California Revealed Project
Saved from the Garbage Bin
Please see the update to this scanning project at this link as of December 2023 -
In 2021, during Covid no less, Truckee-Donner Historical Society received a call that Sierra Sun bound volumes would be "trashed" rather than saved! TDHS to the rescue. We rescued 180+ bound volumes in hopes that someday, somehow, we could get these digitized. The problem, where to store them all until that time happened.
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As part of yet another digitization effort - to get the Sierra Sun Truckee Republican (SSTR) issues digitally scanned - we were fortunately selected to receive a nominal California Revealed * award to digitize 10 years worth of these valuable bound newspapers. The years run from 1933-1944 (see image below), years for which there are currently NO available online Truckee newspapers. We were very lucky to retrieve these volumes before they were lost in time. After a submission for a grant to prepare them for digitization, Truckee-Donner Historical Society was awarded 10 years worth.
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Thank you President Zirbel for being at the right place at the right time to coordinate an application, thank you to Dave DePuy for spearheading the submission, and a HUGE thank you to all the volunteers - Chaun, Barbara, Dave, Eric, Greg, Heidi, Jackie - who spent countless hours indexing some 3,100 pages of 565 issues. [Collectively we reviewed some 86,854 pages for 38 years and there are an additional 2,313 issues, you can see why we were cross-eyed by the June 30, 2022 deadline. So if you know of anyone who would like to continue to assist us in this MOST IMPORTANT task of scan preparation of these newspapers, PLEASE let us know. We can't do this alone! Of the 182 volumes we retrieved, we still have another 53 volumes to index, and are still MISSING these years: 1934, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1963, 1967, 1968 - Jan. - June, and 1969 July - Dec. if you know where these MISSING SSTR volumes are, PLEASE let us know. ]
Above images show TDHS pickup of the SSTR volumes from a Carson City warehouse, books stacked on the Old Truckee Jail Museum floor - not a safe place for irreplaceable historical text - and more SSTR volumes stacked wherever we have room.
* California Revealed is a California State Library initiative that helps heritage organizations digitize, preserve, and provide FREE online access to materials documenting the state’s history, art, and cultures. By providing online access to digitized materials, California Revealed is working to aggregate California’s digital collections into a single resource available at californiarevealed.org. California Revealed records are also accessible through the Internet Archive, the Digital Public Library of America, Calisphere, and the Home Movie Registry, affording multiple free public access points. Examples of small newspaper digitization efforts, similar to our Truckee Republican Sierra Sun bound volumes, are Pacific News and Miners' Advocate, both publications dealing with Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park.)
NEWSFLASH!!!
We just received notice Friday evening, December 23 that TDHS's monumental efforts
have been again rewarded with a second grant to scan additional issues for this
California Revealed digitization process.
We are so grateful to be able to continue this effort and eventually
make these SSTR issues available FREE online for public review.
We just received notice Friday evening, December 23 that TDHS's monumental efforts
have been again rewarded with a second grant to scan additional issues for this
California Revealed digitization process.
We are so grateful to be able to continue this effort and eventually
make these SSTR issues available FREE online for public review.
HCS 12/6/2023
