Thanks to the Rogue Valley Genealogical Society who sponsored this digitization project–and champion of all things related to southern Oregon history, Maureen Battistella–we are continuing to grow our collection of newspapers from that part of the state.
- Ashland Daily Evening Tidings (1890)
- Ashland Tidings (1894-1895; 1911-1912)
- Ashland Daily Tidings (1919-1921)
The Ashland Tidings is also a good example of how often newspaper titles change over time, which can be a challenge for cataloging and researching them. Each new title change requires a new LCCN (Library of Congress Control Number), which is similar to the unique ISBN number for books, which means we have to create separate entries for each title in Historic Oregon Newspapers. So even though Ashland Tidings, Ashland Daily Evening Tidings, and Ashland Daily Tidings are pretty much the same newspaper, the Library of Congress and our own serials catalogers have to treat them as distinct. This can be frustrating for researchers who might wonder which title to search for a given topic.
The most efficient way to search Historic Oregon Newspapers for a topic in a specific city is to search simultaneously across all of the newspapers from that city. To do that, start in Advanced Search, scroll down to the section Limit By, and select a city from the drop-down menu (see below).You can also change the dates to limit the results to a particular date range.
Digital Collections Librarian, University of Oregon Libraries
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