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Tips for Searching in Chronicling America

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The following is a guest post by Robin Butterhof, a Digital Conversion Specialist in the Serial and Government Publications Division.

Chronicling America has a new look! This month, we’ll be exploring the new Chronicling America interface and providing tips on how to best use the new site. In this series of posts, we’ll show you how to use multiple keyword search options and facet your search results to narrow your search.  We’ll also look at a map of all the digitized titles, clip out a newspaper article, see what issues we’ve digitized for a particular title, and much more.

On the new Chronicling America interface, simple search is at the top of every page.

Screenshot of the Chronicling America home page with the simple search circled at the top right of the page.
Note that “This Collection” is shown in the top search bar on the “About this Collection” page

To access the new Advanced Search, click on the “Collection Items” tab. Click the “-” button to minimize the Advanced Search and the “+” button to make it reappear again.