central-america","tag-history","tag-latin-america","tag-mexico","tag-newspapers","tag-south-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3208"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3351,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions\/3351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/hpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}