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NATIONAL DIGITAL NEWSPAPER PROGRAM
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the South Dakota State Historical Society-State Archives a $294,665 grant in 2014 to digitize historical newspapers. The project is part of a Library of Congress initiative to develop an online database of select newspapers.
The South Dakota State Archives is partnering with the Minnesota State Historical Society on this project.
The project will allow for the digitization of close to 100 rolls of newspapers pre-dating 1922.
The digitized versions of the newspapers will appear on the Library of Congress website, Chronicling America.
Now Available on Chronicling America
Aberdeen
The Aberdeen Democrat (Aberdeen, SD) - 1902-1909The State Democrat (Aberdeen, SD) - 1898-1900
Big Stone City
The Grant County Herald (Big Stone City, SD) - 1879-1883The Herald (Big Stone City, SD) - 1883-1890
Canton
The Canton Advocate (Canton, SD) - 1877-1888Canton Daily Leader (Canton, SD) - 1896
Dakota Farmer's Advocate (Canton, SD) - 1890
Dakota Farmer's Leader (Canton, SD) - 1890-1916
Lincoln County Advocate (Canton, SD) - 1876-1877
The Daily Dakota Farmers' Leader (Canton, SD) - 1890
Clifton
Sully County Watchman (Clifton, SD) - 1883-1894Forest City
Forest City Press (Forest City, SD) - 1903-1919Hot Springs
The Hot Springs Star (Hot Springs, SD) - 1887-1892Hot Springs Weekly Star (Hot Springs, SD) - 1892-1917
Hurley
Turner County Herald (Hurley, SD) - 1883-1918Kimball
Kimball Enterprise (Kimball, SD) - 1883The Kimball Graphic (Kimball, SD) - 1883-1905
Lemmon
The Lemmon Herald (Lemmon, SD) - 1912-1917Milbank
The Advance (Milbank, SD) - 1890The Herald-Advance (Milbank, SD) - 1890-1922
Mitchell
The Mitchell Capital (Mitchell, SD) - 1885-1918North Lemmon
The State-Line Herald (North Lemmon, ND) - 1908-1912Pierre
Pierre Weekly Free Press (Pierre, SD) - 1890-1918Rapid City
The Black Hills Union (Rapid City, SD) - 1889-1904Black Hills Union and Western Stock Review (Rapid City, SD) - 1904-1911
Scotland
The Citizen-Republican (Scotland, SD) - 1903-1921Sioux Falls
Süd Dakota Nachrichten (Sioux Falls, SD) - 1896-1900Süd Dakota Nachrichten und Herold (Sioux Falls, SD) - 1900-1901
Nachrichten=Herold (Sioux Falls, SD) - 1901-1907
Deutscher Herold (Sioux Falls, SD) - 1907-1918
Sisseton
The Sisseton Weekly Standard (Sisseton, SD) - 1904-1921Watertown
Saturday News (Watertown, SD) - 1908-1919Wessington Springs
Wessington Springs Herald (Wessington Springs, SD) - 1883-1891Yankton
Daily Press and Dakotaian (Yankton, SD) - 1875-1880Press and Daily Dakotaian (Yankton, SD) - 1880-1889
Yankton Daily Press and Dakotaian (Yankton, SD) - 1875
News
South Dakota newspapers now available on national online database (10/5/2015)
Four additional South Dakota newspaper titles now available online (1/14/2016)
Historic Kimball newspaper titles now available online (4/4/2016)
Six more historic newspaper titles now available online (6/30/2016)
State Historical Society receives grant to put more historic newspapers online (12/16/2016)
Newspaper digitization advisory board selects newspapers to digitize for federal grant (4/26/2017)