Mary's Reputation

[Steve]

(07-21-2018 01:53 AM)kerry Wrote:  Interesting - I'd searched for him before and never caught that, but I just found it. Newspapers.com is awesome. I've found so much interesting stuff. But, unless I'm missing something, there is no proximity search. You can't say the words have to be within a certain distance from each other. So it is very inexact. But its interface is so user friendly and fast. Fulton Postcards has a ton of awesome stuff and is run by one guy who uploaded the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in no time, while the NYPL is still trying to finish it at the cost of millions of dollars. But its user friendliness is virtually nonexistent. Genealogy bank is best for proximity search.

The NYPL stopped trying to develop its Brooklyn Daily Eagle database and licensed out their holdings to newspapers.com. The NYPL website has a link to search page where one can search for words and images of the Eagle without a newspapers.com account for free:

https://www.nypl.org/collections/article...-1841-1902

As for the lack of proximity searches, I try to get around that by looking for multiple search terms at once and restricting the dates of my searches to make the search results more manageable.