The Princecton Historical Society and the Princeton Public Library are proud to present the results of over a year of hard work: the online searchable database of Princeton's Historic Newspapers! A short instructional presentation about how to use the database will be given here on Monday, December 12th at 1pm and again at 6pm. Attendees will be shown the best methods for searching, quirks of searching including OCI errors, and interesting articles and headlines.
Princeton had six newspapers over the years. The digitized scans include editions from:
- Green Lake County Democrat 1879-1885
- Princeton Republic 1867-1937
- Princeton Republic-Star 1905-1906
- Princeton Star 1902-1905
- Princeton Times 1935-1937
- Princeton Times-Republic 1937-1993
Users are able to search all of these at once, or only one, or whichever they choose. The newspapers can be easily searched by name, keyword, and date (or date range).
To celebrate this achievement, anyone who wishes can request a free photocopy of a historic front page of the Princeton newspaper published on their birthday (or the closest date to it). Please contact the Princeton Public Library at ptplstaff@princetonpublib.org or 920-295-6777 to request your printout.
The digitization of this collection was made possible with contributions from the Princeton Historical Society, Princeton Public Library, the Caestecker (Green Lake) Library's Tom Gnewuch Memorial Fund, the Wisconsin Humanities Endowment, and the Winnefox Library System.