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Viola, Lorella

ChroniclItaly

2018-06-21T10:03:07.000000 Open - freely retrievable

ChroniclItaly (Viola 2018) is a corpus of Italian language newspapers published in the United States between 1898 and 1920. The corpus includes seven Italian language newspapers published in California, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and West Virginia. The collection includes the following titles: L’Italia, Cronaca sovversiva, La libera parola, The patriot, La ragione, La rassegna, and La sentinella del West Virginia. ChroniclItaly, which totals 4,810 issues and contains 16,624,571 words, gathers the front pages of each issue and it was collected from Chronicling America (https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/), an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers published in the United States from 1789 to 1963 made available by the Library of Congress. ChroniclItaly is available as an open access resource.The files are arranged in two types: chronological and by newspaper's title to allow for either diachronic analysis or comparative across titles.

Italian language newspapers Ethnic press Historical newspapers Ethnic press in the United States

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