Yesterday the University of Richmond unveiled the online digitizing of the Civil War years of the Richmond Daily Dispatch.
The state-of-the-art digitizing project, which includes more exacting search techniques, used a $478,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and was conducted with Tufts University of Boston.
Thousands of pages were transcribed from microfilm by a Cambodian company, made tougher because ink often “bled through” on old newsprint and type from two pages overlapped.
The collection contains images of original pages and transcripts of each article in the 1,384 issues from November 1860 through December 1865.
