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Buffalo, Erie Co., NY
Dziennik Dla Wszystkich |
For the set of newspapers from May 1st - August 31st, 1920 all full page images are hosted outside of this site. 1 Because of this, I have it set that when you click for these newspaper images in the area below, which is divided for the month and groupings of days within that month, you will open a separate window that allows you to find the images you want (listed for each day) and then open one or more of those images in that separate window. |
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This newspaper was published 1907-1957 in Buffalo, NY for the Polish community. Most of the articles, publication items, notices, or advertisments are in the Polish language, although occasionally you do encounter English. These issues indexed here are from the late Spring and the Summer of 1920 (May 1st - August 31st).
Each issue's nameplate at the top of front page has the newspaper's name and a publication date/issue line. This gives the day of the week it was published, the date published (day/month/year), volume, issue number, and place of publication. Some of this is in both Polish and in English. The volume is given for the year 1920 as "Rok XIV" (14th year) since the paper is in it's 14th year of publication. Issues are sequentially numbered (for the most part) although there are a couple of discrepancies in this series of papers. When there is a discrepancy noted, '(sic)' will be employed to call attention to that, as in the case of two different issue dates being given the same issue number, or where there is a skip in numbers and there should not be. I cannot tell if any issues prior to May 1st of this year had any errors in labelling on the issue number as I have no access to those.
Access to the actual images provided here are images on another internet site (http://www.fultonhistory.com), and I have graciously been given permission by the site owner to link to those. However any use of the images on his site, whether accessed from here with these links or by going to his site to search for these are solely based on that site's terms and agreements. When you click on these you are going outside of my site. The purpose of having the links here is to be able to give you the actual page of the newspaper to see for specific dates (as his site doesn't have this set of newspapers categorized by date for searching), to provide a visual source for a transcription I do, to provide a link to the internet source (reference) for items I may index, and to provide a more widespread availability of seeing some of these newspapers on-line for those interested in the Polish area of East Buffalo or for people reported on in these papers who may not live in Buffalo but for some reason were deemed noteworthy enough to the Polish Community's interest to have it published in some of these papers. However, that is not to say you should not go and use his site and learn the ways to search his papers. I cannot provide or pre-empt his wonderful search feature, and to not avail yourself of what he has may be a disservice to you. You may need to learn how to use his site if you are truly interested in finding more that newspapers have to offer when you look for your ancestors or to learn about the time period. I find it exciting in the scope of newspapers that the owner of that site has actively scanned and made available for non-commercial purposes. As such, my linking to these is totally non-commercial as well. No permission is given or implied for commercial use of these by virtue of being on here as a link.
Inside pages have only the paper's name at the top, there is no pagination noted. But I have perused every one in pdf order given on www.fultonhistory.com and find it entirely reasonable to conclude that each is presented sequentially; which means the un-numbered pages following a front page are the pages, in order, that they were when published. Therefore the un-numbered and un-dated pages do belong to the issue that is named and dated prior to those pages. Also I find that there will be no way of fully documenting each page as a finite number in a citation as a page number since they were not originally identified as such and any numbering system employed is after the fact. But they can be documented for citation purposes as the date of issue and a notational number. So an issue that is x number of pages in length with no pages numbered, but the date of the paper is known can be interpreted (for means of identifying where in the paper the article or other item was found) as publication year/issue, date of publication: [x (st/nd/rd/th, etc.) un-numbered page x], where x is the page number it would be if starting with the front page as number 1, and adding one number with each image after that. So a citation for an obituary (say for the person whose obituary notice was given on image 611 of this group of newspaper pages (http://www.fultonhistory.com/Process Small/Newspapers/Newspapers Out of NY/ Buffalo NY Everybodys Daily (Polish) /Everybodys Daily (611).pdf) where image 609 was the front page of that issue, and which had as it's name line "Sp. Maryanna Janus" would be:
— Janus, Maryanna [Obituary], died July 7, 1920. Dziennik Dla Wszystkich, Buffalo, NY. Friday, July 9, 1920: 14(No. 187), unnumbered third page. Tom Tryniski, n.d., Old Fulton New York Post Cards / Fulton History. web. 17 May 2014. (use the date you look at the image here instead of what I used here) http://www.fultonhistory.com, digital image: Everybody's Daily (611).pdf (the full url for this image can follow this:) (http://www.fultonhistory.com/Process Small/Newspapers/Newspapers Out of NY /Buffalo NY Everybodys Daily (Polish) /Everybodys Daily (611).pdf).
Other optional references can be created, depending on your needs for both referencing the source and whether you create copies of source material that you want to reference or save. The important thing is both to cite enough to show what you have and where it came from so that you or others who need to can trace and confirm it is a good source of the material. If you create/save an image of the obituary itself as opposed to the full page source, you can label the image as I did (for example) DDW_07091920_MaryannaJanusObituary.jpg [which is simply a notational system I am using for newspaper articles, creating a unique letter combination based on the newspaper's name (in this case, DDW is the three letter combination of first letters of each word in the paper's name, and I have no other newspapers I have saved so far with that combination; should I have already had a DDW as a combination in my system for a different newspaper's name, I would create a different combination to indicate what all Dziennik Dla Wszytkich papers would be, perhaps by using DDW2 (and renaming all DDW files as DDW1), date of publication, and what 'view' or item I am saving. It has some parts separated by underscore marks (_) simply for readability when I look at my list of jpgs.] and also use that at the end of your citation, and noting that it's in your personal collection, so that if someone comes across the image of the obituary in your possession they can retrace that you got it from this source.
1. Images are on Tom Tryniski's Old Fulton New York Post Cards website at . Click here to return to footnote location
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