Historical issues “The Danish Pioneer” are now available online as part of New Digital Library of Danish American Newspapers and Journals
The Museum of Danish America in Elk Horn, Iowa, working together with the Danish American Archive and Library in Blair, Nebraska and the Danish Immigrant Archive – Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa – has created and is maintaining a Digital Library of Danish American Newspapers and Journals.
The library is now available to view at the Museum of Danish America’s website www.danishmuseum.org. Click on the “Online Media” drop down menu, and then next click on the term, “Digital Library of Danish-American Newspapers and Journals” towards the bottom of the drop down list. You’ll find yourself at the landing page of this new resource.
After clicking on “Browse The Archive” and scrolling down to the bottom of the various listed newspapers and journals, you will find “Den Danske Pioneer” with precious searchable issues of the historic newspaper preserved from 1872 through its 140th anniversary in 2012. The newspapers are categorized in decades, for example, 1870 – 1879, 1880 – 1889, 1890 – 1899 all the way to 1990 – 1999, 2000 – 2009, 2010 – 2019 (with room for more in the future).
“The Danish Pioneer”, which is the oldest Danish-American newspaper in North America celebrating its 142nd anniversary in 2014, was founded in 1872 in Omaha, Nebraska and today is published just outside Chicago.
Den Danske Pioneer’s readers now along with scholars, researchers and readers all over the world can access the historic Danish-American newspapers that were slowly deteriorating in their print formats in archival collections. For example, this will make genealogy research easier. If you type in a name under “Simple Search”, you can see which issues that person or subject was featured with the name being highlighted in yellow. For translations, use translate.google.com.
In addition, the library includes over forty scrapbooks put together by the great 20th Century Danish heroic tenor Lauritz Melchior. Digitization and hosting is through Northern Micrographics Corporation of La Crosse, Wisconsin. Funding for the first phase of the project has been provided by the A.P. Møller and Chastine Mc-Kinney Møller Foundation in Copenhagen. Two additional phases are anticipated in this project for important Danish-American archival collections.
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