Placerville, California was the center of the California Gold Rush. Some of these mid-nineteenth century newspapers are now online. To get your history online, look at our Services Page for pricing information. Technology to create, disseminate, and store information is being created at an ever increasing pace. Newspapers today have the ability to create their paper completely digitally.
Larger papers have the ability to archive their text files in a fully searchable format.
Some have the ability to store their photos in a digital archive. Some offer the world access to their text archive on their website. Nearly all newspapers preserve past issues on 35mm microfilm. Most have a clipping file that has not had new material added since the online text archive system went into use. Today more newspapers are wondering if they should continue to invest in the creation of microfilm when the images could be put on CD, DVD, or hard disk.