e/American Newspaper Repository

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has glosseng: The American Newspaper Repository is a charity whose purpose is to collect and preserve original copies of American newspapers. It was founded in 1999 by the author Nicholson Baker when he learnt that the British Library was disposing of its collection of historic American newspapers. He cashed in his retirement fund to successfully bid for the collection at auction. With support from the Knight Foundation and MacArthur Foundation, the repository was established in an old mill building in New Hampshire. The collection was subsequently transferred to the care of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University in 2004.
lexicalizationeng: American Newspaper Repository
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