Fultonhistory.com (also known as Old Fulton New York Postcards) is an archival historic newspaper website of over 1,000 New York newspapers, along with collections from other states and Canada. As of February 2018, the website had almost 50 million scanned newspaper pages.
History
The large amount of content on the site, at least three times as large as the
National Digital Newspaper Program's ''
Chronicling America
''Chronicling America'' is an open access, open source newspaper database and companion website. It is produced by the United States National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between the Library of Congress and the National Endowm ...
'' site as of 2013, is also notable because the site is operated by one person, Tom Tryniski, of
Fulton, New York. He began running the website in 1999 with a collection of old postcards of Fulton. Subsequently, he scanned the entire run of the ''Oswego Valley News'', the primary newspaper for
Oswego County, New York
Oswego County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 117,525. The county seat is Oswego. The county name is from a Mohawk-language word meaning "the pouring out place", referring ...
where Fulton is located. In 2003, Tryniski purchased a microfilm scanner to expand his scanning project. As of May 2013, he is scanning approximately 250,000 pages per month.
As of December 2013, the site averaged six million page views per month. The website has retained its URL and "Old Fulton Post Cards" name despite its much expanded scope.
References
External links
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* {{URL, https://fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html, Index of historical New York newspapers
American digital libraries
History of newspapers in the United States
Postcards
1999 establishments in New York (state)
Internet properties established in 1999
Fulton County, New York