Existing comment:
From the onset of World War I, newspapers provided the public with a steady stream of war front and home front coverage. Sometimes accurate, sometimes conjecture, these headlines and front pages demonstrate the challenges of reporting in real time and often stand in contrast to the historical events on this timeline. The images were drawn principally from World War History: Daily Records and Comments as Appeared in American and Foreign Newspapers, 1914-1926, a 400-volume, 80,000-page set, assembled after the war under the direction of Otto Spengler, owner of a newspaper clipping service. Its fragile pages are currently being digitized and will join a wealth of other World War I era newspapers already accessible through the Library of Congress's website, including in "Chronicling America," a database containing more than eleven million newspaper pages from across the United States. These online resources supplement the microfilm and paper collections of the Library -- one of the largest newspaper collections in the world. |