Historic Newspaper Archive Makes the Past Alive at San José Public Library

The San Jose Public Library has documented the Bay Area's history, including Santa Clara, by creating a vast digital archive of the Mercury News.

It’s often said that newspapers are the first draft of history, and a new archive at San José Public Library (SJPL) has made it a lot easier to read those first drafts of Bay Area history. The San Jose City Library’s new Mercury News archive provides online access to newspapers from 1900 to 1985, previously … Read more