Post Script
April 2003 Volume 13, Number 2
Issued quarterly by the
Friends of the New York State
Newspaper Project
Recent News
Project Update
The Project continues its inventory of the New York City metropolitan area. To date over 9,900 newspaper titles have been identified as being published in New York State.
The following provides a detailed breakdown of our findings for the five boroughs of New York City and Westchester Country:
Titles Surveyed |
County of Publication |
50 |
Bronx |
81 |
Richmond |
159 |
Queens |
199 |
Kings |
288 |
Westchester |
1,638 |
New York |
The number of New York County published newspapers continues to dominate our statewide effort. It is interesting to note that Erie County has the second largest number of titles with 423. Following Erie is Nassau County with 389 titles, Suffolk with 341 titles, Monroe with 326 titles and Albany County with 313 titles.
In the first three months of this year, the Project has filmed over 119,000 pages of New York State history contained in newspapers. In the past year alone, 24 newspapers microfilmed were from the New York City area.
Field Work
The surveying and cataloging of newspaper collections was completed or continued at the following institutions during the months of January, February and March:
Queens College (Flushing, Queens); YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (New York, New York); Museum for Chinese in American (New York, New York); Manhattan College (Riverdale,
Bronx); and the newspaper office of Qiao Bao - The China Press (New York, New York).
Current Statistics through 3/31/03
21,324 |
Newspapers cataloged |
9,911 |
Of these were published in NYS |
3,262,769 |
Pages microfilmed |
Friends Group
Meetings of the Friends of the NYSNP were held on February 11 and March 11. The January 14 meeting was cancelled.
News from the Past
Inventions Mean Jobs
To those doubting Thomases who shake their heads dolefully and argue that new inventions and machines cause unemployment, two recent news items should be required reading.
They disclose that two new industries, which will contribute to a further rise in the American living standard, are about to be born.
One is television. Literally millions have been spent in research in this field. Now television sets are to be produced commercially by next spring.
The other industry will make a new yarn material. It, too, was born in an industrial research laboratory. It will be housed in two large factories, costing $17,000.000.
Thousands of new jobs will be created in these industries. How many, nobody can foresee. But their development constitutes a formidable argument against pending proposals to hamstring science and invention by putting them under Federal supervision.
Taken from the New York and Brooklyn Daily (Brooklyn, NY) March 20, 1963