Fultonhistory.com
{{Short description|Newspaper archive}}
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| name = Old Fulton New York Postcards
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| founded = {{Start date and age|1999}} in Fulton, United States
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| hq_location_city = Fulton
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| owner = Tom Tryniski
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Fultonhistory.com (also known as Old Fulton New York Postcards) is an archival historic newspaper website of over 1,000 New York newspapers, along with collections from other states and Canada. As of February 2018, the website had almost 50 million scanned newspaper pages.{{Cite news |last=Neason |first=Alexandria |date=February 6, 2018 |title=How Tom Tryniski digitized nearly 50 million pages of newspapers in his living room |url=https://www.cjr.org/the_profile/tom-tryniski-fultonhistory.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612163603/https://www.cjr.org/the_profile/tom-tryniski-fultonhistory.php |archive-date=June 12, 2018 |access-date=June 12, 2018 |work=Columbia Journalism Review |issn=0010-194X}}
History
The large amount of content on the site, at least three times as large as the National Digital Newspaper Program's Chronicling America site as of 2013, is also notable because the site is operated by one person, Tom Tryniski, of Fulton, New York. He began running the website in 1999 with a collection of old postcards of Fulton. Subsequently, he scanned the entire run of the Oswego Valley News, the primary newspaper for Oswego County, New York where Fulton is located. In 2003, Tryniski purchased a microfilm scanner to expand his scanning project. As of May 2013, he is scanning approximately 250,000 pages per month.{{Cite news |last=Epstein |first=Jim |date=March 5, 2013 |title=Amateur Beats Gov't at Digitizing Newspapers: Tom Tryniski's Weird, Wonderful Website |url=https://reason.com/video/2013/03/05/amateur-beats-gov-at-digitizing-newspape/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240627214501/https://reason.com/video/2013/03/05/amateur-beats-gov-at-digitizing-newspape/ |archive-date=June 27, 2024 |access-date=May 15, 2014 |work=Reason}}{{Cite news |last=Memmott |first=Jim |date=October 9, 2013 |title=Remarkable Rochester: Past comes alive through newspapers |url=https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/local/columnists/memmott/2013/10/09/remarkable-rochester-past-comes-alive-through-newspapers-/2953635/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210301004747/https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/local/columnists/memmott/2013/10/09/remarkable-rochester-past-comes-alive-through-newspapers-/2953635/ |archive-date=March 1, 2021 |access-date=May 15, 2014 |work=Democrat and Chronicle |issn=1088-5153}}
As of December 2013, the site averaged six million page views per month. The website has retained its URL and "Old Fulton Post Cards" name despite its much expanded scope.{{Cite news |last=Casey |first=Ashley M. |date=December 18, 2013 |title=Amateur historian preserves Fulton in online newspaper archive |url=http://valleynewsonline.com/blog/2013/12/18/amateurhistorianpreservesfultoninonlinenewspaperarchive/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517122354/http://valleynewsonline.com/blog/2013/12/18/amateurhistorianpreservesfultoninonlinenewspaperarchive/ |archive-date=May 17, 2014 |access-date=May 15, 2014 |work=The Valley News Online}}{{Cite news |last=Bishop |first=Camily |date=March 20, 2014 |title=One Man. Wicks and Wilson Scanners. 26+ Million Newspaper Images |url=https://thecrowleycompany.com/long-time-client-uses-wwl-scanners-digitize-26-million-newspaper-images/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240715000721/https://thecrowleycompany.com/long-time-client-uses-wwl-scanners-digitize-26-million-newspaper-images/ |archive-date=July 15, 2024 |access-date=March 17, 2014 |work=The Crowley Company}}
References
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External links
- {{official website}}
- {{URL|https://fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html|Index of historical New York newspapers}}
Category:American digital libraries
Category:History of newspapers in the United States
Category:1999 establishments in New York (state)