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Exploring the Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm 1893\u20131964<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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how it started<\/strong>
Years ago, when I first found the digital archive of Charlottesville\u2019s Daily Progress<\/em> newspaper on the website of the University of Virginia Library, I noticed that in the 1890s and 1900s many African American obituaries were published on the front page. I started saving \u201cclippings\u201d by taking screen shots of obituaries and other articles pertinent to African Americans in Charlottesville. I’m sharing the clippings here.

how it works<\/strong>
The menu on this website includes four sections: article clippings<\/a>, obituary clippings<\/a>, article notes<\/a>, and obituary notes<\/a>. You’ll find one set of articles and obituaries in the clippings collection and another set in the notes, with some occasional overlap. That\u2019s because early on I saved hundreds of clippings, and later I switched to saving notes\u2014making a citation for each article or obituary with a link to its page in the Daily Progress<\/a><\/em> archive. I\u2019ve included notes here for articles and obituaries from 1893 through 1964 but because of copyright concerns I\u2019ve only included clippings published before 1928.

what’s next<\/strong>
I\u2019ll continue to add to this collection occasionally. I\u2019ve browsed the archive from March 1893 through December 1929, and I\u2019m now browsing 1930.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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a search function<\/strong>
It’s difficult to discover what information the Daily Progress<\/em> online archive contains about a particular person or topic because its text isn’t searchable. In 2023 the Daily Progress<\/em> 1954\u20132023<\/a> was added to the online archive at the Newspapers.com<\/a> subscription service. For earlier issues, 1893\u20131953, you can search here<\/a> to find names, places, or keywords in the citation texts or clipping titles included on my site.

please note<\/strong>
The early Daily Progress<\/em> was a conservative white newspaper with a distinctly Jim Crow perspective, and many of the clippings collected here are derogatory in nature. Obituaries had offensive titles and often even the most glowing tributes expressed nostalgia for the antebellum days and the \u201cold order.\u201d However, in those same obituaries priceless information about people can often be found\u2014facts not available anywhere else now\u2014death dates, church affiliations, relatives, employers, occupations.

the obituary collection<\/strong>
More than 800 African American obituaries from the Daily Progress<\/em> are collected here, 300 of them published before 1912, the year statewide death certificates were first required in Virginia. Obituaries published before that year can be especially valuable to family historians.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jane Smith
Charlottesville, Virginia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Online resources for background on Daily Progress<\/em> articles and obituaries
Charlottesville & Albemarle County History Resources Online<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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