{"id":3492,"date":"2025-02-28T12:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T12:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/?p=3492"},"modified":"2025-02-28T12:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T12:15:11","slug":"de-paarl-newspaper-available-in-digital-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/2025\/02\/28\/de-paarl-newspaper-available-in-digital-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"De Paarl newspaper available in Digital Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"

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F<\/span>ollowing recent\u00a0m<\/span>a<\/span>intenance in the\u00a0s<\/span>trongroom in\u00a0S<\/span>pecial\u00a0C<\/span>ollections,\u00a0a<\/span>n<\/span>\u00a0old\u00a0n<\/span>e<\/span>wspaper,\u00a0De Paarl<\/i>, was identified to be digitised\u00a0f<\/span>or preservation.<\/span>\u00a0The physical\u00a0c<\/span>opy had become\u00a0f<\/span>ragile\u00a0a<\/span>nd difficult to handle.<\/span>\u00a0The 1892 run of the\u00a0n<\/span>ewspaper was recently digitised in the Library\u00a0a<\/span>nd is hosted on\u00a0S<\/span>UNDigital\u00a0C<\/span>ollections, the Library\u2019s<\/span>\u00a0digital heritage repository.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Published by well-known\u00a0A<\/span>frikaans\u00a0f<\/span>amily\u00a0c<\/span>oncern D.F. du Toit & C<\/span>o.<\/span>\u00a0between 1883\u00a0a<\/span>nd 1898,\u00a0De Paarl<\/i>\u00a0is\u00a0a<\/span>\u00a0very\u00a0s<\/span>carce resource\u00a0a<\/span>nd\u00a0a<\/span>s\u00a0f<\/span>ar\u00a0a<\/span>s\u00a0c<\/span>an be\u00a0a<\/span>scertained, only\u00a0a<\/span>vailable in the\u00a0S<\/span>outh\u00a0A<\/span>frican\u00a0N<\/span>ational Library in part.<\/span>\u00a0The publication\u00a0a<\/span>lso\u00a0a<\/span>ppeared infrequently,\u00a0e<\/span>specially during the initial\u00a0y<\/span>ears of publication.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The resource offers\u00a0a<\/span>\u00a0f<\/span>ascinating look\u00a0a<\/span>t\u00a0e<\/span>veryday life in\u00a0a<\/span>\u00a0s<\/span>mall town in the Western\u00a0C<\/span>ape before the 20th\u00a0c<\/span>entury\u00a0a<\/span>nd\u00a0c<\/span>overs\u00a0n<\/span>ational\u00a0a<\/span>nd\u00a0e<\/span>ven international\u00a0n<\/span>ews of the time.<\/span>\u00a0Regular\u00a0c<\/span>olumns report on\u00a0a<\/span>gricultural\u00a0a<\/span>uctions, legal\u00a0m<\/span>atters, the\u00a0a<\/span>rrival of\u00a0m<\/span>ail\u00a0a<\/span>nd\u00a0e<\/span>ven reports lost livestock.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Digitising the\u00a0f<\/span>ragile\u00a0n<\/span>ewspaper has been\u00a0a<\/span>\u00a0c<\/span>hallenge\u00a0a<\/span>nd\u00a0c<\/span>are has been taken to digitally\u00a0e<\/span>nhance the PDF\u00a0f<\/span>iles\u00a0a<\/span>nd improve readability.<\/span>\u00a0The\u00a0c<\/span>ollection\u00a0c<\/span>an be\u00a0a<\/span>ccessed\u00a0a<\/span>t\u00a0https:\/\/digital.<\/span>lib.<\/span>s<\/span>u<\/span>n<\/span>.a<\/span>c<\/span>.z<\/span>a<\/span>\/handle\/10019.<\/span>2\/21351<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Author: Mimi Seyffert-Wirth<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following recent\u00a0maintenance in the\u00a0strongroom in\u00a0Special\u00a0Collections,\u00a0an\u00a0old\u00a0newspaper,\u00a0De Paarl, was identified to be digitised\u00a0for preservation.\u00a0The physical\u00a0copy had become\u00a0fragile\u00a0and difficult to handle.\u00a0The 1892 run of the\u00a0newspaper was recently digitised in the Library\u00a0and is hosted on\u00a0SUNDigital\u00a0Collections, the Library\u2019s\u00a0digital heritage repository. Published by well-known\u00a0Afrikaans\u00a0family\u00a0concern D.F. du Toit & Co.\u00a0between 1883\u00a0and 1898,\u00a0De Paarl\u00a0is\u00a0a\u00a0very\u00a0scarce resource\u00a0and\u00a0as\u00a0far\u00a0as\u00a0can be\u00a0ascertained, only\u00a0available in the\u00a0South\u00a0African\u00a0National Library in part.\u00a0The publication\u00a0also\u00a0appeared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9tu3H-Uk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3534,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492\/revisions\/3534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}