Portuguese-American Digital Newspaper Collection

[Sonia Pacheco]

Since I know a number of list participants are from California, a FYI :)  I have attached poster advertising the 4 talks I will be giving in the next few days in the San Jose area.  You can also contact me for more information.  The text of the poster is below:

Portuguese-American Digital Newspaper Collection

The Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives at the Claire T. Carney Library and the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth announce the addition of 14 Portuguese-language newspapers published in California between 1885 and 1940 to its Portuguese-American Digital Newspaper Collections.

The project was done in collaboration with the J.A. Freitas Library, a Special Collections Library privately owned and operated by the Supreme Council of P.F.S.A. in San Leandro, CA, which provided the original newspapers.

This unique collection, which includes some of the earliest known Portuguese-language newspapers in the U.S., such as O Progresso Californiense, first published in July of 1885, may be accessed through the Internet for free and without a password at http://lib.umassd.edu/archives/paa/PADigitalNewsColl.html
 
Each issue of the newspapers in the collection may be browsed on its entirety or searched by keyword. The site also offers the possibility of searching across all issues of the same paper or across all newspapers in the collection.

Formal presentations about the digitized newspapers will be done by Sonia Pacheco, Archivist for the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives at the following:
J.A. Freitas Library: April 28 at 6:00 PM (1120-24 E. 14th Street, San Leandro, CA)
Portuguese Historical Museum: April 29 at 2:00 PM, History Park San Jose, Phelan Ave entrance, San Jose, CA. Contact Al Dutra at 650-575-9951.
University of California, Berkeley on May 2nd and San Jose State University on May 3rd (For time and place please contact Prof. Deolinda Adão at 408-924-4022 or
deolin...@sjsu.edu).

All presentations are free and open to the public.

Sónia Pacheco
Librarian Archivist
Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese American Archives
Claire T. Carney Library
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
285 Old Westport Road
N. Dartmouth, MA 02747
Tel. 508-999-8695
Fax  508-999-8424
Email spac...@umassd.edu
Web site:  http://www.lib.umassd.edu/archives/Archives.html