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Victorian/Edwardian Newspapers & Periodicals

  • 26-08-2010 12:28pm
    #1
    brian1991
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 222 ✭✭


    Hi, I currently have some old newspapers and periodicals which are over one hundred years old:

    News of the World from 1891
    Comic Cuts from 1891
    Daily Telegraph from 1904
    Daily Star from 1908

    Does anyone know if these are worth anything? More importantly, would any museums be interested in storing them? They are very fragile, but I want to preserve them. Should I get them scanned (if they survive) or something else? Are these newspapers archived somewhere, maybe on microfilm?

    Thanks,
    Brian


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  • #2
    Morlar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


    Personally I would scan/photograph them for archive purposes. I do not think museums would necessarily be interested and as 3 of the titles are still going (iirc) they should have their own editions archived ( though you never know they could have missing editions). The comic cuts one is possibly not archived.

    Re value - they could be If any of them have content related to say, the boer war, or related to Ireland / british army in Ireland or pre-war articles about dreadnoughts /wright brothers that sort of thing. Anything historical of that period could increase value.


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