Help
There are 2 ways to find information in this newspaper collection: Browse and Search.
BROWSE
You can browse issues by date from the Academic Years view.
For each issue, you may view each page in the original layout by selecting “full page pdf”. Links are provided for viewing next/previous page and return to browse.
Selecting the “+” icon, which appears to the left of each page number, presents a list of headlines and category types for the individual items on the page
Selecting the article link displays individual articles as Adobe PDF files. Links are provided for viewing next/previous articles and return to browse.
SEARCH
You can search for particular words in the text from the search page.
- For a simple search, enter terms in the Full Text field.
- Search results may be narrowed by limiting to terms found with a specified time period, or within articles of a certain type.
Fuzzy search
As a default the search engine will look for results that exactly match your search term/s.
If you do not get many results, you may choose to do a fuzzy search instead. Fuzzy searching will find a word even if it is misspelled. It can be very useful when searching text generated using OCR software, as there are varying levels of accuracy depending on the quality of the original newspaper or microfilm. For example, a fuzzy search for Cornell will find Oornell (a surprisingly common OCR mistake).
We offer two levels of "fuzziness" — close match (slightly fuzzy) and inexact match (rather fuzzy).
PRINTING AND SAVING
You can Print or Save full pages or individual articles by using the Print or Save features with Adobe Acrobat Reader.
ADOBE READER
This site is best viewed with Adobe Reader 5.0 and higher.
CONTACT
Please email dcaps@cornell.edu with questions and comments.